biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
QUATUOR BAVARIAE REGIMINA IN FONTE REPRAESENTATA
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 1769
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An exterior view of a fountain representing the four Bavarian Regiments. The fountain is domed with a shell pattern and cupola topped with an armillary sphere. The dome is supported by columns, and topped with sculptures of lions, dolphins, cartouches, and festoons. The fountain features basins with dolphins, shells, Poseidon holding a trident, female figures, and urns. A verse in Latin is lettered above with the dedication in French lettered below. The plate is titled, numbered, signed, and dated.
Design for a Cornice
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a cornice decorated with ornament motifs including acanthus leaves, scrolls, palmettes. The plate is numbered.
Project for a Wall Decoration
, late 18th century
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and sepia on paper
Drawing

Right half of a framed panel with grotesques. At center, left is a partial tablet with figures.
Wooded Vale, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1865
Graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch of a heavily wooded vale in the mountains of Jamaica. In the foreground, a banana plant is visible at lower left, as well as a bamboo grove at lower right. In the middle distance, the opposite face of this ravine is visible, where a yam farm can be seen at center left. A human made structure is positioned above the farm atop the hill, highlighted in white gouache. The crest of the opposite ridge descends from left to right, giving way to a view of mountains extending to the horizon at center.
Cupids
, ca. 1880
Gold, enamel
Earrings

Both earrings have an enamel painting of a putto with flowers in a gold frame with five pendants of three lengths at the bottom.  The frame is covered wtih a design of blocks and scrolls with balls on the pendants, of hearts and flowers.  Forms a set with 1946-50-25.
A Pitcher
, 1650–1700
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and bistre wash on laid paper
Drawing

Shown side view, the spout is at right. Shaft and bottom part of the body are shaped as a shell-like leaf. The upper part of the body is fluted and shows nude figures growing from volutes. The figure in the center holds in either hand together with his neighbors' bowls from which these drink. A festoon connects the lateral volutes. The handle consists of a cornucopia, a stem and vine and a girl picking up grapes.
Front Elevation, Proposed Library Museum for J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq., New York
Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943, 1899–1900
Graphite on tracing paper
Drawing

View of pavilion facade.  Exterior with semi-circular columed, stepped portico and recessed niches filled with sculpture on either side of central doorway.  Above doorway, eyebrow window with balustrade, decorated low dome with balustrade motif on top. Suggestions of porches left and right of pavilion with trees behind.
One of a set of designs for a title page and decoration of a horizontal panel
, 1675–1700
Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

The panel has an elaborated frame, the outermost borderline of which is framing the drawing.
Décoration Dévelopée de l'interieur de la Salle à Manger.
Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763, 1753
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Elevation of the dining room of the Castle of Malgrange in Lorraine, which was occupied by Stanislas Leszczynski, exiled King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine, and father-in-law to French King Louis XV. The long room features brackets and trophies near the cornice, and a series of windows and chimneypiece mirrors interspersed with double doors. There are also niches which have rocaille sculptures placed upon console tables. The plate has a scale bar of "60 pieds de France." The plate has been trimmed, but the engraver's signature is still visible.
Stage Design, Group of Antique Monuments
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826, early 19th century
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Group of antique monuments on stairs.
Trees and Rocks on the Road to Mocha, Ecuador, near Chimborazo
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 16, 1857
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape and botanical sketch showing a view of trees and rocks on the road to Mocha, Ecuador, near Chimborazo. At center, the branches of one or two twisting, amorphous trees intermingle like writhing tendrils. Vines, ferns, and air plants hang off these branches and are nestled in the crux between them. Lush bunches of leaves are shown at upper center and upper right. At lower left, a group of boulders are visible beside the tangled branches.
Design for Wall Decoration, Pompeiian Room, Palazzo Altieri, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1792
Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, brown wash, traces of graphite on paper, lined with blue paper
Drawing

A fragment of an extensively decorated wall.The rendering occupies the entire sheet.  Above the space for the door opening is a representation of flying Eros and Psyche.  The lower part of the wall is treated as a dado, having friezes with two intertwined rows of festoons.  The main panel is an imaginary painting of Psyche, having won the favor of the goddess Ceres by arranging in due order the heaps of grain scattered in front of her temple.This panel appears to hang in front of a red panel, decorated with a motif of candelabra at left and right as well as with a motif of festoons with putti and satyrs, above and below.  Other smaller panels, to the left of the door opening and to the right of the main panel, contain images of Eros (left) and Psyche (right).
Sailboats
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, n.d.
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of two sailboats under sail.
Long's Eddy at William Cronk's, Grand Manan Island, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1851
Graphite, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing the steep cliffs and rugged northern coastline of Grand Manan Island in Canada, near Long's Eddy. In the immediate foreground, a tidal pool fills a declivity on the beach, which is otherwise strewn with stones and driftwood. Together with a few rocks, a large, knobby piece of driftwood is visible in the immediate foreground at lower center. Stretching horizontally across the middle distance, the beach extends out of frame at right and is bounded at left by steep embankment heavily wooded with conifer trees. Along this embankment at center left, a log cabin is visible--presumably the abode of the titular "William Cronk." Behind the cabin, a road ascends the embankement and curves to the left. In the background at center and center right, three succeeding ridges of immense coastal cliffs recede into the distance while wispy clouds hang above, rendered in white gouache. Indian Encampment Beach, now known as Indian Beach, is included in the background at right.
Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, mid- 18th century
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
cup and saucer

Cup with simple loop handle; saucer deep, with curved sides.  Inside of cup and saucer white, with scattered flowers; outside of cup and underside of rim of saucer yellw, with white reserve panels, on cup, in which are flowers.  Edges of cup and saucer brown.
Design for an Overdoor Relief
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for an overdoor relief with ornament motifs including putti, garland, egg and dart, flags, and crossed branches. The plate is signed.
Button
, late 19th century
Brass

Components -a,-c,-e/-h are on card i80-3
Seven circular brass buttons with shanks. a,c,d: marked: Extra Quality; e/h: marked: Horstmann and Allien N Y; a/d: spread eagle on a shield showing, at left, sun above mountains and, at right, stars and stripes, surrounded by 13 stars and the word: Excelsior; e/h: spread eagle with olive branch and three arrows; on breast, shield with the letter A.
Man
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a male figure.
Study of a Coach
Unknown, ca. 1750
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Sketch of a carosse-coupe. At left the front of the coach with a small front wheel and above a cushion for a coachman to sit.  At the center a slight trapezoidal shaped body of the coach with a front window and throughout simple edge ornamentation.  A large wheel at the rear of the coach.
Design for trophy of arms
, 1730
Pen and ink, bursh and watercolor, graphite on laid paper
Drawing

Two shields with ramheads
Design for Allegory of Painting
Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808, 1775–1800
Black, white crayon on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle showing a female painter beside an easel, pointing at a sheet of paper brought to her by a child or putto. A colonnade is shown in the background. Above is outlined as a niche.
Plan d'un pavillon de 12 Toises de face
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Plan for a pavilion of 12 toises; 1 toise is the equivalent of about 3.799 square meters. The plate is signed.
Plan du Chasteau de Colombieres en Brie
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Architectural floor plan of the castle of Coulommiers, France, with a scale in the center. The plate is titled.
Hanging or portière
Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915, 1875–1900
linen warp, wool weft Technique: complementary weft weave

Hanging or portière in two shades of green and ochre. A deep border at the bottom is made up of stalks of wheat, with roundels containing a winged male figure flanked by two horses. The side borders contain draped female figues with wings, separated by abstracted pomegranate motifs. The center field has horizontal bands of spirals resembling waves, sunburst patterns, and rows of roundels containing a draped female figure with an oar in a boat with sails. Weave is designed to imitate tapestry.
Table mat
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926, ca. 1910
linen Technique: embroidery on plain weave

Square table mat in undyed linen with an embroidered border. A vine with brown and blue berries appears on each side, and a blue flower is embroidered in each corner.  A signature "D" is embroidered in the flower in the lower right corner.
Sampler
Sarah Hawes, English, 1733
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, eye and satin stitches on plain weave foundation; counted stitches

Bands of alphabets (with no J or U, and a figure resembling a backward R inserted between A and B). With the date 1733, the initials S.H., a band of crowns, and the inscription: Sarah Hawes Ag 13
Drawings after Ornament and Architecture
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773, after 1759
Red chalk on off-white laid paper
Book

Album bound in red morocco containing forty-two drawings of architectural and decorative ornamentation, executed by the artist in Italy. Each sheet has ruled ink border with additional green watercolor frame, inserted into laid paper mount.
Hommage de l'Amerique a la France (America paying homage to France)
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815, ca. 1783
cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave foundation
Textile

American Indians before the (uncrowned) figure of France. In blue on white. Surrounded by boats, trees, and fences.
Cartoon for Printed Cotton: Les Quatre Elements
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France, 1810–20
Pen and black ink, brush and grey wash on cream laid paper, mounted
Drawing

An unfinished cartoon for cotton printing. Within vertically-disposed ornamental arabesques are: upper left, Juno seated in a chariot drawn ove the clouds by peacocks, and supporting the vignette are kneeling zephyrs facing each other (personifying Air); lower left, Vulcan forging armor, and supporting the vignette are two cyclopes (personifying Fire); upper right, sirens supporting the vignette showing Venus (shown below), center right, Saturn seated in a landscape, his right arm resting on a globe and attended by animals, and supporting the vignette are two standing Herculeses (personifying Earth); lower right, Venus borne over the water on a shell and accompanied by two tortoises (personifying Water). In the center of the composition and along the left edge are vertical strips composed of tophies symolizing the elements (uncompleted).
Design for Printed Textile
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815, ca. 1759–1815
Woodcut on cream laid paper, lined
Print

Allover floral design in orange, brown, yellow, blue, green, and black.
Les Plaisirs de la Jeunesse
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721, 1723-1735
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Page of arabesque design with a central cartouche with a scene of two young children lounging in a landscape. Among the tendrils of reeds and vines are doves and monkeys (singeries). The plate is signed.
Textile
, 18th century
silk and metallic thread on hemp Technique: stencil resist with embroidery

Detail of a landscape with rocks, various leafy stalks and flowering branches in shades of blue on a cream ground. A few small areas are printed in a brownish shade with white dots or completely reserved in white. Small area of couched metallic thread and orange and green silk embroidery.
Coverlet fragment
, late 18th–mid- 19th century
wool, linen Technique: two intercrossed plain weave structures (double cloth)

Coverlet fragment in deep blue and undyed wool showing abstract "whig rose" pattern.
Rosette
, 17th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace

Five-petal rosette with raised center. Small blossom of wheat ears in each petal.
Fragments
, ca. 1660
linen Technique: needle lace

Fragments of closely-worked lace in a scroll and floral design.
Sketches of Two Figures Moving Upwards
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on brown paper
Drawing

Sketches of two figures, with arms outstretched, moving up to the right.
Drawing: Study of a left hand holding a small disk
, 1750–1775
Vertical composition of a hand holding a disk. The left hand is turned towards left and the lower part of the sleeve is on the right. On the reverse is part of a study of -2746. The lower part of the rump and the beginning of the legs of a male nude shown from the back
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Turned towards left. The lower part of the sleeve is at right. On the reverse part of a study of -2746. The lower part of the rump and the beginning of the legs of a male nude, shown from the back.
Point Lookout
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938, 1883
Graphite on cream heavy wove paper
Drawing

View of a house with Dutch door (top portion is shown open) through a grove of trees. 
From Catalogue Card: Horizontal rectangle. View of the exterior of a Colonial type house, seen through the trees. The entrance has a portico and a dutch doorway, partially open.
Fragment
, 17th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Binche style with Binche ground)

Binche-style fragment with a border design of flowering branches curving up and back from the edge of the piece. Cinq trous ground. Design repeated in reverse direction in the upper half of the piece. Fragment is two pieces stitched together in the middle.
Fragment
, 18th century
silk Technique: satin weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocaded) Label: Silk satin with silk brocade

Fragment showing a portion of a ship under sail and a flight of steps leading to a group of buildings.
January and February
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550, 1546
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

1 in a series of  10 plates
Song Sparrow
Ernest Thompson Seton, American, 1860–1946, 1893
Ink and grey wash, with white gouache, on illustration board
Drawing

The bird sits on a twig, right, above its nest.
Fragment
, early 18th century
silk Technique: compound weave with supplementary weft patterning (brocaded)

Silk fragment showing detailed pattern in silvery shades of green and off-white with touches of salmon pink and yellow. Design has a symmetrical motif in two variants with a vertical bunch of flowers surmounted by fanning leaves surmounted by decorated pear-shaped cartouche with diaper filling, in a close-set medium sale diagonal repeat giving allover effect.
A Windmill
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Black crayon and white heightening on blue-grey paper
Drawing

Road at left, with fields on both sides. Windmill in distance, to the right of the road.
Snuff box
, early 19th century
Painted tôle

Irregular oval, rounded top and bottom; top hinged. Brown field, decorated top and bottom with landscapes with figures.
The Service Flag: Three From This House in the War
Childe Hassam, American, 1859–1935, July 21, 1918
Lithograph on paper
Print

A clapboard house, shaded by a tree, right, has hanging from it an American and a World War I service flag.
Coverlet
, 1828
cotton, wool Technique: double cloth

Bedcover in blue and white, reversible double cloth. Pattern of stylized detached flower clusters; border of grape vine design. Star in corner. At one side the date 1828 woven in and letter A.H. (?) - second letter not complete.
Punch ladle
S A, 1808
Silver, horn

Oval bowl with flaring rim. Flat stem ending in pipe for whalebone handle in straight and twisted sections with silver ferrule and tip. Marks: Lion passant, leopard's head, SA, date letter N, king's head.
Plate
, ca. 1820
Glazed earthenware with blue transfer-printed decoration, underglaze

Flat bottom, concave side. Decoration with view of a villa in the Regents Park, London, with trees and figures. Edge with leaf and dot pattern in white reserve. On reverse of edge, name of the decoration on a scroll, surmounted by American eagle.
Fringe
, late 18th century
silk Technique: plain weave

Yellow and pink fringe with a heading and yellow skirt threads hanging in clusters; every two clusters caught together and decorated with ornaments of pink floss.
Gathering of Card Players
, before 1908
Print on paper
Print

Le jeu tenu par le roi et la reine dans la Grande Galerie de Versailles (Jombert, 162)
Ornament, Christmas tree
, 1850–99
Dough

Yellow and red apple.
Portrait medallion
, 1790
wood

Presumably of Texier, Canon of Chartres. Jean-Charles-Nicolas Brachard (1766-1830) after a drawing by Perrin. -a: Circular medallion with young clergyman's relief portrait bust in right profile; background painted blue. Incised on arm: Brachard fecit 1790; -b: almost round oval frame, gilded, with pearl molding; -c: gilded, glazed cover frame.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: supplementary warps forming raised cut and uncut pile in a satin foundation

Diamond grid containing stars and rosettes.
Fragment
, 600–800
wool, linen Technique: tapestry weave

Coptic tapestry-woven fragment showing the foot or paw of an animal outlined in dark brown on an orange ground.
Niagara Falls
, ca. 1857
Color lithograph
Print

Horizontal rectangle. Lithographs made after photographs.
Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso
Marie F. Lattré, French, active eighteenth century, 1751
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Page of text with elaborate border decoration, printed on recto and verso. The recto provides a description of the Char de Bacchus (the Chariot of Bacchus, 1921-6-207-27), which was designed and paraded during the celebration given by the city of Paris on February 13, 1747, on the occasion of the marriage of Louis Dauphin and Marie-Josephe of Saxony. The verso gives a description of the Char de la Ville (the Chariot of the City, 1921-6-207-28), from the same ceremony.
Design for Four-Legged Rectangular Table
A.N. Davenport Co., 1900–05
Graphite and yellow color pencil on thin, cream paper
Drawing

Rectangular molded table top is raised on four plain tapering legs with brass sabots indicated in yellow color pencil.
Album of Bed Hangings
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719, late 17th century
Album

Album of designs for embroidered bed hangings - headboards, backboards, valences, testers, and footboards, featuring strapwork, fleurons, rosettes, and foliate scrolls.
Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso)
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879, 1830–60
Brush and watercolor, graphite, white gouache, black wash on heavy dark-cream wove paper, partially squared in graphite
Drawing

Recto:  On a squared ground, a polychrome frieze design in two registers (1 is partial), each banded at top and bottom with a thin dark (black/blue/brown) band and thick red band.  Frieze decoration of stylized blue and gold acanthus leaves with a white ermine whose collar bears the arms of Anne of Brittany (1477-1514) and with a blue and pink banderole inscribed in Latin (to be translated) winding through its legs.  The ermine is tied to a large gold, gothic capital letter "A."  In second register, partial frieze of stylized acanthus leaves and crown (partial) of Anne of Brittany.  

Verso: Over a squared ground,  the heraldic coat of arms of Anne of Brittany with a shield in blue and white surmounted by her crown in red-orange.  Below, an ermine, with a banderole saying "Anna vie" winding around its body,  is tied to the shield.  Holding the shield to the left, a kneeling angel in white with red-orange and blue wings and a banderole above with the words "Te Anna [rest to be translated], kneels on a gold ornamental leaf pattern.  Supporting shield on the right, an orange lion, with a banderole above reads [to be translated]  stands on gold ornamental leaf pattern. Decoration forms a partial circle on the bottom suggesting it was to painted above a circular window or medallion ornament.
Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623, 1616–1623
Engraving on paper
Print

Pendant design with scroll motifs and hanging pear-shaped pearls. Central Image: FIDES (Loyalty) shown as a nude woman with drapery holding cross and book (Bible?).  Surrounding the pendant are blackwork ornament designs for enamelists, mostly showing possibilities for the top and sides of rings.  Inscribed below image: "FIDES"  ( Plate 2 matted with 6161.1-1,3/4.2000)
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"
, 1809
b.) paper, cotton, silk

Component "b" is a page from Ackermann's Repository, August 1809, Vol. 2. Page contains printed graphics and four textile swatches: three wovens in pale colors and one printed stripe.
Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
Le Nove Porcelain Manufactory, Italian, established ca. 1727, late 18th century
biscuit
figure

1960-1-54-a/d: Allegorical figures of the four continents with th...;     1960-1-54-c: Allegorical figure of "Africa" with animal attribu...
Ornament Design with Cupids
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1748
etching on paper
Print

1921-6-212-8-a: Panel with scene showing the abduction of Hélène o...;     1921-6-212-8-b: Two child figures, left 3/4 view, right rear view,...;     1921-6-212-8-c: 1st state. Rectangular panel, central shell surrou...
Sampler
Mary Eyre, 1833
silk and wool embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation Label: linen embroidered with silk and wool in cross stitch

An embroidered sampler with a scene of two mountains with rivers flowing from them. A figure in chains and a simple loin cloth kneels between them, with his hands raised in prayer. Above, a verse is flanked by two medallions supported by angels. With a floral border on three sides. 
The verse reads: 

The Converted Indian's Prayer

In de dark wood no indian nigh
Den me look heaven and send up cry
Upon my knee so low
Dat god so high in shiny place
See me nigh with teary face
My priest do tell me so
He send his angels take me care
He come his self and hear my prayer
If indian heare do pray

Within the medallions: 
The angels of the lord bless ye the lord praise him and magnify him for ever 
and 
The angel of the lord cried loud saying prepare to meet thy god