biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Locust Blossoms
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, June 6, 1877
Brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Studies of locust blossoms in watercolor, center; below, studies in graphite of horse-chestnut leaves; above, studies in graphite of apple blossoms. Verso: sweet pea; marshmallow leaves.
Martyrdom of St. Andrew
Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875, 1825–50
Pen and brown ink, black chalk on cream laid paper, lined
Drawing

In a spacious Roman hall, three men are raising the cross with the Apostle. Meanwhile, a soldier is trying to corral an excited crowd at left, and the praetor and two more soldiers watch the scene in the background.
Stage Design, Palace Interiors
, early 19th century
Pen and ink, brush and sepia and bistre on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of long decorated hall with columns, monuments, and garlands.
Design for a Fountain
, 1780
Pen and ink, brush and grey washes on paper
Drawing

Elevation of a fountain, composed of three nudes female figures grasping large vases from which water flows. One figure is seen en face, the others in lost profile. The group is on a low base rising above two steps.
Clouds over Mountains
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1844
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of distant clouds over a mountain range that cast dark shadows on the terrain below. Loosely rendered, much of this mountain range is obscured by the billowing cloud bank above. 

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely-rendered view of four trees grouped together on a riverbank or slope of a hill that descends from right to left.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: woven

Yellow trimming fragment in a design of four-petal flowers separated by linear motifs; picot edges.
Fragment
, 17th century
metallic on silk Technique: bobbin lace, metallic

Fragment has a design of a curving stem with leaves and borders of large and small scallops in silver on white silk thread.
Title Page
Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783, 1775-1780
Etching on paper
Print

Lidded vase with three claw feet. The vase has a finial and a fluted lid with an acanthus leaf pattern at its rim. The vase has a wide belly on which is printed the title of the series. On the side of the vase are cornucopia filled with grapes, pears, apples, pinecones, and leaves; these terminate at the base of the vase, merging with the feet. The vase is elevated on a pedestal on which is printed the place of publication, and is set in a garden, with indication of rocks, trees, and a trellis behind. The plate is signed but not numbered.
Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Page printed with two plates. The left plate is the title plate of the series, with the text printed at the top of the plate. Below the title is the top of a door, with a richly sculpted pediment that includes a sculpted portrait bust, a vase, an anguiped, a mascaron, scrolls, and brackets. The right plate depicts a door with a divided design with an elaborate sculpted group of angels with horns in clouds, carrying a portrait medallion. The doors and doorframes are decorated with rocaille motifs including lozenges, rosettes, lamb tongue, helmets, cartouches, acanthus leaves, and mythological scenes. The plates are signed and numbered; a graphite inscription below the plate on the right indicates that the design was for the doors of the guard room of the Elector of Cologne.
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800–1825
Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper
Drawing

Plants in part like calyces and rosettes composed of seven boughs with blossoms alternate upon a crest border. A row of obliquely disposed lace ovoids with beads in the intervals between them and scallops are shown at the bottom.
Eagle Lake, Mt. Desert
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, August 23, 1856
Graphite and chalk on brown-grey paper
Drawing

The shores of lake at right and at rear, beneath a mountain range. Three rowboats on the water.
Ceiling Design
Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679, ca.1660–1713
Etching on paper
Print

Design for a square or rectangular ceiling with a detailed view of one end. The center is blank and framed by a molding. The border is decorated with cartouches with figures, winged putti, mask (mascaron), shell, festoon of leaves, ribbons, c-scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), and foliate scrolls. The plate is signed and numbered.
Plan d'un batiment de quatre toises de face
A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768, ca. 1762
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural plan for the ground floor and first floor of a building. The building is two rooms deep with a staircase. The ground floor rooms include a boutique and dining room and the first floor includes a shop, bedroom and cabinet, along with smaller adjacent spaces between the rooms. The plan is framed in black with a scale and the title lettered below. The print is signed by the designer in the lower left corner with the plate mark in the lower right corner.
Border Design with Cross-Section
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1785-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Border design with bands of molding and its cross section at the right. From top to bottom, the molding ornamentation consists of: scrolling acanthus leaves, bead and leaf course, a planar panel, and lamb's tongue. The plate is signed and numbered.
View of the Sabaneta, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 23, 1857
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing two views of the Sabaneta, a wet, low-lying, and marshy area to the east of the town of Babahoyo in Ecuador. At left, tall trees of all kinds on either bank are covered in vegetation. Small plants visible in foreground. At right, a vertically-oriented sketch shows a similarly lush and wooded landscape.
One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration of a horizontal panel
Francesco Bedeschini, Italian, 1675-1699
Pen, brush, sepia
Drawing

The drawing has two borderlines, the background bearing horizontal lines. Intended to be engraved
Frieze with Psyche and Love
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1813–18
Pen and ink, brush and brown wash on paper
Drawing

On verso: internal view of church
Design for a Motif off a Woven or Embroidery Fabric
, 1825–1850
Graphite, compass, brush and yellow watercolor, brush and red paint on paper
Drawing

In a Romanesque-Gothic style. A kind of Gothic window rose bordered by scallops and Gothic traceries. Three leaves are shown on top. The obverse yellow wash. Verso: Rough sketch of Gothic traceries in graphite.
LES PANIERS DE CHASSE
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759, 1743
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Plate 9 of a series of 23 prints featuring monkeys acting as humans in various figural scenes. In outdoor setting, a figure of a monkey in human costume riding on the back of a hunting dog. He holds the dog's leash in his right hand and a dead bird in his left. At the dog's side is a lined basket for storing the catch.
Title Page
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1772–77
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page from a series of six prints depicting of designs for chinoiserie ornamental pendant trophies. The title is lettered within a fire screen, hanging in the middle of the trophy, at a slight right angle. The trophy includes a screen, fans, bellows and a footed bowl hanging from a ribbon with leaves and flowers. The plate is signed and numbered.
The Hermit and the Virgin
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Bistre pen and ink on paper
Drawing

The hermit is in the foreground, kneeling, facing right. The Virgin and the Child appear above on a cloud, silhouetted against the full moon. Enclosed in a framing line.
An Old Woman Spinning
Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816, 1810–30
Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, white chalk on rough gray paper
Drawing

Old woman at work spinning.
Study of Thistles
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929, ca. 1890
Brush and oil on black paper
Drawing

Vertical sheet depicting a stalk of thistles with five blossoms and leaves.
Samples
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA, ca. 1915
silk, metal thread Technique: plain compound satin

Reproduction textile samples adopted from a Lucchese design in the collection of the Cooper Union Museum. Samples (b/g) of black, blue, green, purple, and taupe with gold weft with a pattern of serpentine branches with ogive blossoms and Chinese-inspired monsters and senmurvs between serpentines.
Pleated mourning fan
Duvelleroy, Paris, France, founded 1827, 1885–90
Silk crepe leaf, painted wood guards and sticks inlaid with black spangles, guards cut à jour, horn washer and metal loop at the rivet, silk ribbon

Pleated mourning fan. Black silk crepe leaf. Black painted wood guards and sticks are inlaid with round black spangles. Guards cut à jour in a strapwork design of interlacing ovals and hexagons. Horn washer and metal loop at the rivet with black silk ribbon.
Tiraz embroidery
, 11th century
linen, silk Technique: embroidered on plain weave

Arabic inscription embroidered in red silk on a natural linen ground. Translation: Bismillah ir-Rahman - In the name of God the Merciful.
Textile
, early 18th century
silk Technique: 8-harness regular satin weave plus two supplementary wefts with a variety of surface effects

Curving lace-like bands in ivory with entwined floral vines in green, salmon, and ivory superimposed on a patterned yellow-on-yellow background.
Textile
, late 18th century
silk Technique: damassé (10-harness satin plus 9/1 twill with paired warps)

Fragment of a large scale symmetrical pattern reversed on the center line of the textile. An urn with flowers placed in offset rows connected by a curving vine (almost an ogee framework) having grape vines and heads of wheat. Background is a dull salmon and the pattern is yellow twill. Intact selvage on right side.
Etuit de Repetition
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after, 1703
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An ornament print featuring roundels with grotesque motifs (intertwining scrolling leaves, foliage, strapwork, human, and animal forms), with cartouches, scrolling leaves, fleurons, mascarons (masks), birds, dolphins, and diaper patterns. The plate is signed and numbered.
La danseuse de corde
Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848, 1785–90
cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
Textile

Scenes of rural pastimes including a shepherd, a woman feeding chickens, aristocrats dining in an arbor and a group of traveling players that includes a tightrope walker. In red on white.
Vase
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933, ca. 1900
Favrile glass

Yellow glass with maroon pattern.  Inverted egg shape on small circular foot.
Colombes et sangliers
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815, ca. 1816–18
cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave foundation
Textile

Framed scenes, one a horizontal rectangle showing a putti in a chariot driven by a team of boars, the other a diamond showing doves feeding from abowl with vases, putti, masks, and herms, all on a background of intersecting circles. In deep purple red.
Ornament, Christmas tree
, 1850–99
Sugar and cotton

Birdcage of white mesh with pink candy base and top.
Needle case
, after 1838
cotton, linen Technique: printed fabrics, stitched

Folding oblong needle case made of seven different printed cottons; four pockets, one with a piece of wool for needles. In one pocket a small semicircle of newspaper dated 1838.
Betrayal of Christ, from The Engraved Passion
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528, 1508
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Tumtultuous, nocturnal, outdoor scene: two men fight in the foreground, one wielding a sword and the other a club. To the right, two men embrace, while soldiers brandish weapons and torches behind them, and one raises a rope as if to capture one of the standing figures, Christ. In the backgound, one figure chases another in a hilly landscape. Signed 1508 AD.
Escutcheon
, ca. 1700
Tin

Pierced and repoussé plate with acanthus and palmette design.
Sketch of a Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on tracing paper
Drawing

Sketch of a face, framed by hair or cloth, looking halfway to the right.
Old Persian Carving in Brass
Harry Fenn, American, 1845–1911, 1886
Pen and black ink on paperboard
Drawing

An ovoid-shaped vessel, probably a flask of some sort, with a small opening at the top.  The upper portion has bands of carving with figure and animal motifs.
Study for "Diana and Her Attendants among the Constellations"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1894
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of a female nude figure reclining.
Short coat
, early 19th century
silk Technique: hand drawn starch resist (tsutsugaki), dyed, on plain weave

Silk short coat with large character (probably a guild mark) on center back, with very deep simplified fret border below; two small marks, one above the other, on each lapel. All reserved in white on a deep blue ground. Lining of stone blue crêpe with repeat of large, obliquely placed rectangle showing dragon in clouds, roaring tiger in bamboo.
The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia
Nathaniel Currier, American, 1813–88, ca. 1840
Lithograph Support: smooth white wove paper
Print

Horizontal format; three adults and two children stand before the crypt, outside of which are four obelisk monuments. Cunningham no. 6112.
View of Santi Giovanni e Paolo a Celio, Rome
Jacob van den Ulft, dutch, 1627 - 1689, ca. 1650
Pen and ink, brush and wash on laid paper
Drawing

The apse of the church appears at the left. Beside it, to the right, a street runs under two arches. Right, a low mound, ruin and flank of another church. Framing line.
Fragment
, late 16th–early 17th century
silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask

Gray-blue damask with large symmetrical design of a vase with two heavy stems framing a curved octagon with a stylized palmette inside. Highly stylized vine and leaf pattern with elaborate interlacing. Vase, vine and branches filled with a diaper pattern. Broad satin selvages striped in salmon and yellow.
A woman drawing
Cooper Union Art School, ca. 1860
Pencil and grey and white washes on brown paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. A woman, probably a Cooper Union female student, seen turned three quarters to the right, seated at a slant-top table, drawing. Verso: outline pencil sketch of a nude youth with arms upraised, seen from the back (from a cast).
Wall tile
, 18th century
Tin-enamelled earthenware

Square tile with decoration in roundel, in manganese purple, of Christ restoring sight to the blind man; small floral motifs in spandrels.
Sketch for a Mural
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on green paper
Drawing

Meeting of frontiersmen and Native Americans at edge of woods, mountains beyond.
Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1810-1820
Pen, ink. Obv: with ink, sepia wash. Paper.

Obverse: Compare Vaselli, Vasi etc. pl. 56. The center of the ribbon flutters upwards. Reverse: corner view of a room with wall paintings.
Fragment
, 17th century
Medium; silk, metallic Technique: plain weav with supplementary weft e

Diagonal flowers and leaves in green and silver
Border
, 1750–1800
silk embroidery, cotton foundation Technique: embroidered with chain stitch on plain weave

Border of fine white cotton embroidered with multicolored silk in chain stitch showing small scattered flowers; small and large floral borders at top and bottom. Deeply scalloped edge, buttonhole stitched in blue.
Fringe
, 18th century
gilt foil on a silk core Technique: woven

Gold fringe with a plain-woven heading and a skirt of looped and twisted threads.
Five Lansquenets and an Oriental on Horseback
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528, 1495–96
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Six soldiers in a landscape; three wear mantles, and a fourth, right, leans on his halberd. Left, one armed with a lance, walks beside a Turk on horseback.
Below Chestnut Street Bridge
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926, 1884
Etching in black ink on paper
Print

Sailing craft at anchor in still water. Low horizon and sunset sky.
Plate
Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory, Swiss, established 1763, ca. 1770–1780
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
plate

Plates. only one Border in low relief. Decoration Landscape in centre and on border three small trees in colors.
Floral field and border
, 1780–1815
White on glazed paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Two and a half repeats of an undulating vine with stylized leaf groups, alternating, in the dip of each undulation.
Commemorative ribbon
, 1904
silk Technique: printed

Fragment of a ribbon commemorating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis in 1904. Ribbon has vertical stripes of blue, red, white and off-white. Circles outlined in blue appear at regular intervals and read: "Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis 1904."
Dites Merci
Meillier et Cie, ca. 1798
cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
Textile

"Dites Merci" country scenes. Printed in red on white. From the factory of J. D. Meillier et Cie. (1792-1826). Cf. Clouzot, Histoire de la Manufacture de Jouy, etc., Paris, 1928, pl. 52.
Cap streamers
, mid-18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace of Binche style with Binche ground

Design of birds and a serpentine band ornamented with floral forms and large flowers.
''The Hingham''
, 1810–30
Block printed on handmade paper
Sidewall

Alternating vignettes, children playing and a village scene, between vertical decorative borders, all in blues and white against a light blue background.
Tsuba
, 1748–50
Tetsu

Manji tsunagi: a conventional link pattern or diaper of "Manji" [the clock-wise swastika, a symbol of eternal happiness]
Brooch
, mid-19th century
Stone mosaic, onyx, gold

Design of flowers in mosaic, set in onyx and mounted in a gold frame.
Band fragment
, 12th–13th century
linen, silk Technique: tapestry weave

Small fragmentary tapestry band with interlaced ovals containing a central motif, perhaps a running hare. Guard borders above and below.
Design for Writing Table #42018 of Mahogany, Decorated in Color
A.N. Davenport Co., January 24, 1906
Graphite on thin cream paper
Drawing

Large rectangular table top with convex central drawer flanked by small drawer on either side; raised on 4 straight tapering legs; at center of rear of top, small rectangular cabinet with niche below flanked by 2 irregularly shaped compartments with small drawers; table decorated throughout with Neo-classical ornament.
Thirty-Six Selected Haynes Stereoscopic Views of the Yellowstone National Park
Frank Jay Haynes, American, 1853 – 1921, 1881–88
cream paperboard
Box of stereoscopic views

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Le Jouer de Cornemuse (The Bagpipe Player)
, 1780–1800
cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave
valance

Shaped valance with a design of a seated bagpiper and a shepherdess under a canopy. A sheep (?) peers around a fence at them. Also, trees and a basket of flowers. In two reds and lavender. The valance is lined with linen plain and has a heading of woven tape. The back is partially faced with the same fabric (pieced).
Design for Oak Round Table and Chair
A.N. Davenport Co., 1900–05
Graphite ochre color pencil on thin, cream tracing paper
Drawing

Round molded taqble raised on column-like support sitting on molded octagonal base with four splayed legs with brass feet on casters.  To the right of the table design, a chair with a trapezoidal seat and a vase splat has straight side rails extending into raked back legs; front legs are straight.  On the sides, legs are joined by stretchers; a single stretcher attaches horizontally across center.
Sampler
Unknown, ca. 1800
silk, cotton, linen Technique: satin stitch embroidery with withdrawn element work

Embroidered sampler has a deep floral vine border in colored silks. Rectangular openwork design of a double headed eagle flanked by bulls. Initials BJP incorporated into eagle motif. Just above are squares of openwork with a variety of needle made filling stitches. Rectangle on the right has an openwork treatment for an alphabet.
Textile
, 1780–1800
linen warp, cotton weft Technique: relief printeded on plain weave

Reserve print. Lion being attacked by dogs and a hunter with a spear. In red on natural.
Border
, 1790–1810
Block-printed on handmade paper

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Commemorative textile
, early 19th century
cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave

Portrait of the English King George III alternates with the English shield and crown. In a straight repeat. Brown, blue, two reds, faded yellow.