biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Band from a garment or hanging
, 6th–7th century
wool Technique: slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping.

A band showing naked figures within circular and square outlines on purple with a deep red background.
Cadenats
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783, 1748
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a lock and key decorated with ornament motifs including rosettes, branches, rinceaux, and shells. The plate is signed and numbered.
Study of a Cow
, 18th century
Black crayon on paper
Drawing

View of a cow oriented away from the viewer but turning to look back.
Female Monkey with umbrella
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759, 1860–90
Gouache over graphite
Drawing

A female monkey lays on a decorative frieze while holding an umbrella.
Shawl
, mid- 19th century
wool Technique: twill plain weave with plain compound twill borders

Long rectangular shawl of fine soft ivory wool twill with horizontal bands at either end of flower pots in brown, in between rows are two bands of tiny garlands and blossoms in blue. Blue and ivory borders along the long edges of the shawl. One long edge is fringed.
Design for Two Friezes
, early 19th century
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Page divided horizontally showing two frieze deigns. At top, a mask and eagle with trophies. Scrolling oak leaves form into a palmette. At bottom, bellflowers form an arcade, with objects below, including a brazier, an ewer and a bird.
Sampler
Teresa Alvares, 1700
silk embroidery, linen foundation Technique: counted satin, double running, stem and cross stitches on plain weave

Central square with decoration and inscription ("Made by Teresa Alvares in this year 1700").  Surrounded by a wide border with corner designs.  Tassels at each corner.
Three Putti
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1738–49
Etching on laid paper
Print

Three winged putti in the clouds, with ribbons wrapping loosely around them. Two of the putti hold onto a large piece of fabric. The plate is signed and numbered.
Console Table and Chest of Drawers
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

The left half I shown. A terminus carries the moulding top of the table. The chest of drawers is supported by a mark with a lion foot. The corner of its top lies upon the side shoulder of the terminus. The drawers are indicated by formed oblongs.
Trophy Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1777–79
Etching on paper
Print

Six designs for trophies incorporating leaves, flowers, shells, nets, jugs, anchor, spear, fishing rod, sticks, crab, and distilling apparatus. The plate is numbered.
Miracle Performed by St. Cecelia's Corpse
, 16th century
Yellow chalk, sepia, and grey watercolor
Drawing

Two figures bend down towards the corpse of St. Cecelia.  Several other figures struggle away in the right side of the frame.
Title Page of a Set of Representations of Battles Fought by Rene Duquay-Trouin (1673–1736)
Nicolas Marie Ozanne, ca. 1775
Etching on paper
Print

A trophy of arms in clouds with thunderbolts.
Ornamented Furniture Designs
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Designs for an ornamented marquetry desk, surtouts, chandeliers, and brackets. The plate is signed and given the lettering "A."
Design for a Painted Ceiling
Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838, 1790-1800
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Series of moldings about border; circular element in center with tent motif and arabesques in interveneing spaces for which alternative suggestions are made.
Mountain Peaks
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1868
Graphite and white gouache on tan laid paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketches showing views of alpine mountains in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. At center, rocky pinnacles and cliffs are visible along an otherwise wooded ridge. River flows at their base in the foreground. At center right and oppositely oriented, a sharp peak is visible above wooded slopes.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view ofa church or castle parched above a lake in a dramatic mountain valley. At left and right and in the background, rugged mountain ridges envelope the valley. Lake's still waters are visible in the foreground.
Fork and Knife with Glazed Earthenware Handles
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Saxony, Germany, founded 1710, mid-18th century
Glazed earthenware, steel
fork and knife

Knife (a): Straight-backed steel blade with rounded, upcurved tip. Pistol grip porcelain handle painted with blue, green and yellow flowers and scrolls out-lined with manganese; fork (b): three prong steel tines and pistol-grip handle painted in blue, green and yellow flowers and foliage within manganesse outlines.
Design for an Altar
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692, 1690
Etching on paper
Print

Design for an ecclesiastical altar in the form of a colonnade with stairs leading up to a central sculpted group including the central figure of Jesus holding a chalice. Atop the colonnade, a roundel with the figure of Jesus flanked by angels, palm leaves, clouds, and a cross. The altar features friezes, flaming vase finials, and sculpted moldings with scrolling leaves and festoons. There are figures standing in the doorways flanking the stairs on the ground level and a few figures on the balcony level above. There is a scale below. The plate is signed and numbered.
Zeus Deciding on the Destiny of Troy, Palazzo Gessi, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1813
Pen and ink, graphite on light blue paper
Drawing

Zeus upon throne in center of big assembly of gods. He raises right arm and in act of rising. Caption: Concilio generale delli dei Giove decide del destino di Troia.
Design for a Chalice
, 1800–1830
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Chalice decorated with masks, grape vines, putti, and Greek key design at base and center. The upper part of the cup is gilded.
Two Ornament Designs
Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679, ca.1660–1713
Etching on paper
Print

Two plates of ornament designs printed side-by-side on a single sheet. The designs feature putti flanking plinths featuring a roundel profile portrait, rosette within a shell, a head wearing a winged helmet (Mercury/ Hermes), caduceus, quivers of arrows, mask (mascaron), festoons of leaves, birds' heads, ribbons, a cartouche with a winged figure, foliate scrolls, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The plates are signed and numbered.
Tsuba
Tenkodo Hidekuni, Japanese, Kawabayashi, 1825 - 1891, mid- 19th century
Iron, gold and silver inlay

This iron tsuba is aori (oval) in shape and has a  koniku mimi (slightly raised square outer rim). Chunikubori (medium high relief) carving with Kin nunome zōgan (hatching inlaid with gold) shows a design with hoshiami (drying fish nets). Birds fly under the moon. 
At the center is the nakago-ana, an opening through which the sword passes. Surrounding this is the seppadai, a flat oval area that is migaki (burnished).
Recollection of Roots, Galloway Hill, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1865
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Botanical sketch of the interwoven roots of a tree that hangs off of a precipice in Galloway Hill, Jamaica. The entwined, spindly forms of the exposed, layered roots form a kind of natural latticework at center of the composition. The base of the tree's trunk is visible at upper margin. Partial sketch of a fern adjacent at right.
Stage Design, Gothic Ruins
Vincenzo Mazzi, Italian, active 1748 - 1790, late 18th century
Charcoal, white chalk on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Stairs between ruins leading up to Gothic arches.
Designs for Wall Panels Flanking a Doorway
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1790–1800
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

The oblong panel over the door is not decorated. The wall panels show dados and friezes. The upper panel at left: upon an oblong landscape painting stands a grotesque pavilion with the statue of a woman. The panel at right: a group of two figures stands upon a pedestal, which is flanked by two figures. An ovoidal landscape painting hangs on top. Rising plants from the background. Another design has been initiated.
ART DU BRODEUR
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786, 1770
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

The second plate from a series of ten illustrating the tools and art of embroidery. Along the upper section, a view of the interior of a workshop with a man and two women working on embroidery frames. Other frames and tools are visible within the interior with two large windows. Below the scene are numbered and lettered designs for elements of embroidered ornament, showing their different stages of embroidery, from outlines to finished design with shading. The design includes leaves and petals. The whole is framed within a double-lined border. The numbers and letters are referred to in the accompanying text, which is not included in this album. The plate is titled and numbered.
Design for a Woven Fabric
, 1815–1840
Brush and gouache on oily tracing paper
Drawing

A fantastical big-sized blossom on an upright stem, directed toward left. The blossom occures in 1909-13-24.
Design no. 948 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, ca. 1785
Brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Left bottom corner: obliquely rising bottom edge. Plants grow from a row of beads along the edges of the waistcoat and the lateral and bottom edges of the pocket. Garlands, a braided design, fans, festoons are under the pocket.
Ornamental Design with Small Blue Flowers, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres, No.1
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, after 1775
Etching with colored inks à la poupé on cream laid paper tipped in cream paper
Print

Floral motif, stem and leaves alternate, top to bottom, from moss green, mustard  yellow, teal, to olive green.  Upper center: four clusters of small, purple and blue flowers.  Lower center: four large reddish buds.
Cartouche Pitoresque
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775, ca. 1740-1760
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Rocaille cartouche set on a ground with hills. The plate is signed.
Design for Two Panels of Ornament
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1745
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for two vertical panels of ornament. The left panel features at center putto with dogs; the right, putti on a see-saw. The plate is signed and numbered.
Carpet fragment
, 1850–1900
worsted wool, jute Technique: machine-made uncut tapestry pile

Dyed worsted wool woven under a surface weft. There is a bottom weft and two filler warps held together by jute "chains." Design consists of large-scale allover repeat with only small areas of the ground visible. Predominating are the large red and blue flowers with green leaves.
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1805–1815
Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper pasted on paper
Drawing

A fantastical tulip bough and a fern leafe alternate over a row of lace leaves, the tops of which hang into scallops. Slightly more than two repeats are shown.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, linen Technique: lampas (plain weave plus plain weave)

Fragment of woven silk with a symmetrical framework of scrolling leaves and confronted birds. In faded blue and gold.
Autumn Colors, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 1865
Oil and graphite on off-white paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of autumn foliage in the hilly landscape of Vermont. At center right and left, two stands of mature trees are colored in shades of green, red, and orange in early autumn. A split rail fence is possibly visible between the two groups. Behind them, a hill rises abruptly and is covered in deep red and brown trees. At upper left, the hill's wooded ridge is visible beneath the sky.
Plan du Rez de Chaussée de la Mission Royale de Nancy
Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763, 1753
Engraving
Bound print

Plan of the ground floor of the royal mission of Nancy with all of the rooms labeled. The upper area of the plate features a plan of the gardens of the mission, which feature parterres as well as pathways lined with trees. At the bottom of the plate is a scale bar of 50 "pieds de France."
Classical and Pseudo-Classical Architectural Details
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872, ca. 1840
Pen and black ink, brush and bistre, gray watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. At top, shown from the side, a man with the head of a dolphin. At right, a caryatid, seen from the side. Two Corinthian capitals from the monument of Lysicrates and the Tower of the Winds in Athens. Below, at left is a cresting border with palmettes; at right, the upper part of a mausoleum with a sculpture of a seated woman.
Three Armchair Designs
Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, French, 1753 - 1835, 1865
Etching on paper
Print

Three designs for upholstered armchairs with carved frames featuring flowers, birds, scrolling leaves, fluting, rosettes, quiver of arrows, and acorns, feather and pomegranate finials with tapered legs. The plate is signed with the printmaker, publisher, and original designer / date, and numbered.
Design for a Cruet Frame with Alternative Suggestions
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822, early 19th century
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Design for a cruet frame with alternative suggestions. The handle is formed by a Medusa head wrapped between two snakes, rising from the arched railing on top of two bowls in the shape of egg cups at left and right. The cups are decorated with laurel festoons at left and vine festoons at right. The bottles have two rectangularly broken handles. The base shows a moulding; from its center rises a plant on a sphere.
Seacoast with Scrub Pines, Prout's Neck, Eastern Point
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, ca. 1884–90
Charcoal, white chalk on gray laid paper
Drawing

View of low rocky sea-coast with driftwood at center of the shoreline and scrub pines at crest of rising hill.
Two Trophy Designs
Jacques Ignace de Latouche, French, 1694 – 1781, ca. 1750
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Two ornamental trophy designs. The top includes a shield with two flaming hearts, ribbons, flaming torch, quiver of arrows, and flowers. The bottom includes a shield with a male profile portrait, an axe, daggers, foliate branches, and flowers. The plate is signed and numbered.
Man the Hunter, Man the Shepherd, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1787–1802
Pen and ink, brush and greyish-brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
Drawing

Young man in pose of Apollo, standing over carcass, points bow toward stag running in right distance. Inscription: L'omo cacciatore.  At right, shepherd, wearing Phrygian cap, blows pan flute. Cattle at right. Inscription: L'omo pastore.
Poissy, Seine-et-Oise
Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876, 1831
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Houses build upon high scaffoldings along the bank of a river. Trees are at left. Boats are on the river. In the right background rises a church over a group of trees. Written in the lower left corner: Poissy 1831.
Button
, late 18th century
Copper, nickel plated

1931-59-224-a: Two flat circular buttons; A) ornamented with engr...
City of London, United Kingdom, Part Two
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 1869
Graphite and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a portion of a panoramic view of London, United Kingdom. In the foreground, the roofs of a few buildings are visible, nestled among trees and other vegetation. In the background, past a treeline, a skyline of London is shown stretching across the composition with several notable domes and spires at center. 

Verso: Loose atmospheric sketch showing a view of distant billowing clouds and hazy, high-elevation clouds within a dynamic, stormy sky. Possible bolt of lightning visible at lower left.
Eruption of Vesuvius
, ca. 1780
Paper on wood frame
Lantern slide

Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, representation of volcano Vesuvius in eruption. To left, lighthouse-like tower topped with a cross. In foreground, six human figures and two trees.
Young Man, Seated, from Scribner's "Eighty Drawings including the Weaker Sex"
Charles Dana Gibson, American, 1867–1944, ca. 1897
Pen and ink on glossy white board
Drawing

Young man in evening clothes is shown seated in left profile, his arms folded. Illustration for Scribner's, "Eighty Drawings including the Weaker Sex," New York, Scribner's 1903, "The Party Wall."
St. Christopher Apostle Spoon
, 19th century
silver
spoon

With small oval bowl, the cast diagonally ridged stem with figure of a saint above join to bowl; with cast and applied terminal depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist.
Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings
Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721, 1705
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Plate three from a pattern book with designs for firearm fittings and ornament featuring grotesque motifs, male figures with swords, a man on horseback, fantastical creatures, animals (dogs, hares), birds, dolphins, insects, foliate scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, flowers, rosettes, and a crowned French royal coat of arms. The plate is numbered and signed.
Scene at a Shrine
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, 1797-1858
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

Visitors head towards a shrine which is placed betwixt fields of wisteria. Men and children sitting are encountering a woman who is hawking goods or attempting to seduce him into the pleasure district. Half a dozen other characters are shown innocently walking in and out of the entrance.
Design for the Embroidery of the Lower Front Part of an Overskirt of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, ca. 1785
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Ovoids with plants and frills at the hem. Fantastic and natural flowers decorate the inner panels which are formed by frills.
Fragment
, 4th–5th century
Warp; S-spun linen. Wefts; S-spun linen, S-spun wool Technique: slit tapestry with supplementary wefts for wrapping and loops.

A band, in monochrome tapestry, patterned with a floating figure holding up a bowl on one hand and pitcher on the other.  Weft pile loops on plain weave ground decorate the top and bottom of the figurative band.
Three Vases
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 1770
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Three designs for vases in Neoclassical style, each by a different designer. At left, the vase by Gunther stands upon a tall pedestal, the face of the vase decorated with a bow and a quiver of arrows. At center, a vase by Cuvillies topped with a basket of flowers, a bull's head at center surrounded by two putti figures holding a garland of leaves. At right, a vase by Delafosse with a twisting base decorated with leafy festoons. Background with hatching.
Design for Monument for van der Cammen-Henriques in the Church of St. Gumarus, Lier
Peeter Verbrugghen II, Flemish, 1648 - 1691, late 17th century
Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on laid paper
Drawing

A woman crouches at the foot of an obelisk, leaning upon a sphere and holding a snake biting its tail, together with a putto who supports and escutcheon. A censer is on top of the obelisk before which two putti cross palm boughs, holding wreaths in their outside hands.  Written on the column: pilaer van der Kerck (against the pillar); in the obelisk: Swerte / steen / en / Witte / letteren (dark stone and white letters).
Stage Design, Aqueduct
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872, early 19th century
Pen and sepia ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal Rectangle. Ruined aqueduct in hills.
Sketches of Bulls
, ca. 1800
Pen and ink, brush and wash, white heightening on paper
Drawing

At right, two recumbent bulls. A standing one at left. Behind, architecture.
ATTRIBUT D’AMOUR
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789, late 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for two ornamental hanging trophies. A copy after a print titled ‘Attributs d'Amour' (Attributes of Love), published by Jean-François Daumont after Jean Charles Delafosse (Paris, ca. 1771-1775). The trophies representing the attributes of love include clouds, masks, baskets, flowers, fruits, spears, sheet music, drums, tambourine, birds, grapes, flaming torch, quiver of arrows, horns, ewer, and a mirror or platter. The plate is titled and numbered.
Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)
, late 19th century
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
figure

Half figure intended to be made into a pin cushion, representing a woman shown to the waist with flange having three holes to which a skirt may be attached. The woman wears a green bodice, with long sleeves, low cut neck with purple ruffle and yellow scarf, a wreath of flowers in her hair and a rose in each hand.
AVIS AUX AMATEURS DU DESSEIN (Before Lettering)
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Ornamental frame for text (before lettering). The frame features motifs such as reeds, scrolls, an angel blowing a horn, garlands, winged mascarons, snakes, and mythological figures. At the top is a head with radiating rays above clouds. The plate is signed. The version of the plate with lettering is in the album (1921-6-216-4).
Metalwork Design
Babin, French, ca. 1750, ca. 1780
Etching on paper
Print

Design for ironwork/ metalwork - a nude man holding a club supporting a coat of arms with scrolling leaf and rosette motifs, on the top of a gate. The plate is numbered.
Souvenir
Adolphe Appian, French, 1818 - 1898, ca. 1880
Etching in dark brown ink on cream paper
Print

A shallow body of water is bordered by two windmills, near which is a small sailboat. Buildings, right distance.
Rest Stop
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, 1797-1858
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

Dividing the print in half is the river that holds two ships sailing downstream. On the bottom left side shows a rest stop, probably along the Tokaido. Here soldiers can rest along and regain their strength with tea or sustenance. Along the Tokaido are 53 stops. It would take on average two weeks for military men to travel to and from Edo. This depiction does not appear to be busy.
Principale Entrée du Chasteau de Colombieres, comme estoit la pensée de l’Architecte
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Architectural elevation of the exterior façade of the castle of Coulommiers, France with a scale below. The façade features a central dome with a cupola, and flanking wings, windows, arches, pilasters, columns, roundel windows, finials, balustrades, and horizontal banded smooth-faced rustication. The plate is titled and signed.
At the seashore in Mantoloking
Howard Russell Butler, American, 1856 - 1934, 1884
Black crayon. White heightening. Light brown paper.
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. A three-master stands upon the land, fastened by cords and logs.  It is shown from the stern. Caption, below at left: Mantoloking/June 28/84.
Design for a Console Table
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839, 1800–1820
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Elevation of a partial table. The leg in the form of a bird with claw foot. Three festoons and a central blue medallion. Dark cast shadow below.