biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Textile
, 15th–18th century
cotton Technique: resist-printed on plain weave

Simple floral motifs within a grid of dots. White design on blue ground.
Design for a Sugar Bowl
Noritake, Japan and New York, New York, USA, 1880–1910
Brush and watercolor, gold gouache, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Sugar bowl and unfinished lid with pointed gold handle; body of bowl has a landscape scene with trees and water with two swans; surrounding the image is decoration in gold of rinceaux and plant motifs on light green ground.
Purse
, 17th century
metal and horsehair Technique: woven

Small folding pocketbook of black horsehair with pattern in silver. Design is a hunting scene with a man on horseback with various animals. Edges bound with very narrow silver braid.
Sidewall - sample
Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900, 1906–08
Machine-printed

Grape and trellis design. Rustic light tan trellis supports forming perfect squares, from which hang bright blue grape clusters. Printed on off-white ground.
View of Durham Cathedral
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925, 1883
Graphite, brush and watercolor on greenish-grey heavy paper
Drawing

View over the treetops of Durham Cathedral, as seen from the southeast, and showing surrounding houses.
Egg warming rack
, ca. 1810
Painted tôle

Painted oval in plan, with large bolted ring handle, two-leaved hinged cover. Brown ground with band of gilt foliate scrolls.
Mars, Venus, et l'Amour
Simone Cantarini, Italian, 1612 - 1648, ca. 1640
Etching on white paper
Print

Mars seated under a tree, with his arms about Venus, who is watching Love at her feet, with a small dog.
Panel with the Letter "R" from the "Newes ABC Büechlein"
Lukas Kilian, German, 1579 – 1637, 1627
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

A boy draws (outdated: "reissen").
Two Panels of Ornament Design
Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689, 1664-1689
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Two vertical panels of ornament design. The left panel features a woman in antique costume holding aloft an oval medallion with a scene of Eros, and which sprouts scrolling acanthus leaves. The right panel features a rectangular relief at the bottom with a reclining figure, grotesque scrolling acanthus leaves, and a blindfolded Eros. The plate is numbered but not signed.
MARCHE MILITAIRE
Jacques Bacheley, French, 1712 – 1781, mid- 18th century
etching on paper
Print

Fifth plate from a series of six depicting children's scenes, framed within decorative rococo cartouches. The series is incomplete in this album and the third and fourth plates have been substituted with plates from other series. The scene shows a group of boys in military attire, marching along, holding weapons with one boy playing a drum and another holding a flag.  The title is lettered below the cartouche, the plate is signed and numbered.
Burner Designs for Pedestals
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1785-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

The plate is divided into two, with a burner on a pedestal in the upper and lower halves of the sheet. At top, the burner is ornamented with gadrooning and scrolling acanthus leaves. It sits on a wide, low pedestal that has at its center a medallion with a mascaron, edges with bead course. The pedestal also has fluting, is draped with garlands, has rosettes in its corners, and pinecone finials at the edges. The burner in the lower half of the page is draped with garland of flowers and decorated with gadrooning and fluting. It sits on a pedestal that has a frieze of bound oak leaf, rosettes at its edges, and floral garland. The plate is signed and numbered.
Man Looking in a Mirror, Possibly Socrates Teaching Self-Knowledge
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, ca. 1580 – 1605
Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink on laid paper
Drawing

Recto: A man sits in a small room, surrounded by open books. In his left 
hand he holds up a mirror, in which his face is reflected. 
Verso: Italian inscription.
Pillow cover
Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association, ca. 1900
linen Technique: cutwork and embroidery with bobbin lace

Pillow cover with upper and lower sections ornamented with embroidery and cutwork borders. Upper section with a band in lozenge design. Joined by bobbin in three designs. Pillow covered in purple silk.
Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1775–1790
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

A stripe and a row of oblongs alternating with leaves are at left. Rising stem with flowers at right.
Ornamental Vase of Fountain Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century, 1767-1793
Crayon-manner engraving with red ink on paper
Print

Lidded vase with a grotesque dolphin-head spigot near its base. The vase has a finial comprised of fruits, leaves, and trailing vines. A band of repeating shells encircles the vase at its shoulder. A garland of leaves is draped across the body of the vase. Large shells decorate the lower portion of the vase. The vase is elevated on a tripod with a garland of leaves draped between the three legs; there is some indication of a ground of grasses below the vase. The print is engraved in red ink (sanguine) crayon manner. The plate is not lettered or numbered.
Design for a sedan chair
, ca. 1775
Pen, ink, brush, and various watercolors on paper
Drawing

Shown from the rear right corner with two bars. Below the window is a band, running around. It divides at the back side the decorating candelabum, beside whose top are two dolphins. In the panel beside the window are hanging garlands and a festoon with a trophy of objects referring to Cupid. The bottom panel at the side is decorated with a candelabrum with the vamp of a harpy between stems. The bar is decorated with festoons in the width of the chair. A dragon is on top of the roof.
Design for the Letter T of a Pictoral Alphabet: Turk
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866, ca. 1830
Graphite, pen and bistre ink, brush and ink wash, with white heightening on cream paper
Drawing

Letter above, flanked by intertwining rinceau. A Turk in rich attire is seen seated in a loggia smoking a hookah.
Sidewall
Jacquemart & Bénard, France, ca. 1791
Block printed on handmade paper

Vertical rectangle composed of three joined sheets giving full width of original paper and all but three inches of drop-repeating design, which repeats twice in one width. A bowl of flowers is placed above a medallion enclosing a suckling sheep with lamb, surrounded by a wreath; and below a brule-parfum flanked by two birds taking strawberries from compotes. Above the latter motif is the fourth motif of the design, confronted putti dancing on a baldaquin from which hang two swags.
Mount
, ca. 1820
bronze

Furniture mount in the form of a pierced rosette, composed of lotus buds.
The Artist's Mother Seated at a Table, Looking Right: Three Quarter Length
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669, 1631
Eetching on laid paper
Print

Three-quarter length portrait of an elderly woman, seated, facing right. She is seated near a table, her hands crossed in front of her.
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1805–1815
Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper
Drawing

The repeat, five of which are shown, consistss of a bar from which drops are esuspended and a flower bough rising toward right. A scalloped border is at the bottom.
Wooded Island, Lake Millinocket, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1877
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch of a wooded island, or possibly a shoreline, on or near Lake Millinocket in Maine. Visible in the middle distance at center, the island hosts several trees--most of which are dead and leafless. Three living trees, however, are shown at center and center left. The lake's placid surface comprises the foreground.
Forelegs of a Standing Cow or Ox, Newport
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, 1871
Brush and watercolor and white gouache, pen and brown ink, graphite on grey paper
Drawing

The forelegs of a standing cow or ox, shown frontally.
Diligence Ornée
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Back and side view of a design for a stagecoach, decorated with carved ornament motifs including garland, fluting, c-scrolls, ostrich plumes, scrolls, acanthus leaves, and branches. The plate is signed and numbered.
Handscreen
, mid- 18th century
Engraved and hand-colored paper leaf, turned wood handle

Handscreen with paper lear and turned wood handle. Obverse: scrolling cartouche with an interior scene showing a seated woman counting money while a standing woman passes an envelope to a messenger. Reverse: scrolling cartouche with rocaille and the poem "Femme Adroite."
Decorative door boss and nail
, 15th century
Wrought iron

Hemispherical boss divided into six triangular sections channels bounded by lines. Rounded nail head flanged at neck above a square shank.
Allegorical representation of the wedding of a member of the von Ringles family in Strasburg with a von Hengel
, ca. 1590
Black ink on white paper
Print

Vertical oval within vertical rectangle. A man at left and a woman at right hold a clock at center. Over man's head a genius holds a shield with a rooster on a ring; over the woman's head another holds a shield with two crossed hoes. Conventionalized leaf border.
Design for an escutcheon
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, ca. 1725
Graphite, pen and sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper
Drawing

On top a shell and a crown. On verso: a sketch of what looks to be Christ on the Cross.
Staircase Balustrade Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for an ornamental ironwork staircase balustrade decorated with scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, fleurons, rosettes, laurel leaf festoons, shell cartouches, meander motif a vase finial, flaming torch and quiver of arrows. The plate is signed and numbered.
Rocaille Ornament Design
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755, after 1736
Etching on laid paper
Print

A print from a series of seven designs for rococo ornament, cartouches and vignettes of figures and rocaille motifs. A fantastical architectural structure made of rocaille motifs, c-scrolls, acanthus leaves, shells, intertwining garlands of flowers, The base of the structure includes an arch with bricks, within a landscape surrounded by a dog and a sheep, with trees in the background. At the lower left, beside the sheep there is a bagpipe, and a hat among other objects. On the top of the structure are two putto sitting and holding flowers. The plate is numbered, signed and with an address.
Plans, Elévations, et Profils de plusieurs Chaises
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Plans, elevations, and profiles of armless chairs. The chair frames are decorated with ornament motifs including rosettes, piastre, bound fluting. The plate is signed and numbered.
Border
, ca. 1815
Block-printed on paper

Horizontal design. Three military trophies in grisaille on a light brown field.
Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809, 1775–86
Etching on laid paper
Print

A circular cartouche design featuring birds, a horn, net, quiver of arrows and bow along with branches with leaves along the upper frame. Shell, c-scrolls, reeds, foliage, and water along the lower frame. The plate is numbered and lettered.
A Dwelling in Normandie
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877, ca. 1850
Graphite, brush and brown wash on paper
Drawing

A poor dwelling is shown, part of which is an open barn. Two trees are at left, a village is shown in the right background.
Cap border
, ca. 1820
linen Technique: needlework on net

Pointed oval with floral group at either end with a curving stem of small and large rosette-like blossoms. Powdered eyelets over ground. Drawstring in casing at lower edge.
Sampler
, 1800
silk on linen Technique: embroidered

While linen worked in multicolored silk, now faded, in a design of flowers, animals, people, architectural motifs, numerals and alphabet.
Alternate Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation
Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746, early 18th century
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An interior wall elevation for a gallery with four large arched and paneled glass windows/ doors. The walls feature paneling, frames, moldings, brackets in the cornice, and a sculptural bust of a figure in Chinese-style dress, with a vase, and masks (maskarons), in the center, with a cartouche below on the plinth or dado level. The paneling features a trophy of arms and armor, a shell, and a medallion with a profile portrait. The moldings and cornice feature strapwork, rosettes, fleurons, masks (mascarons), and c-scroll motifs. A description and scale are lettered below. The plate is numbered.
The Extra Ration
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1862
Graphite on cream wove paper, laid down
Drawing

Slight vertical sketch of a soldier, at center; undecipherable scrawl, at lower left,;  a sum, written upside down, at bottom of page.
Arabesque Design
Michel, French, active 18th century, 1780-1784
Etching on laid paper
Print

Arabesque design with a lyre supported by a cupid surrounded by two large birds. The birds hold branches of leaves in their beaks. The cupid and the birds are supported by a platform with molding of leaf, wave, and egg-and-dart design. The arabesque also includes elements such as dragon heads, reeds, and garlands of flowers. The plate is not signed or numbered.
Architectural Details and Figure Study
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, 1760–75
Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper
Drawing

Top row: left corner of an entablature. Left upper side of a door case; a console. An oblong hexagonal window is suggested over the door frame. Above it is a console with a mask. Entablature on top is angularly broken; supported at the corner by a column. Bottom row: man with a walking stick facing left; variation of the door case design.
Still-life of Fish, with Parrot
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 – 1755, 1740
Black and white chalk on blue laid paper
Drawing

At right, a large wooden tub is heaped with fish and crab; other fish are scattered on the ground in front of the tub.  At left, a parrot is perched on a mast which is draped with a fish net.  Vegetation in background.
Sunset, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, December 25, 1873
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a vivid sunset over the Hudson River Valley looking toward the Catskill Mountains in the background. The brilliant pink-red clouds glow from the setting sun and are reflected in the Hudson River below. A heavily wooded island is visible in the river at center right. A small figure walks along the bank in the foreground at left and appears to hold a fishing pole or rifle. 

Verso: Mixed sketches of ornamental architectural details and a baby.
Designs for Two Dressers, Elevations and Plans
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1745
Etching, engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevations of designs for two dressers with the plans of the marble dresser tops below. The dressers are decorated with ornament motifs including scrolls, rinceaux, branches, birds, and shells. The plate is signed and numbered.
Fishing Trawler
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, ca. 1881
Charcoal on paper
Drawing

Horizontal view of a fishing trawler with a long trail of smoke and a large cloud across upper left corner.
Study of man
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, ca. 1878
Brush and oil on wood panel
Painting

Portrait of a young male figure in profile.
Mountains, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1890–93
Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of rugged mountains in Mexico. A building may be sketched in the foreground at lower center, while a wooded prominence is visible in the lower right corner. At left, a steep and furrowed mountainside is visible, with the outline of a sharp ridge a creating a high horizon in the background. A cloud is shown at center.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view in Mexico of a steep mountainside descending to flat terrain. At center, the overlapping and furrowed slopes of a mountain descend to the right, where relatively flat terrain stretches across the middle distance.
Plate from Omnia Conando Docilis Solertia Vincit (A Docile Disposition will Conquers all Difficulty)
Paul Birckenhultz, German, 1561 - 1639, ca. 1600
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Vertical rectangle showing a vase with symmetrical floral ornament and arabesques whose curves terminate in heads.
Floral Design
, 1740–1770
Black, white crayon, brush and wash on bluish-grey paper
Drawing

A plant with a curved main stem with four blossoms and three buds.
Fujieda from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, 1797-1858
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

This scene shows fourteen people crossing the river on foot. Three people are on piggyback, and one is being carried in a seat. The others are treading through the water themselves.
Design for an altar for St. Anthony of Padua
Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709, 1685–1700
Pencil, pen and ink, brush, gray watercolor on paper
Drawing

Above is the elevation with parts of the adjoining walls and of the entablature shown; below is the plan. Disposed in half of an ovoidal niche. The mensa has the shape of an angular sarcophagus which is supported by two legs with cherubim in front of their upper parts. The figure of the Saint with the Christ child stands upon a pedestal in an angular niche; flanked by two fluted and embedded columns. Two women sit upon the triangular pediment, the left one probably with a burning heart, the right one carrying a twig. The conch is coffered. Below is the scale: "Scala di Palmi venti Romani." Framing line and stripe. Written in ink in lower left corner: "Padre Pozzo lo fece."
Necklace
, late 19th–early 20th century
glass beads, metal fasteners Technique: woven Label: Woven glass beads and metal fasteners

Necklace composed of four rectangular panels. Each has a white field with a blue triangle bordered in black. The upper edge is pink, and the lower edge of each rectangle is red. Fastened with cone-shaped metal buttons.
Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament
François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660, 1657
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Designs for gun parts and ornament decorated with grotesque ornament, mascarons (masks), fantastical animals, cartouche, fleurons, flowers, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), and foliate scrolls. The plate is signed.
Design for the Decorations of Five Pilaster Strips
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Left row: A candelabrum with a base like those in 1938-88-1468. Upon it a griffon crouch and support an ovoidal medallion with a lying putto. Winged half figures of children connect the medallion with an oblong frame with a female figure. Above it is a half figure supporting another ovoidal medallion. On top is a plant. Second row: two entwined garlands form an ovoid in which hangs a medallion. Third row: A plant candelabrum with a standing figure in the center and with an oblong framing a lozenge further up. Fourth row: A candelabrum in the scheme of a stem forming the frames of two ovoids and of an oblong in the center. Figures are in each of the three compartments. Above and below are oblongs. Fifth row: two parts of shells alternate four times with ovoids with figures. ABove and below only quarter of the shells are shown.
Title Page
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1738
Etching and engraving on paper
Bound print

Symmetrical rocaille cartouche topped by the sun and the four winds at upper left and upper right. Pairs of putti at left and right amid trees, each pouring water.
View of Venice, Italy
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of  the Grand Canal in Venice.
Virgin, Infant, and Saint John
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, ca. 1760–1770
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

The Virgin sits center, with the Infant on her lap. He holds a bird in his hand. St. John, also an infant, stands on a table at left, wrapped in an animal skin, holding his cross and banner.
Design for Bracelet
, 1800–1825
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Five repeating units. In the center of each, a blue square diamond. The framing scrolls form pointed ovals.
Page of a drawing book; Elderly man in classical attire
Unknown, ca. 1590
Brush, bistre on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Section of a page in a drawing book. Man is standing, obliquely shown, turned toward right, with the head raised and turned backwards. The right hand is raised in an indistinct gesture.
Plan et élévation d'une porte d'Hôtel
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Plan and elevation of a mansion door decorated with carved fluting, wave pattern, and piastre; an overdoor with a seated draped woman and putti, garland, and a mascaron keystone. At the top is a crowned coat of arms with fleurs-de-lys; on either side is a seated, draped woman. The plate is signed.
Design for a Salt Cellar
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819, ca. 1800
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Elevation of a salt cellar. The cup is a breast-shaped mastos form with fluting on the body and gadrooning at the rim. The vessel is supported by two Egyptian-style terms on a stepped, beveled platform.
Purse
, mid-19th century
glass beads, silk, metal frame Technique: beaded knitting

Knitted bag, circular in form, with an eight-pointed star in the middle with a floral border. Beaded scallops around edges; metal frame, silk lining.
Study of an Elm
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, ca. 1855
Graphite on grey paper
Drawing

Sketch of a tall elm tree, center.
Tile
, 16th–17th century
Tin-enamelled earthenware

Square tile, centered with bust of woman in cusped medallion. Subject, head one quarter to right, holds flower to nose, wears gown with imbricated patter. Colors: flesh, green, blue, and olive brown.
Button
, 19th century
silver and brass

circular buttons with shank - double shield with two coats of arms; men as supporters standing on ribbon with motto, crown above; on drapery mantling held at top with a crown - on reverse: "Agry 14R Castiglione Mon. Bouvet J. B. M"

Component -a is on card H
Component -c is on Cooper Union Exhibition card 5
Textile
, ca. 1770
cotton Technique: blue resist on plain weave

Alternating rows of flowers in flowerpots enclosed within a framework of twisting sprigs and ribbons.
Textile
, early 19th century
silk Technique: satin stitch embroidery and appliqué

Embroidery in design of flowering rose sprays with insects worked in satin stitch. Border of scrolls and leaves worked in lace stitches and appliqué.
Angels Carrying the Holy Cross and Shroud
Mattia Preti, Italian, 1613 - 1699, 1661–66
Red chalk on paper
Drawing

Sketches of two winged angels flying and each carrying a large shroud in their hands. At lower right, sketches of two winged angels flying and carrying large crosses across their chesst.  At top left, outline sketches of figures.
Sketch from Mount Chocorua
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, September 16, 1862
Graphite, black and white crayon on grey paper
Drawing

Rocks in foreground. Ridges beyond to Mount Kearsage in distance, center. Notes on color and location, below, with date.