Inigo Jones (from Inigo Jones's "The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain," 1655)

Inigo Jones (from Inigo Jones's "The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain," 1655)

Wenceslaus Hollar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Inigo Jones, half-length, seated to front, with head turned to look to right; wearing a cap and broad collar over doublet, holding a sheet of paper in his right hand; in an oval frame; tablet below; from the engraving by Robert van Voerst, after Van Dyck; illustration to Inigo Jones's 'The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inigo Jones (from Inigo Jones's "The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain," 1655)Inigo Jones (from Inigo Jones's "The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain," 1655)Inigo Jones (from Inigo Jones's "The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain," 1655)Inigo Jones (from Inigo Jones's "The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain," 1655)Inigo Jones (from Inigo Jones's "The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain," 1655)

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.