biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Cloudy Sunset, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1865
Oil on off-white paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a vibrant sunset in cloudy skies over Jamaica. A treetop is included in the immediate foreground at lower left, while a pointed mountaintop is loosely rendered in the middle distance at center. Lush, green terrain extends indistinctly to a hazy horizon. At center, a puffy, low-lying bank of clouds stretches across the composition and partially obscures the view of a bright patch of orange-red sunlight. The setting sun's light casts the background clouds in a luminous red glow, that fades to gray and white along the upper margin.
Urban Scene with Draped Figure, Putti, and Woman Carrying Basket
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Urban Scene with Draped Figure, Putti, and Woman Carrying Basket. Additional figures in sunken midground and background.
Design for a Woven Border
, 1790-1800
Brush and blue, white, orange, and red gouache on oiled paper
Drawing

A stylized bud motif rises from dotted beadwork. Above, a blue pointed archway with fret motifs. Only one complete repeat shown.
Dead Soldier
Ange-Louis Janet Lange, French, 1815–1872, 19th century
Black, white chalk, graphite on gray-green paper
Drawing

A soldier laying on the ground in foreshortened view, with head towards the viewer.
Rocaille Motif, from Set No. 76
Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796, 1750-1770
Etching on paper
Print

Plate 4. Four motifs and their schemes, disposed in two rows.
Lampadaire
Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760, 1742–55
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design a chandelier with five hanging thuribles or censers for liturgical use. The body of the chandelier is decorated with rococo motifs, flowers, and leaves, palmette motif, gadrooning, c-scrolls, scrolling acanthus leaves, fleurons, a diaper pattern, topped with an ‘M' and ‘A' cypher. The chandelier is hanging from two ropes, with each thurible hanging from ropes with tassels, ribbons, and fleurons. The thuribles / censors are suspended by chains, with bodies decorated with gadrooning, and floral motifs. The central one is decorated with putti heads on the sides. The plate is numbered and titled.
Two Designs for Chairs
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789, 1849–66
Etching on paper
Print

Two designs for upholstered armchairs with carved frames featuring flowers, ribbons, a mascaron (mask) surrounded by sun rays, fluting and laurel leaves. The plate is signed with the printmaker, publisher, and original designer, and numbered.
Two Furniture Leg Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Two furniture leg designs, arranged horizontally on the page. The leg on the left features a top block with a carved rosette, a deep cove, acanthus leaves over the shoulders, and fluting down the column. The leg on the right features an inset rosette on the top block, a leaf-patterned flat, a bead course at the shoulder, and spiral fluting down the shaft, with carved bead and leaf cabling. The plate is signed and numbered.
Window Balustrade Designs
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Four designs for ornamental ironwork window balustrades featuring neoclassical motifs - repeat patterns, geometric and scrolling patterns, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, c-scrolls, fluting, festoons of leaves, rosettes, shells, wave pattern, vases, fleurons, and interlaced L's (French Royal cyphers). The plate is numbered and signed.
The New Theatre
Firm of Warren and Wetmore, Architects, May 11, 1911
Graphite, brush and gray wash, black ink on cream paper
Drawing

Façade of building with fifteen square windows in upper section; five arched windows with keystone cornices in lower section, and five double doors at street level. Lights hang from façade. Some figures depicted for scale. On building above arched windows: THE NEW THEATRE; at center, lower margin: SKETCH ELEVATION SCALE 1/8".
Baldacchino with Papal Ar
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839, 1775
Graphite, gray wash, pen and dark gray ink on cream laid paper
Drawing

Vertical composition of a papal altar with six steps that lead to a mensa with a crucifix and seven candlesticks. On the sides there are canopy supports which consist of ttwo pilasters and a fluted comumn. Statues of male saints stand in front of the column on pedestals. The entablatures are connected by a frieze of lambrequins, showing the columns supporting the entablature and a voluted, conical roof.
Design for a Brooch
, late 18th century
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on paper
Drawing

Jewelry design for a brooch. A double bow—one larger and one smaller, stacked upon one another. The smaller one has six slopes. Lace ribbons with branches entwined by a scroll of ribbon between two framing bands. In the center, a blossom.
Clouds above the Hudson Valley, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1866
Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a lush and rolling landscape in the Hudson River Valley beneath an immense and billowing bank of reddening clouds at sunset, likely viewed from or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. In the foreground, groups of trees line a grassy and rolling field that stretches across the composition from left to right. In the middle distance, a heavily wooded hill and slightly sloping hill descends from left to right, rendered in a dark shade of brownish purple. In the background, a dark blue mountain range forms an undulating horizon beneath a massive bank of billowing clouds, partly in shadow and partly illuminated gold, orange, and red, by the setting sun.
Two Icebergs, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June–July 1859
Oil and graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Seascape sketch showing a view of two icebergs (or possibly the divided crown of a single iceberg) off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Situated along the flat horizon across an expanse of dark brownish water, the bergs' sharp, broken forms lend it the appearance of a craggy amphitheater. The interior of the iceberg at right is a luminescent hue of light bluish-green. Along the horizon at right, the outline of another, unfinished iceberg is visible. The hazy sky behind is rendered in warm, muted tones of orange-gray.
Button
, 19th century
Silver, brass

Button with ornament showing a shield with three rings and a star, within crossed laurel sprays and surmounted by a crown. On reverse, "C T Paris Perfectionne" on a belt with buckle. Brass back and shank.

On card E
Study for a group of figures, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1895–1898
Pastel crayon on tracing paper mounted to board
Drawing

Group of female figures dancing with a male figure. The Group with the maenads as nudes.
Seated Boy, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1865
Brush and oil, graphite paperboard
Drawing

Figure sketch of a Jamaican boy of African descent sitting in grass. He faces obliquely away from the viewer, as he raises one hand to his mouth. He wears a straw cap and white linen clothing. Nearby foliage and blades of grass visible around him. Olive green ground visible along all margins.
Ornamental Vignette
Robert Menge Pariset, French, active 1732 – 1762, mid- 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Second plate from a series of eight fantastical ornamental vignettes. In the center, a vase with flowers, fruits, and leaves and a shell. The ground is suggested with some shading below the large shell in the foreground. The plate is signed
Two Frieze Designs
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, 1657–82
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two frieze designs with male and female figures, putti, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), a horse, festoons of leaves and fruit, a cartouche with a landscape in the lower frieze and a circular medallion in the upper frieze with the Greek mythological figures of Pan and Syrinx. The plate is signed and numbered.
The Virgin with the Rosary
Giulio Carpione, Italian, 1613 - 1678, ca. 1650
Etching on paper
Print

The Virgin, standing on a cloud and a seraph, holds a rosary in her right hand, and the Christ Child in her left arm. He holds another rosary. They are attended by two angels.
Three Ornament Designs for Escutcheons
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663, 1662
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Horizontal rectangle showing three escutcheon designs, each with interlacing leaves and opposing fantastic figures. The plate is signed.
Christ in Glory with Angels
Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646, ca. 1630
Brush and gray, white and light blue gouache on brown laid paper
Drawing

Crowd of angels surrounds the cross while floating amidst the clouds.  The cross, which is located on the right side of the composition, is being carried through the sky by two angels.
Encensoir; Encensoir, 5th Plate
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1740
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

Censer in form of a covered vase, suspended by four chains. The upper portion of the vase is decorated with swirling bands of leaves, the lower body decorated with a central cartouche. The vase resets on an asymmetrical base. On the lower right foreground, a small pouring vessel on a rococo stand. Above right, a small flaming censer held by chains.
Print
, 1676
Black ink on rolled paper

Horizontal rectangle: In the foreground a row of guards and behind and at sides, the audience.  At center, the stage, in a court of the chateau.  Torches and candles light the architecture and the stage.
Design for Corner Motif for Woven or Embroidered Border
, 1820–50
Graphite, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Two boughs with leaves and cherries, obliquely shown directed toward left.
Excerpt from "How I Discovered the North Pole" from The Outlook (Vol. 51, No. 24, 15 June, 1895, p. 1025, 1026)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1895
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Excerpt from a story from The Outlook. Page 1025 has an illustration at the top of a "gingerbernooster," a fearsome fictional creature that eats tigers in the story. At bottom left, an illustration of a bear in glasses dancing to the music of a banjo-playing seal. Page 1026 has an illustration at the top of seals eating from buckets of ice cream. An illustration at the bottom center shows a seal holding up his banjo above his head.
Elevations of a Door, Door Frame, Overdoor, and Adjoining Wall Panel
Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766, late 18th century
Red chalk on paper
Drawing

Vertical format elevations of a door, door frame, overdoor, and adjoining wall panel. Somewhat more than the right half of the door and the left half of the wall panel are shown. Three panels are suggested for the door decorated with crossed boughs, a circular medallion displayed between them, in the central panel. A displayed eagle upon a base formed as a capital, shown upside down, forms the overdoor.
Stern View of Two Canoes
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1897
Crayon on paper
Drawing

Sketch of two canoes going down rapids with slight indications of pine trees on father bank of the stream.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: 4&1 satin damask

Twining checkered bands forming strapwork that enclose cartouches that contain plant forms.
Grand Canal
, ca. 1840
Block-printed paper on pasteboard support
Bandbox and Lid

Box has yellow field with brown, blue and green printing representing a canal in a landscape. Top does not belong with box. Printed in browns, with a tempietto.
Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Upper row: at left, a canopy supported by two Ionic columns with curtains. At right: another canopy, similar, without curtains. Central row: the entrance to the alcove is shaped like an arch, supported by two columns, laterally two open compartments with a straight entablature. Curtains are in each opening. The wall beside the arch is decorated with two flying figures. At right, the canopy is shaped like the front of a tent, with the wall above shaped as in -1693, below left. In the space between the two drawings is a sketched plan of the bedroom and, partly overdrawn by the right drawing, apparently of a house. Lower row: at left, a canopy supported by posts which are connected by pointed arches. Above is a dome over cornices, in front of a curved wall with a drapery. Curtains. At right the upper part of the canopy is a frieze, decorated with festoons and lambrequins. It is supported by two posts with capitals.
Garden Designs
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Two designs for gardens with potted and planted topiary throughout. The plate is numbered but not signed.
Design for a Fantastic Fountain
Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86, ca. 1770
Etching on paper, remargined
Print

Partially in ruins and in deserted country, the upper waters of the fountain spring. A cloth is held by two figures on the shaft, with the inscription: "FONTAINE / INVETE / et graues Par Legeay / arch. Et"; "J Legeay / sculp." is written in a medallion at the bottom. Bottom margin: "A Paris chés Huquier rue des Mathurins au coin de celle de Sorbonne." (cf. Guilmard).
Ornament Designs with Grotesques
L. C. Chateau, French, mid- 17th–mid- 18th century
Engraving on paper
Print

Various ornaments with grotesques and scrollwork.
Design with Zephyr and Flora in a Garden
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 18th century
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Mythological scene of the wind gof Zephyr and Flora in a garden landscape, surrounded by a fountain, terms, and clouds.
Cartouche Pitoresque
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775, ca. 1740-1760
Etching on laid paper
Print

Rocaille cartouche with lion. The plate is signed.
Box or Snuffbox Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for an oval box or snuffbox showing, from top to bottom, the elevation of the lid, with wave band and bead course; a top view of the lid, with a monogram in a central rondel and a lozenge pattern with beads; and an elevation of the box, with its lid open at the hinge, featuring bands of draped garland of flowers, bead course, a guilloche of branches with rosettes within, bead course, and band of flower ornamentation. The plate is signed and numbered.
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Raymond Gayrard, French, 1777 - 1858, 1820
Cast bronze
Medal

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651 -1715).
Pomposity, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1780 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, German, 1726 - 1801, 1779
Stipple and line engraving on paper
Print

A pompous looking man enters a room in which a party is assembled. The poem warns against judging too severely a pompous man because: if he loses the important look on his face, nothing remains of him.
Grand Trumeau de la Galerie d’Apollon.
Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726, 1710
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Third plate from a series of prints depicting the ornament and interiors of the King's apartment at the Royal palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, part of the Cabinet du Roi (King's Cabinet) series published by the Imprimerie Royale. The plate depicts the ornamental panelling between doors or windows in the Gallery of Apollo at the Louvre. The two central panels and the flanking narrow panels are ornamented with grotesque and arabesque motifs, including strapwork, fleurons, rosettes, masks, acanthus leaves, shells, and fleurs-de-lys. The upper central panel features a canopied platform with a man fighting a bull and a lower round cartouche with cupids sharpening their arrows. The grotesque ornament includes a snake handled vase, baskets of flowers, drapery, and sphinxes. The lower central panel features dolphins, baskets with flowers, and two winged cupids wrestling with bulls. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Title Page, from "Livre de Dessins"
Michel P. Mouton, ca. 1675
Engraving on paper
Print

Two children work in a goldsmith's workshop. The title stands on an escutcheon in the center. The coat of arms and two devices of Mouton are on top.
Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card
, 17th century
Stencil-colored woodblock print
Playing card

1909-22-1-1/35: Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards50;     1909-22-1-21: Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards.50
Fragment
, 14th century
silk, metallic Technique: two integrated structures; 4&1 satin with plain weave (lampas)

Eight-pointed stars and strapwork in green, blue, white and gold on red.
ART DU BRODEUR
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786, 1770
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

The tenth plate from a series of ten illustrating the tools and art of embroidery. Three details from embroidered friezes for garments worn by the Dauphin for his wedding in 1760 and by the Comte de Provence.  The designs feature beads, flowers, and foliage on a plain background within a double-lined border. Each design is labeled and numbered with details labeled with letters. The designs are shown in varying degrees of completion. Each design is signed.  The numbers and letters are referred to in the accompanying text, which is not included in this album. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Elévation et Profil d'un Commode en Secrétaire
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevation and plan of a chest of drawers designed in the style of a secretary desk. The commode is decorated with ornament motifs including urn-shaped candelabra, a large front panel with military trophy, and bands of wave pattern, fluting, and a branch guilloche. The plate is signed and numbered.
Bamboo Grove, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1865
Graphite on gray wove paper
Drawing

Botanical sketch of a grove of bamboo trees in Jamaica. At center, the tightly packed copse dominates the composition and is rendered in varying levels of precision and looseness. Several bamboo stalks visibly extend through the mass of shaded leaves. Below, multiple details of bamboo branches and leaves are visible.
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719, 1715–19
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

An interior wall elevation with a fireplace (chimney piece and mantel) design in the center, flanked by plain paneling with molding. The mantel is curvilinear with scrolling acanthus leaf motifs on the sides. The overmantel mirror is flanked by wall sconces with two candles each. The overmantel frame and flanking paneling are decorated with c-scrolls, fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, and shells. There is an oval painting above the mirror depicting a man wresting a hog in a landscape framed by fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, pearls and dragons or birds. The cornice is decorated with similar motifs with a central cartouche. There is a plan view of the mantel shape and a scale below. The plate is numbered.
Lamp
, ca. 1815
Enameled tôle

In shape of a boat, in antique manner, mounted on circular gilded foot with square black base; gilded handle, curved and terminating in animal's head.
Pour une Fenêtre Dorique
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Design and profile of a window decorated according to the Doric order. The plate is signed and numbered.
Figure Sketches with a Fig Tree, Ottoman Empire (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February–April 1868
Graphite on white wove paper
Drawing

Mixed studies showing three partial figure studies of Jewish boys and men, with a fig tree. In upper portion, a sketch of a book wedged in a stone crack and the head of a Jewish man viewed from the rear are visible. At center, a Jewish male is shown from behind, adorned in a shtreimel (or fur hat) and draped clothing, with the face and head of a Jewish boy at left, also wearing a shtreimel. Below, and oppositely oriented, a sketch of a leafless fig tree is visible.
Designs for Capitals
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 1731–77
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Designs for eleven ornamental architectural capitals arranged in two horizontal rows, with vegetation in between.
Mounted Cavalry Officer
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1862
Graphite, brush and gray wash on off-white paper
Drawing

Vertical view of a mounted cavalry officer, seen obliquely from the left side; a slight  graphite sketch of the cap, at bottom.
Iceberg in Cartwright's Bight, Southwest from Battle Harbor, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June or July 1859
Brush and oil paint, graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Seascape sketch of a large iceberg floating in Cartwright's Bight, an inlet on the island known as Caribou Run off the coast of Labrador in Canada. Dominating the composition at center, the iceberg has a large, rugged prominence at left that flattens out to a form resembling a duck bill at right. The right side of the berg is a sheer, icy cliff. Dark, rippling ocean waters comprise the foreground while, in the background, sporadic clouds hang in a sky that gradates from a pinkish orange on the horizon, to greenish blue along the upper margin. In the lower portion, graphite guiding lines are visible at the base of a yellow-brown ground.
Design for Brooch with Diamonds
, 16th century
Pen and sepia on paper
Drawing

An escutcheon formed of shell-like volutes frames a round gem. A garland of flowers draped below, with a hanging pearl.
Rifles Leaning Together
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1862
Graphite on cream wove paper, laid down
Drawing

Horizontal sketch indicating stacks of rifles among bushes.
Broken Tree Trunks
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1850–1890
Graphite on light brown wove paper
Drawing

Botanical sketches at upper left of a broken tree trunk and the fallen upper portion of a tree, without leaves.
Sidewall
, 1920
Block-printed and flocked on a ribbed paper

Symmetrical design composed of foliage, drawn on a larger scale. Center motif subjects: an artichoke with branching acanthus leaves on either side. From the top is growing a spray of three small flowers from which spring forth three buds. The design is that of a Queen Anne or early Chippendale damask which this flock paper simulates. Embossed fine horizontal lines on background.
Miser's purse
, 19th century
silk, steel beads Technique: fishermen's knotted net technique

Miser's purse of netted black and yellow silk and finished at the ends with steel beads.
La Fontaine de l’Isle à Chaville (Upper Plate)
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, 1677–1703
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two plates printed on a single sheet (one above the other). Detailed views of the gardens at Chaville featuring fountains, bosquets (groves), and trees, with figures throughout the grounds. The plates are titled.
Broken Columns, View from the Parthenon, Athens
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1869
Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of ruinous columns at the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, and the nearby landscape. Four ancient, broken, and fluted columns extend horizontally across the composition in the immediate foreground, with three truncated columns visible at center. The divisions between the drums, or the cylindrical stone blocks that comprise the various sections of the columns, are clearly visible. Brown residue or detritus is visible along the sides of the columns. The view beyond reveals the rolling and lush landscape of the Attic Plain with the blue-green Saronic Gulf beyond. Distant mountains are faintly visible in the background beneath a blue sky with sporadic puffy clouds.