biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for a Waistcoat
, 1787
Various gouache on paper
Drawing

Design for the embroidery of a man's waistcoat. Two stripes and a feathery border are shown at left and a flower bough besides them. The remaining ground is to be decorated with rows consisting of small scale flower boughs and a star motif. The last named alternates horizontally and vertically with two different floral designs, one of which is a rose.
Caricature
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Recto: Profile sketch of a woman; Verso: Three sketches of a young female figure wearing a bonnet.
Design for a Pendant in Shape of Niche
, 16th century
Pen and ink, brush and sepia on paper
Drawing

An octagonal diamond is engraved with an anchor. The frame is shaped as an aedicule niche. On either side are allegorical figures of Love and Faith. Below are five drops.
Architecture and Figure Sketches, Thun, Switzerland
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1868
Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Architecture and figure sketches near Thun, Switzerland. In upper half, a castle complex with towers and high walls is shown perched atop a rocky ledge. In lower half, two views of a tall, square building with four pointed towers on its corners is included. Along lower margin, several figures are shown: a standing man and kneeling woman at right, a woman holding an infant at center, and a man's head in profile at lower left. 

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of sharp, alpine mountains enclosing a long lake that extends from foregound into the background. The structures of two towns or villages are visible along the shore in foreground at right and middle distance at center. Along upper margin, sketches of a church's dark silhouette, a waterfall, and a decorated chimney are also included.
Decorative Monogram Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1777–79
Etching on paper
Print

Design for six decorative monograms (letters), comprised of one or two letters featuring floral motifs, foliate scrolls, fur or pelt, flowers, ribbons, fleurons, and scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux). The plate is numbered.
Arrangement of Grass, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1844 and June 1845
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Botanical sketch from Catskill, New York, showing an arrangement of blades of grass at upper left. Sensitively drawn, the messy blades intersect one another and lean to the right as they reach upwards. A flower or clover is shown amongst the grass.

Verso: Figure sketch showing a young lady--possibly one of Thomas Cole daughters, Mary--as she walks up an incline. She lifts her forward leg, and in so doing, lifts the heavy drapery of her dress, revealing a view of her left foot. She holds a tassle or piece of fabric up to her chest with her left hand. She has curly locks of shoulder-length hair and is shown in left profile.
Rocaille Panel, with Scene of a Shepherdess
Jean Baptiste Le Prince, French, 1734–1781, ca. 1770
Engraving on paper
Print

In an irregular rocaille frame, in the shape of a fan, is a scene showing a shepherdess with her sheep.
Cut-out of Mt. Katahdin from Katahdin Lake, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1852–81
Graphite on blue-gray wove paper
Drawing

Landscape cut-out taking the form of the Katahdin range as viewed from the eastern shore of Katahdin Lake in Maine. The upper edge of the paper follows the triangular contours of Pamola and Baxter Peaks at left before descending down to a rolling ridge that includes Hamlin Peak at center and Howes Peaks at right. A straight, horizontal line stretches across the cut-out, likely indicating the surface of Katahdin Lake.
Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner or Plinth
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820, 1777–78
Etching on paper
Print

Designs for two andirons, two oval medallions depicting landscapes, and a central incense burner, candlestick or candlestand featuring with neoclassical motifs including fluting, palm leaves, incense burner, arms and armor, putti, drapery, terminal figures, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), a snake, flowers, and smoke. The plate is numbered.
View of the Acropolis from Lycabettus Hill, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1869
Graphite on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the Acropolis and Athens, Greece, from Lycabettus Hill north of the Acropolis. In the foreground, a grassy hillside gently arches from lower left to center right, in front of the rocky, rugged peak of Lycabettus Hill. In the middle distance at left, a large domed building--possibly the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens--is prominently visible within a group of buildings that blanket the ground below the Acropolis, which rises abruptly at left. The Parthenon and the Erechtheion on the flat top of the Acropolis, while beside it at center, the small, domed National Observatory of Athens is perched atop the Hill of the Nymph. The Temple of Hephaestus is visible at the base of this hill, to the right of the Observatory. Rolling terrain extends to the Saronic Sea in the background, bounded by the rugged mountains of Salamis and those west of Athens, which form a serrated horizon.
Design for an Altar Tablet
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819, ca. 1820
Brush and sepia wash, watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Design for an altar tablet with curved outlines, supported by two volutes of leaves standing upon bases. Below, in the center of the frame, the coat of arms of Pope Pius VII. Cherubim are on top of the volutes at the sides. Above an elaborated pediment, with allegorical figures of Faith and Justice sitting and on the top a relief with Christ on the cross, with the Virgin Mary, St. John, and St. Magdalene. The relief is supported by two angels and has a pelican at the top.
Design for a Fountain
Ludovicus Radix, Italian, 1762
Pen and ink, brush and sepia, watercolor on paper
Drawing

An aedicule with the papal arms of Clement XI in the pediment. Trophies on either side. Below, water flows from a row of stars.
Almanac for the First Half of the Year 1792
, 1791
Engraving and etching, brush and watercolor on paper
Print

An oblong medallion portrait is on top of every strip dedicated to a month. Represented are: king "Louis August XVI, du nom / Roi de France et de Navarre" (1754-1793); queen "Marie Antoinette d'Autriche / Reine de France." (1755-1793); the dauphin "Louis Charles / Prince Royale" (1785-1795); the princess "Marie Therese Charlotte de / France, Madame Iere"; the major of Paris, "Monsieur Bailly / Maire de Paris"; "Monsieur [Marquis de] la Fayette / Com.dant de la Garde Parisienne" (1757-1834).
Stage Design, Ruins of Antique Buildings, design for "Gli Avventurieri" by Carlo Valentini (1790-1853), produced at the Teatro Pantera, Lucca in 1837.
Emanuele Alderani, Italian, active 1829-1855, 1836–37
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, white gouache on blue-green paper
Drawing

Gothic ruins of castle in landscape.
Sketch of Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903, ca. 1890
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Nude female figure lying front downward, resting head on right hand, with left arm raised.
Design for a Mirror, with Alternative Suggestions
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, ca. 1780
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Different details are suggested at left and right. A pair of doves above center, from which are suspended a wreath with two arrows and a chandelier for six candles. Candle brackets at the back. A flower basket on a bracket at lower center.
Entrance Hall
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of entrance hallway lined with paintings and sconces.
Twilight in the Catskills, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1860–80
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape study showing a view of a cloudy twilight sky over the northern end of the Catskill Escarpment, looking northwest from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Wooded terrain stretches across the foreground while the Hudson River snakes its way through the rolling valley in the middle distance. In the background at left, multiple recognizable mountains are shown: Blackhead Mountain at far left, Acra Point and Windham High Peak at center left, and Cairo Round Top being the shorter, darker prominence in front of them. Long striations of dark and light clouds extend horizontally in the sky above the mountains. The gradient of the setting sun's light is suggested at center right. 

Verso: Mixed figure and landscape sketches showing a view of clouds over the Catskill Mountains and a separate view of a standing woman in a dress, likely recorded in or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. At right, two loosely-rendered cloud banks extend into the sky above a rolling mountain range with a sharp peak at far right. A star is visible at center right. An oblique view of a standing woman wearing a dress and a dark shawl is included at upper right, beside the outlines of a tree trunk.
Fabrique flamandes exécutée au Parc de Rency
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural print illustrating Flemish style buildings built in the park of Rency with four exterior facades, two interior sections, and six floor plans. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Design for a Candlestick
, 1750–1800
Chalk, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Rococo candlestick with mermaid with butterfly wings kneels upon a rock supporting a cornucopia from which five branches rise, four of which carry candle sockets.
Man and Woman, Cartoon for "Death of Ananias" after Raphael Sanzio
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, ca. 1820
Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash over black chalk on laid paper
Drawing

Staircase with two figures
Designs for Ornament, Jewelry, and Seals
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699, ca. 1700
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Designs for jewelry, seals or etui, hairpins, a mirror back or lid of a box, broaches, bracelets, and vertical ornamental panels featuring scrolling leaves, fluerons, flowers, swords, arrows, hearts, a portrait bust finial, and ribbons. The plate is signed and numbered.
Sidewall
Allen-Higgins Co., ca. 1900
Machine-printed

Vertical rectangle, a full width, giving nearly two repeats. Framework of rocks, shrubs and trees enclosing scenic vignettes; one, a countryside with village, two ruin-crowned hills in background; the other, a river with boats, houses and belfries on bank. Printed in right border: "Allen-Higgins W.P. Co., 2752 "Vogue papers".
Fragment
, early 18th century
silk, metallic thread, gold paint Technique: embroidered using satin, stem, couching and French knot stiches on satin weave; painted

Small fragment with a bouquet of multicolored flowers, leaves and buds tied with a ribbon. Satin weave ground is painted gold.
Stage Design of an Atrium
, 1825–50
Carbon, pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
Drawing

Outside is a segment of a circular enclosure, consisting of two stories of colonnades, with statues upon the entablature of the upper one. Steps lead to a transversal colonnade, crowned in the center by a quadriga.
Sampler
Sally Leonard, American, b. 1800, 1812
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave foundation

A deeply pointed border at the top with flowers, followed by several bands of alphabets and numerals separated by narrow geometric borders, an inscription and verse:
Pinks will fade and tulips wither but a virtuous mind will bloom forever
Elevation of a Wall
, ca. 1750
Pen and ink, brush and sepia, watercolor on paper
Drawing

Two windows. Above a couped pediment with an escutcheon containing a landscape. The compartments between and beside the windows with a gueridon with flowers and a medallion above in a framed panel between two columns with entablature and a balustrade above. In the corners beginning of an open arch.
The Critic
Louis Monziès, French, 1849 - 1930, ca. 1880
Etching on paper
Print

Landscape with a seated boy admiring a painting on a stool, in foreground. In middle distance, a river and a tree, right. trees also in far distance. Inscribed, lower right: "Louis Monzies".
Croisée cintrée
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a casement window with a hemicycle top. The hemicycle of glass is framed with draped and ribboned leaf and bracket. At top is a triangular pediment supported by scrolling brackets. The profiled of the window is at left. The plate is signed.
Print
, ca. 1890
Lithograph in colored inks on paper

Depicts a black and red lacquer cabinet, with drawers and compoartments, seen frontally and details, either side. Cabinet made by Kajikawa, the first lacquer-worker to Iyetruna, the fourth Shogun of Japan (1650-1680).
Dedication to Monsieur de L'Orme
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759, 1743
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Dedication plate from a series of 23 bound prints featuring monkeys acting as humans in various figural scenes. Textual plate with printed text divided into two columns separated by a vertical line. Bordering the text is a menagerie of animals including birds such as a chicken, duck, goose, parrot, ostrich, and other exotic birds. At lower center, a resting lion, tiger, and leopard. Surrounding the animals are decorative columns and ornament in rocaille style.
Fragment
, early 19th century
cotton Technique: printed on plain weave

Fragment showing a kneeling man and two women in sixteenth-century costume with a round temple-like building set amongst trees and rocks. Another small building is in the background. In purple on white.
Trapping in the Adirondacks, from Every Saturday, December 24, 1870, p. 849.
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1870
Wood engraving on off-white wove paper
Print

Horizontal view of two men, Charles Lancashire and Rufus Wallace, in a canoe, with a rifle resting on the gunwales, checking traps on the Mink Pond in late summer or early fall.  Man in stern holds paddle; man in bow holds a trap in which a weasel has been caught.  Beaver Mountain rises at right in the background.
A peasant woman from the neighborhood of Rome
Miguel Alfarren, Spanish, 1848
Black crayon, brush and white heightening on gray prepared paper
Drawing

Three-quarter figure shown from left back. Head is lowered and shown in profile. Left hand is slightly sketched; right one is shown.
Architectural Fantasy: A Circular Temple on a Truncated Pyramid
Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759, mid-18th century
Brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk on off-white laid paper with additions at top and bottom, lined with cardboard and border of blue laid paper
Drawing

In the foreground are ruins of a classical temple - a broken column and a pedestal.  Stairs lead up to a sepulchral monument and to an altar where a sacrifice is being conducted. In the distance are two free-standing monumental columns as well as a truncated pyramid crowned by a circular temple.  The sheet is enlarged at the bottom and slightly laterally by an L.L. who signed the original drawing.
Eight Studies of Friezes and Candelabrum
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1814–18
Pen and ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Recto: Eight studies of friezes and candelabrum. Verso: anatomical study of head and profile.
Fragment of bed hanging
Clerambault, Alençon, France, 1811–1847, 1796–1810
linen Technique: needle lace with ground of loop and twist with twist return Label: linen needle lace

Small piece from a set of bed hangings, with an all-over pattern of off-set bees on a fine net ground. On the left side, a border of lilies and their foliage. A scalloped edge is formed of gracefully curving laurel branches surrounding clusters of berries.
DIVINITÉ CHINOISE
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721, 1723-1735
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Vignette of a Chinese figure on an alter in a landscape; other exoticized chinese figures walk toward or kneel at the alter. This scene (chinoiserie) is set within a frame comprised of branches, scrolls, and garlands. The plate is signed.
Strawberry Thief
Morris & Co., London, England, designed 1883, printed ca. 1934
cotton Technique: printed on plain weave
Textile

Vertically symmetrical arrangement of pairs of confronted and addorsed birds, with strawberries and flowers. Printed in several colors on a dark blue ground.
Sample
Orinoka Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, ca. 1910

orange warp and gold color weft making a pattern of flowers in a vase with ribbons
Chair pads
, 1900–15
Technique: crochet

Pair of chair pads have an identical design of a medallion containing a winding path that leads to a single tree. Cross hatch pattern at the top and sides. Scalloped floral border at the bottom. In green, brown, and white.
Fragment
, 1830–35
silk Technique: plain compound satin with supplementary weft

Fragment of a dress silk with an allover design of floral sprays and a lace pattern in blue, green, purple, and white. On a black ground.
Scherzi di Fantasia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770, 1750–1760
Etching on laid paper
Print

A seated woman with a child, and a man in a flat cap. In the foreground, a quiver, plate, gourd, and staff. In the background, trees, an owl, and the ox. First state, before the number.
Bertha
, 18th century
linen Technique: needle lace

Bertha collar worked with a central design of an urn and flower motif surrounded by symmetrically arranged floral scrolls on either side. Edged on four sides with tiny picots.
Textile
, 1850–1900
cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave

Length of thin glazed chintz; roller printed with a background in two shades of grey. Flower design in two shades of strong pink, flower clusters and ascending vine. The background printed in last, as it may be seen printed over parts of the pink. Bound at one side and bottom in pink silk tape.
Panel
, 19th century
cotton, silk Technique: embroidered

Short panel of coarse cotton embroidered in orange silk at one side. Conventionalized open flower, zigzag and stylized plant forms.
Fragment
, 18th–19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Binche style with Binche ground

Band of coarsely worked bobbin lace with a loosely worked scroll pattern in a field of open mesh.
Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1795-1800
Pen and brown ink, brown wash over black chalk. Paper

Paris invites Helen to enter a boat which will bring them to a ship, seen at the right. Helen is followed by her maids. Trojans and Greeks fight at** the left,
Fragment
, 17th century
linen Technique: needle lace

Fragment of raised lace in a pattern of trefoil blossom with a diamond diaper center and picot edge.
Pair of Allegorical Figural Groups Depicting the "Four Continents"
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773, mid- 18th century
soft paste biscuit
figures

Europe, wearing loin cloth, seated on scrolled pedestal, holding sceptre and orb; attribute: helmet; America, wearing feather apron and headdress, kneeling astride an alligator. Forming a set with 1960-1-64A. Similar to Meissen model 1960-1-37 and 1960-1-41B.
Textile
Schwartz-Huguenin, 1851–63
cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave

Three pieces, same ground design but different floral patterns. Ground printed , probably by Molette, in two wide stripes in grey, one in very narrow pin stripe, one in horizontal bars of minute dots with moire effect in white. A) Floral pattern in one stripe of rose cluster, small detached  roses in other. B) Different rose cluster. C) Long spray of roses and cream-colored flowers and smaller clusters.
Fragments
, 14th–15th century
cotton Technique: resist-printed on plain weave

Dark blue stylized plant forms with touches of lighter blue interlaced to form all-over small squat ogival pattern, in which tangent ogives are arranged in horizontal and diagonal repeats, with budded ends of plant forms intertwined in center of each ogive.  Fragment of border at left side - a wide dark blue band with light blue trellis and natural trefoil at crossings; seven guard bands in these colors.
Windsor from Eton
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926, 1903
Etching on paper
Print

Horizontal rectangle. Panoramic view of Windsor Castle as seen across a body of water. Figures stand in the right foreground.
The Three Sisters
Francis Seymour Haden, English, 1818–1910, 1868
Drypoint on paper
Print

Horizontal rectangle. On a sandy knoll, on which is scanty growth of ferns, are three old and leafless trees, the foremost one broken and inclined toward the right; beyond is a kind of natural avenue formed by trees. In left foreground, the stump of a tree.
Book Paper: Exotic Animal
, 1750–65
Color woodblock print Support: green laid paper
Print

Horizontal format Colored inks in diagonal stripes; the animals - camel, giraffe, a crocodile and others, in full - The maker's name (indistinguishable) below.
Elevation of a Church for Monte Vergine
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1784
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Steps lead to the door in an apse which is flanked by statues in niches. Two angels crouch beside a cross on top of the dome and before a half-circular window. Triangular pediment with an escutcheon inside, and a cross on top. Apse laterally. Recto: variation of the design on obverse. Unfinished.
Fragment
, 1450–1535
cotton, wool Technique: complementary wefts, inner warps, plain weave foundation

Band of very fine brown wool tapestry with broad band below of weft-surfaced rectangles in red, brown, yellow, with overlaying diamond framework (stylized snakes) in these colors on contrasting fields. Groups of small narrow rectangles in red, brown, yellow, are grouped within the diamonds.
Vignette, God the Father
, ca. 1845
Wood engraving on paper
Print

Half figure; blessing and holding a mound.
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Captain of Cavalry
Georg Philip Rugendas, German, 1666–1742, ca. 1730
Mezzotint engraving in dark brown ink on paper
Print

A mounted captain is seen from the right back, his horse bucking before a cavalry encounter. Impelements of warfare on the ground in the foreground.
Veronica
, 1840s
Wood engraving on paper
Print

The woman with the vera ikon kneels beside Christ who fell under the cross. The Virgin stands beside.
Costume Design: A Man of the World for a Ballet
, ca. 1720
Lead pencil on paper
Drawing

Veritical rectangle. A young man with hat and sword is shown standing. The upper part of his body is turned toward left, the head toward right.
Fragment
, 13th–14th century
silk Technique: compound weft twill (samite)

Dark brown ground  with addorsed winged goats in lighter brown/yellow. Red and two blue stripes approximately 2.5" from top.
Le Temps De La Soirée, from a set of the hours of the day
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755, 1738
Engraving and etching on paper
Print

In a rocaille framing. An unidentified coat of artms bottom center.
Fragment
, 17th century
wool pile on linen Technique: cut velvet

Fragment of striped wool velvet showing broad stripes of blue and rose with narrow stripes of tan, rose, yellow, and blue.
Album of Prints: New Book of Vases, 1767, by P. Moithey
P. Moithey, French, active 18th century, 1767
Album

Album containing the six prints of P. Moithey's New Book of Vases, published in 1767.
Sampler
Esther Ann Frost, American, ca. 1800
silk embroidery on linen warp, cotton weft Technique: embroidered on plain weave foundation Label: linen warp, cotton weft, embroidered with silk

Small square sampler embroidered in pale silks on a natural linen ground. The central image is of a church with a steeple on a hill, with a tree, two girls, a dog and a sheep. A deep border of white roses surrounds the scene on three sides.