Driver, Stop, I will hire you and pay you by the hour!, from 'The coachmen in Paris,' published in Le Charivari, December 21, 1864

Driver, Stop, I will hire you and pay you by the hour!, from 'The coachmen in Paris,' published in Le Charivari, December 21, 1864

Honoré Daumier

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

They seem to be planning a conspiracy....how stupid of me to having chosen this compartment.... and there is no way of stopping the train!

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Driver, Stop, I will hire you and pay you by the hour!, from 'The coachmen in Paris,' published in Le Charivari, December 21, 1864Driver, Stop, I will hire you and pay you by the hour!, from 'The coachmen in Paris,' published in Le Charivari, December 21, 1864Driver, Stop, I will hire you and pay you by the hour!, from 'The coachmen in Paris,' published in Le Charivari, December 21, 1864Driver, Stop, I will hire you and pay you by the hour!, from 'The coachmen in Paris,' published in Le Charivari, December 21, 1864Driver, Stop, I will hire you and pay you by the hour!, from 'The coachmen in Paris,' published in Le Charivari, December 21, 1864

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.