biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
One of a Pair of Candlesticks
Richard Hodd & Son, London, England, active. 1872 – ca. 1880, 1878
silver
candlestick

A) Square base with bead molding and anthemion motifs on corners. Urn-shaped candleholder with four repoussé figures of Victory with palm leaf and laurel wreath above flower soap. B) Removable bobêche.
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: bead and leaf course, a guilloche of ribbon with cabled bead and leaf and a rosette with leaves in the center, lamb's tongue with leaf-bud darts, bead courses framing a planar panel, and laurel leaf. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for an Earring
, 1820–30
Pen and black ink, brush and gray, green, yellow watercolor on light green paper
Drawing

Jewelry design for an earring. A ring with two slopes, a pointed oval fastened to it. Below it a knot on top of an oval green diamond, framed by a row of beads and two laurel branches which are fastened below by a ring. Hanging are three drops: green diamonds with a framing row of beads.
Fragments
, 4th–5th century
Warp; Z-spun linen. Wefts; Z-spun lunen, S-spun wools. Technique: slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping

A: Stylized flower or leaf within a circle
B. Duck within a circle
View of Venice, Italy
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a gondola on a canal in Venice.
Palm Tree Crowns, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May and June 1865
Graphite on gray wove paper
Drawing

Three stacked botanical sketches of the crowns of Jamaican palm trees, which radiate fronds in every direction. The uppermost grows scant fronds, with many dead ones hanging below, while the lower two trees are more fully formed.
Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century, 1729–68
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Design for an asymmetrical cartouche framed by c-scrolls, palm leaves, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), batwings, foliate branches, sword, trumpet, and spears with textiles or banners. The plate is signed.
Design for a carving frame for a back panel of a coach
Unknown, 1725–50
Brush and gray wash, pen and ink, black chalk on paper
Drawing

A wheel and the left half of the frame is shown.  Scrollwork and rocaille.
Child Supporting an Object or Structure
, 1750–1800
Red crayon on paper
Drawing

Child with lowered head depicted from slightly below with legs in profile and upper body in three quarter profile, turning left to support something.
Peep-Show Print
, mid-18th century
Engraving and brush and wash on paper
Print

Peep-show print
A Bouquet of Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1760
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Fourth plate from a series of designs for bouquets of flowers. In the center a bouquet of flowers, ten flowers, roses, and daffodils on their stems with leaves, buds, and smaller flowers. The plate is signed.
Woman and Man with Two Children
, 17th–early 18th century
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Woman and man with two children.
Portrait of a Young Woman in a Ball Gown
Surugue, French, active 18th c., 1746
Engraving on paper
Print

Woman in a Ball Habit.
Ephemera
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1883
Printed in black ink on paper

Above, article clipping from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, on American etchers. Jesus on the cross, with giant white rose hanging next to him.
Title Page
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762, 1737
Etching on laid paper
Print

The title of the series is inscribed on an architectural plate, with cornice detail at the top, on which are two winged putti. The kneeling putto at the right holds a branch of oak leaves to the mouth of a stag, while the putto on the left supports the stag head and stag skin. Between the antlers of the stag's head is an oval, in which is carved an engraved ornamental urn. The plate is lettered and numbered.
Figures
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1881
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Partial sketch of three figures.
Lake Winnipesaukee from Wolfeboro Neck, Looking West
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, August 30, 1856
Graphite and black crayon on grey paper
Drawing

Tree lined shore in foreground, with mountains are opposite shore.
Design for the Embroidery of a Waistcoat
, 1780–1800
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

A border stripe is shown at left with a ribbon loosely surrounding a rising thin pole. Two kinds of flower boughs fastened together by bow knots rise in intertwined waves. Three boughs are shown. On verso: a circle in graphite.
Sidewall
, 1840s
Block-printed

Front: Vertical rectangle, a full width, giving one repeat of vignetted scene in framework of trees. A lake, with bridge across middle distance and castles beyond; house in foreground, on left, and boat full of red-coated soldiers being drawn to shore.

Back: Watercolor of an interior setting. "n-w-65" is marked on back next to watercolor.
Design for the Embroidered Border and Pocket of a Waistcoat
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, ca. 1785
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Three bunches of flowers are shown at the bottom, connected by sprays consisting of leaves and beads. Two flower boughs connected by bead chains at the obliquely rising left edge. Yellow and black stripes are at the hem. The bottom edge of the yellow-edged pocket shows triangular scallops with bead plants in the intervals. A paillette is to be showon on each scallop.
Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of William Russell, First Duke of Bedford
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England, 1737–38
Pen and ink, brush and wash, black chalk, red crayon on paper
Drawing

Design for a frame to surround the portrait of William Russell, First Duke of Bedford. A figure of a child at left holding a sword sits beside a crown and before a pedestal upon which an ovoidal frame stands. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.
Three Chair Designs
André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791, 1849–66
Etching on paper
Print

Three chair designs with different style legs and frames from rounded to rectangular. The plate is signed with the printmaker, publisher, and original designer, and numbered.
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Matthew the Evangelist
Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572, ca. 1565
Engraving on paper
Print

The angel dictates to Saint Matthew. Two putti hold festoons. Monogram of Merica.
Elevation of a Theater, Venice
Cesare Recanatini, Italian, 1823–1893, ca. 1860
Pen and ink with gray, sepia, and blue washes on cream-colored paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Two and a half storied building with small columned porch on ground floor. Statues in niches flank a window set in a shallow arched recess above.
Design for a Pediment
, 1725–1750
Black chalk, pen and ink on paper
Drawing

The right half of a broken pediment, having in the center a disk with the sun and rays.
Rocaille Arch and Fountain with a Vase and Sea Horses
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775, 1743-1763
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Fountain seen through a rocaille archway. The fountain in the center features a colonnaded alcove with sea horses above, from whose mouths spout water, and topped with a vase with a woman. The plate is signed.
Elevation of a Church Flanked by Two Houses
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Elevation of a Church Flanked by Two Houses.
Frame or Cornice Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1785-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Frame or cornice design with, from sight edge to back edge, leaf lamb tongue, ribbon twist, bound oak leaf and acorn, ribbon twist, and leaf lamb tongue ornamentation. The plate is signed and numbered.
Icebergs off Cape St. John, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June–July 1859
Oil and graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Seascape and landscape sketches showing three views of icebergs off the coast of Cape St. John on the island of Newfoundland in Canada. Along the upper margin, three icebergs float on dark water in front of the mountainous, brownish-purple coastline of Cape St. John and below a warm twilight sky. Stretching across the composition at center, a loose oil sketch shows the silhouette of a craggy iceberg along the horizon below a fiery red twilight sky, and viewed across dark blue ocean waters. At lower right, a smaller sketch shows a roughly pyramidal iceberg floating on dark waters in front of a warm, peachy sky.
Designs for Clock Cases
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Designs for two clock cases decorated with ornament motifs including urns, pinecone, torches, winged putti, mascaron, sphynxes, rinceaux, eagles, drapery, and floral bouquet. The plate is signed and numbered.
Designs for Firearms Ornament
de La Collombe, French, active 1702 – 1739, 1730
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Designs for flintlocks and flintlock components alongside various designs for firearms ornament, featuring mascarons, animals, birds, trophies, shells, heraldry, the Royal coat of arms of France, cornucopia, mythological figures, strapwork, fleurs-de-lys, crowns, fronds, leaves, and sprigs. The plate is signed and dated.
Sidewall - fragment
, 1890–1900
Machine-printed

Small seven petalled flower in bright red, each on a scroll-like stem. Stems cross; at points of intersection there is a brown dot. Leaves and stems are outlined in white while the flower has a dark brown line. Printed in bright red, brown, white and gray-green on gray-brown field.
Sampler
Amalie Forberger, September 16, 1806
silk embroidery, linen foundation Technique: stem, satin, and double running stitches on plain weave

Alphabets, numerals and wreaths with initials, names and memorial pieces and the inscription "Gestickt von Amalie Forberger, Meissen, den 16, Sept br 1806."  (Embroidery of Amalie Forberger, Meissen, 16 September 1806.
Design for a Cartouche Evoking the Season of Autumn and The Chase
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761, 1740
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

Clusters of grapes, leaves, and gourds surround a cartouche with pedestal elements on either side. A top the cartouche a dog grabs the leg of a boar that is spewing water. At bottom left are two dogs. At bottom center is a grotesque mask.
Chasse with Saints and Angels
, 16th century
gold, metal, enamel, wood
reliquary

Two horizontal rectangular plaques (a, b) with three cast figural busts attached; one cast figure removed from plaque a.  Two vertical rectangular plaques (c, d) with triangular tops; incised decoration depicting standing robed figure holding book(?).  Holes for attachment to casket-shaped chasse core (e).  Parts a/d) gilt worn; losses to inlaid champleve enamel.
Sailboats
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1881–1883
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of three sailboats and a rowboat beached along the shore.
Button
, late 18th century
Copper

1931-59-217: Flat circular button with band of pierced ornament...
Arabesque Panel Design
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1775–88
Etching on paper
Print

An arabesque panel design featuring two women in the center in classical dress, supporting a large basket of flowers and foliage above their heads, while standing on a plinth and flanked by two vases (ewers). The base is supported by scrolling leaves (rinceaux), festoons of leaves, fleurons, and rosettes. The plate is signed and numbered.
Box
, late 18th century

Wooden box with wedgwood round inset.
Watch-tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, New York
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, February 28, 1874
Wood engraving printed in black ink on paper
Print

Upright page containing five scenes:  At top is the interior of an observation room with a seated man in uniform looking through a telescope; at center below is a view of a circular staircase and a platform with a large bell; at lower left is a view of the whoe tower; and at lower right is a man ringing a bell and a fire engine going through a street during the night;
Title Page
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731, 1716-19
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page with the lettering framed by a cartouche with grotesque motifs including mascarons (masks), cartouches, putti, shells, dragons, flaming torches, lions, palm leaves, fluting, c-scrolls, palmette, foliate scrolls, fleurons, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), festoon of leaves, and a diaper and rosette pattern. The plate is signed.
Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support a circular medallion with coat of arms)
, ca. 1700
Red crayon, blotted and wash on paper
Drawing

Very similar to drawing in -1783. Four female figures surround a circular medallion decorated with a coat of arms, a tower between two stars. Four putti support the medallion.
The House that Jack Built
Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915, 1886
Machine-printed paper
Sidewall

Children's paper showing scenes from the nursery rhyme "The House that Jack Built". Vertical rectangle of full width, giving one repeat. In center, seated in high-backed Gothic chair, the Priest all Shaven and Shorn, before whom kneel the Maiden all Forlorn and the Man all Tattered and Torn. Other elements of the rhyme incorporated in the design. Printed in greens and reds on pale yellow ground. Designed in the Aesthetic style: elements all very flat with little sense of depth, and shapes are heavily outlined.
Panel
, ca. 1700
linen Technique: embroidery with open work on plain weave

Horizontal rectangular panel of white linen embroidery and open work on a sheer white plain weave ground.  Motifs include vases of flowers, cupids with arrows, ships, roosters.  On the center line, two mermen with tridents riding sea monsters flanking a domed building.
Sugar Tongs
William Harrison I, ca. 1760
silver
Sugar Nippers

Scissors-type nippers, the arm composed of interlocking scrolls, terminating in shell-shaped ends. Circular swing-joint at center; engraved. Scroll handles with shaped finger loops.
Napkin
, 1645
linen Technique: 4&1 satin damask

White damask napkin has a vertically symmetrical field filled with crab, seal and various fish plus the coat of arms of the parents of Grovestins and Camminga. Side borders have a series of nautical symbols. Bottom border has mermaids, fish and the moon. Top border has mermaids, mermen and the sun. 

Lucia Van Grovestins married Taco Van Camminga in 1638. Their names in the inscription is followed by the maiden name of each of their mothers.
Textile
, 17th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: 8-harness satin with continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft

Fragment of a dress fabric with solid stripes in two tones of blue and stripes of brocaded metallic gold. Gold-patterned stripes have plant motifs and a chinoiserie pattern.
Chef de piece
Louis Bire et Verdonnet, 1790–99
cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave with blocks for red and black

Floral stripe alternate with twining stripe. Red and black on natural.
Fragment
, 16th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (continuous braid-like)

Fragment with one semicircular rounded point in a geometric design.
St. Christopher
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528, 1511
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Vertical rectangle. The saint is shown crossing a stream, carrying the infant Christ on his shoulders. He moves toward the right, and turns his head back to the left.
Portrait of James Thomas Brudenell
D. J. Pound, British, active ca. 1860, ca. 1860
Engraving on paper
Print

Half length portrait of James Thomas Brudenell, Seventh Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), shown facing slightly to the left. He wears full military uniform, his gloves in his left hand and hat in his right. He wears mutton-chop whiskers and mustache.
Drapery Study
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on tracing paper
Drawing

Female figure reclining to the right, head up and hands in a praying attitude.
stick
Henry Rado, American, 1859–1921, late 19th century
Bakelite, gold

Tapering polished black stick with thimble-shaped gold repoussé head.
Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, Obverse: 1812-1813. Reverse: 1814
Pen and brown ink and brown wash (iron gall ink) and traces of graphite

Recto: Seated women holding paper scrolls; shown in three rows.  Verso: top left: two schematic sketches of horses, shown in profile, turned to left. Most of the lower one is drawn in a square; figures relate to proportions. Top right: head of a horse slightly obliquely shown. Bottom left: the head of a horse is turned towards right; the mouth is opened. Part of the body and of the tail are shown. Bottom right: Proportional sketch of the skeleton of s horse.
Power House, Brooklyn Edison Works
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926, ca. 1924
Etching in black ink on paper
Print

View across the East River toward a large power plant, with derricks behind it. In the distance, Manhattan Bridge and the skyscrapers of New York.
Entrance to Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926, 1905
Etching on paper
Print

Vertical rectangle. Steps leading from the portico through a double arch of uneven proportion are seen in shadow. Figures ascend and descend the steps.
Textile
, late 19th century
silk Technique: compound satin

Lavander ground with white, brown, and orange fern fronds.
Design for brooch
, 1725–50
Pen, brush, sepia, green, yellow water colors. Paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Consisting of a square green diamond, round white ones, scrolls, and three green oval diamonds, hanging
Tailpiece
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, USA, ca. 1905
Pen and ink on illustration board
Drawing

A symmetrical design composed of garlands of roses, with streamers of ribbons at center.
Vüe du Vivier Vers le Cabinet
, ca. 1730-1750
Engraving on paper
Print

Horizontal rectangle. A garden with clipped topiary surrounding a reflecting pool, around which figures stroll. In the distance a casino. Inscribed below in Dutch and French.
Project for a Ceiling
, 1778
Pen and brown ink with gray wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

A glory of angels in the clouds with the Dove of the Holy Spirit in the center.
Ugolino in Prison (after Reynolds)
John Boydell, British, 1719 – 1804, 1774
Mezzotint on paper
Print

The elderly seated Ugolino is comforted by a young woman, left, while a young man faints in the arms of another. A woman weeps in the background.
Certificate in Mathematics, Cooper Union
Peter Cooper, American, 1791–1883, May 22, 1861
Engraving in black ink on paper
Print

An engraved certificate awarded by Cooper Union to William McFaul who "attended the evening course of instruction in this Institution during the term beginning October 1st 1860 and ending April 1st 1961." Vignette of the Cooper Union. Signed by Peter Cooper as President, New York, May 22, 1861.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp in a satin foundation (velvet)

Plant forms and scrolls in dull pink.
Fragment
, late 18th–early 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Brussels-style)

Fragment has a single flowerhead mainly in clothwork with some petals containing decorative fillings. Vrai droschel ground.
Panels
, 1725–50
linen, silk, gilded paper wrapped on linen thread Technique: stenciled and resist dyed; embroidered and couched

Landscape with a swirling river, fishermen's nets, river banks with trees and fences, and birds flying over distant waves - all reserved in white on a blue ground. Details embroidered in bright silk floss of orange, green, brown, black and white or couched in gold.
Bobbin Lace 3
, 17th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace
Fragment

Scrolling foliage and flowers. Straight edge.
The Annunciation, from the Life of the Virgin series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528, ca. 1506
woodcut on laid paper
Print

Vertical rectangle. Interior with scene visible through an arched window opening. The Virgin rises from behind Her reading-desk to face the angel.
Fragments
, late 16th–early 17th century
silk Technique: woven

Crowned lions on either side of a monstrance with birds,
New York Skyline – Light Buildings
Childe Hassam, American, 1859–1935, April 27, 1918
Lithograph on wove paper
Print

New York City skyline seen in bright daylight. Similar composition to "New York Skyline - Dark Buildings" (1940-76-21).
Black-and-White Mottled Bird on Tulip Stem, with Daffodils and Butterflies
, ca. 1800–1830
Pen and ink, graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Black-and-White Mottled Bird on Tulip Stem, with Daffodils and Butterflies
Study of Drapery
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Black crayon on cream laid paper
Drawing

Drapery on a figure, probably an angel.
Textile
, 19th century
cotton embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave

Design of lozenges and eight-pointed stars worked in blue cross-stitch on a white ground.
Sewing instruction book samples
, 1829
Flannel, silk ribbon, linen plain cloth

A and B: Two petticoats of white flannel bound with white silk and fitted to linen band; open skirt fastened by bows of white silk.C: Band of white flannel bound with white silk.
Ribbon
, ca. 1840
silk Technique: woven

Pale blue gauze cap ribbon with tiny allover tree pattern and white silk scalloped edge.
Border
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Binche style with snowflake ground)

Border of Binche bobbin lace in scrolling floral pattern with snowflake ground.
Collar
, late 19th century
linen Technique: needle lace with ground of loop & twist with loop and twist return

Delicate pattern of flowers and leaves with border of scallops and jours with ornamental fillings.
Picture
, early 19th century
silk Technique: printed on plain weave

Oval engraved picture of five children playing, with floral and geometric borders. In an octagonal gilt frame.
Rank badge
, mid- 19th century
silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered

Rank badge for a civil official. Embroidered silk showing a bird facing a sun disk. Ground of clouds with diagonal lines at bottom and scroll border. Seam down the center.
Cut-out
Lockwood de Forest, American, 1850–1932, 1881–90
Pierced and cut-out sheet copper foil

the rectangular sheet of thin copper with pointed borders on the side, pierced with an arrangment of triangles and flowerheads in a geometric pattern
German green glass series
Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917, ca. 1890
Mouth-blown green glass
Vase

Mouth-blown green glass with glass applications. Tall vase with ring-shaped base.
Shawl
, 19th century
cashmere wool Technique: embroidery

White Kashmir shawl with narrow border embroidered in bright silks in small "cone" pattern; trimmed with narrow silk fringe. Arranged as cape with hood, by attaching edges at one point.
Fragment
, 18th century
silk Technique: painted on tabby weave

Flowering branches with pomegranates painted in polychrome. A curved stem runs through the center.
Ornament Design with Vegetables over Shell from Livre des Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 15 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1748
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

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staircase model
, late 18th century
pear (wood), brass wire, bone

Double-revolution super-imposed staircase model.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask

Fragment of a stylized pattern of large leaves enclosing a three-quarter profile blossom.