biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Ornamental Vase Design
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781, 1760-1764
Etching on laid paper
Print

Oval vase with narrow mouth. The vase is decorated with laurel leaf and rosette ornamentation, and drapery across the belly of the vase. The vase is elevated on a low plinth. The plate is signed and numbered.
Bedroom alcove with a figure
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, red ink on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Bed decorated with drapery and plumes; a figure at center smoking from a long opium pipe.
Cartouche with Statuary and a Bird
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769, mid- 18th–late 18th century
Etching on paper
Print

Choinserie Cartouche with Statuary and a Bird
Looking South from the Farm, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1860 - 1880
Graphite on white paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the Hudson River and the surrounding terrain, looking south-southwest from Church's property near Hudson, New York, known as the Farm. In the foreground, nearby rolling and wooded hills are viewed from an elevated perspective as they descend to the shores of the Hudson, which is visible in the middle distance at center. In the background, the silhouettes of distant mountains are visible. Above, a mixture of cirri and cumulus clouds inhabit the sky, predominantly at left. The arch of the sun's glowing light is faintly suggested near the top margin.
Stage Design, Interior of Large Hall
Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766, early 19th century
Pen and bistre ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of Gothic building with archways, opening views into various halls and staircase.
Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742, 1686–1740
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A design for an interior wall elevation depicting different possible wall treatments, each described below. In the center there is a chimney piece with two different styles and shapes for the mantlepiece, mirror and over-mirror paneling. The mirror is topped with a mask and feather motif. Bookcases set into the walls to the left of the chimney, with narrow paneling in between the two bookcases decorated with c-scroll, strapwork and fleurons ornament. The over-panels are decorated with a diaper pattern, a mask, shell ornament, and a vase. To the right of the chimney, another arched mirror or frame set into the paneling with diaper pattern, fleurons, masks, shell, rinceaux, and c-scroll ornament on the paneling and cornice frieze. Brackets with lidded vases on either side of the mirror. A door to the right, with a garniture of vases above the door. The descriptions are lettered below with a scale. THE plate is numbered and signed.
Paper Doll Costume with Pink and Green Skirts and Green Parasol
, 1876–80
Lithograph on heavy white wove paper
Print

Black shawl over pink and green tiered skirts; green parasol in right hand and pink parasol in left.
Rugged Mountain, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February 19, 1890
Graphite on off-white wove paper
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged, snow-capped mountain in Mexico, possibly the volcano Iztaccihuatl viewed from near Ozumba or Cuautla. In the middle distance, a low and heavily wooded ridge stretches across the landscape at lower center. Rising in the background, the craggy and snow-capped peak of an immense mountain dominates the composition. It has several rocky ridges and pointed sub-peaks, and its snow-covered summit is, itself, extremely rugged.
Inscription [above left]; Woman of the Apocalyse [above right]; Coronation of the Virgin [below left]; Frontispiece [below right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, ca. 1580–1605
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on two spuriously joined sheets of laid paper.
Drawing

Recto, above left: Italian inscription. 
Recto, above right: The winged Woman of the Apocalypse stands on a crescent moon, her child rising above her head. A many-headed dragon is at her left. 
Recto, below left: The Virgin, kneeling in the clouds, is crowned by Jesus (at right), and God the Father (at left).  
Recto, below right: Design for a frontispiece with columns flanking a center panel and putti above.  
Verso, left (inverted): A sideboard with dishes. (On the same sheet as recto, below.)  
Verso, right: St. George in armor on a rearing horse. (On the same sheet as recto, above.)
Frieze
, ca. 1860
Block printed and flocked on paper

Acanthus scrolls, on framework of reverse scrolls, in light yellow-orange and green on a dark red-orange flock field. Across top, leaf and tongue motif; across bottom, spiral ribbon motif.
Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762, 1737-1749
Etching on laid paper
Print

Vase with sphynxes sitting on the shoulder of the form. There is a ram's head knob at the center of the vase, placed between the sphynxes whose tails wrap together below the ram's head. The body of the vase is carved to appear like draped cloth. On the left and right side, where the cloth gathers, are goats' legs. The foot of the vase is scalloped, and the vase is elevated on a low, corniced socle. The print is lettered but is missing the numbering found in earlier editions.
Embroidery sample
, ca. 1770
silk, paper Technique: embroidered on cut supplementary warp pile (velvet)

Black ground embroidered in a design of naturalistic flowers in white, violet, green, light blue and orange.
View of Venice, Italy
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketches of the Grand Canal and the Ducal Palace in Venice.
Head of a Mule with a Bridle, Head of a Buffalo or Ox
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, 1872–73
Brush and gouache, graphite on dark grey-brown paper
Drawing

At left, head and neck of a bridled mule, turned toward right, At center, forepart of a buffalo, turned toward right and obliquely shown. A cord is fastened to the horns. Verso: A covered cart with two wheels, shown from the left back.
Ornamental Trophy Design
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820, 1775–76
Etching and engraving (crayon manner) in red ink on paper
Print

Ornamental trophy design with scrolling arabesque motifs, scrolling leaves, cornucopia of fruit, a helmet with feathers, foliate branches, crowns, and sun rays. The plate is numbered and signed.
Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771, 1753
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Full-page illustration for the poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat'. A cat stands on the rim of a tub drinking the water within an interior with a cabinet to the right. The scene is framed by a male and female herm pilaster on either side. Above the architectural frame is decorated with scrolls, acanthus leaves, and a floral and fretwork pattern, with a central cat mascaron, a mouse, two incense burners, a garland of flowers and draped fabric. Above the frame, a cage, two vases of flowers and a cat under pagoda structures on each end. The cat on the left is dressed in chinoiserie costume, holding a fishing rod, with a large vase underneath, with water pouring in from a shell suspended above. The cat on the right holds a large fishing net draped into a vase below. Below the frame, is a trophy of a lyre and a palette with paintbrushes, ornamented with ribbon, shell, and acanthus leaf motifs. The poet's initials are lettered on the lyre and the artists initials on the palette. With text lettered on the ribbon below. Above the trophy four mice look into the interior scene.
Title Page
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731, early 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page with the title lettered on a plinth framed by military motifs - coat of arms, swords, helmets, griffin, sphinx, banners, flags, spears, quivers of arrows, ram's heads, festoons of leaves, and foliate scrolls. The plate is signed.
Project for a Fountain
, 1725–1800
Pen and brown ink on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Water pours from two bowls into a round basin. Indistinct classical figure stands atop.
Pestilence of The Ocean
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1878
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Short story on a fever plaguing passenger on a boat
Study of a Young Woman
, ca. 1880
Brush and black ink, pen and black ink on light cream cardboard
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Study of a young woman wearing a long dress sitting in a chair, holding an open book (which appears to be a single long horizontal sheet) towards the spectator.
Chimneypiece Designs
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Two chimneypiece designs. The designs are divided in half to show variations in form and decoration. Between the chimneypieces is a panel of grotesque ornamentation. The plate is signed and numbered.
River and Mountain Peaks, Berchtesgaden, Germany
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1868
Graphite and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketches showing views of a distant, snow-capped mountain, visible between two ridges at right, and at left, a curving river with a wooded bank shown from an elevated perspective. Another faint outline of a mountain ridge is visible at lower right.

Verso: Vertical landscape sketch showing the sheer cliffs along the shores of the Königssee in Bavaria, Germany. At right, a vertical rock face is reflected in the waters of the lake below. At left, precipitous and layered mountains extend obliquely into the background. Two sharp peaks are visible at center.
Fragments
, 14th century
silk, metallic Technique: 5 harness satin patterned by plain weave

Grape vine and leaves in gold on green background
Elevation of a Gateway, Probably for a Kaffeehaus
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1788–1789
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Elevation of a Gateway, Probably for a Kaffeehaus.
Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross
Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575, ca. 1540
Black chalk, brush and brown wash, pen and brown ink on cream paper, lined
Drawing

At the bottom, a fluted shaft rises between two cherubim heads from a circular plinth.  Above is a "knob" decorated with drapery festoons supported by two rams' heads (at each side) and a child's head (at center), which supports the form above.  This form shows two masks hanging from the upper spirals of gaine scrolls which are projecting clasp-like (three of these are shown); atop the lateral gaine scrolls are harpy heads, which, together with a pedestal in the center, support a base for the vessel-shaped shaft above.  Flanking this vessel-shaped shaft are two women carrying capitals on their heads; the right one holds a small cross, the left one holds something that cannot be interpreted.  At the top, a circular, domed structure with steps, upon which two children/angels are seated at either side.
Design for a Coffee Urn
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868, 1820-1830
Pen and black ink, brush and gray, black wash on wover paper
drawing

The handle formed by two snakes on the right. The spout and a ring as a supplementary handle are at left. A shell surrounds the bottom of the body, and a band with a grape vine rinceau in the top section.
Plafond de la Chambre de Me.la Princesse de Rohan
Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754, after 1745
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Decoration of the ceiling of the bedroom of the princess de Rohan in the Hôtel de Soubise, currently a part of the French National Archives. The square ceiling has in its center a rocaille fleuron. The cornice is similarly ornamented with c-scrolls and s-scrolls. In the corners, and in the center of the edges, are cartouches with mythological scenes within, and carved mythological figures on top. The plate is numbered, but not signed. Comparative versions of this plate were signed with Pierre Edme Babel as the engraver.
Trophée de Chasse
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1773
Etching on paper
Print

Design for two rectangular decorative panels, a larger one in the center and a narrow one to the right. The panels feature rococo ornament and motifs including a border of scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, c-scrolls, flowers, wings, and festoons of flowers, with a central hunting trophy incorporating a basket of dead birds, powder flask, net, flowers, and a hunting rifle. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Papal Escutcheon
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, 1740–58
Pen and sepia ink on laid paper
Drawing

Sketch for an escutcheon with papal symbols.
Palace Garden with Fireworks
, ca. 1780
Cut paper on wood frame
Lantern slide

Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, two palaces at right and left in background. In foreground, fountain surrounded by embroidered parterre, with semicircular hedge and four obelisks. In center of sheet, radiating wheel and whorled wheel above. Translucent portions in white, blue, green, red, and yellow.
Fragment
, 12th–14th century
silk Technique: plain weave

Vertical fragment with a wide central band consisting of thin navy blue and black stripes surrounded by borders on either side of thin black and light brown stripes.
Slop Bowl
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751, ca. 1770
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
bowl

Outcurving side with cylindrical foot, with curved side. Decoration of floral sprays and butterflies.
Boat of Lake Leman (Lake Geneva)
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, August 1844
Graphite and black crayon on cream paper
Drawing

Sailboat with figures, moving toward the right. Pencil marks, upper left. Verso: Arithmetical figuring.
View on Southwest Head, Grand Manan Island, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1851
Graphite, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on light brown wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of rocky cliffs and the rugged coastline of Southwest Head on Grand Manan Island in Canada. In the foreground and middle distance, ocean water laps against a rocky shore that ascends, at left, to sheer cliffs and outcroppings made up of geometric pillars of rock known as basalt. Their flat planes and rectangular tops lend a sense of verticality to the composition's foreground. At far left, the tallest cliff has a wooded top and extends out of view. A sailboat floats near the rugged shoreline in the middle distance at right. Behind it, bright and wispy clouds inhabit a hazy sky above a flat ocean horizon.
Elevation of a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1796
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Facade of a small church, showing the use of the doric order. A variation of -1222. The main differences consist in the lower of the pediment and in details of the decoration.
Medallion
, 3rd–4th century
Warp; S-spun linen, Wefts; S-spun linen, S-spun wool, Technique; slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping.

A circle with a maze pattern in the center of an eight pointed star. Black on off-white ground.
Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet, Gondole ou Fauteuil de Bureau, [et] Profil du Feuteuil en Cabriolet
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Plan of a chair seat surrounded by three armchairs: two elevations, and one profile. The chairs are covered in a striped textile and the frame is carved with ornament motifs including fluting, acanthus leaf, rosette, scrolls, bead course, and interlinked piastre. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for Painted Cupola
, 1725–1750
Graphite, brush and grey wash on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle showing two small panels of a cupola with pendentives. Cherubs support a string of garlands.
Description of the Rock Wall, Verso
Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763, 1753
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Description of the automata of the "rocher" (continuation from the recto, 1921-6-201-25). At the bottom of the page is a vignette of a standing musician on a rocaille platform, surrounded by putti.
Imposte et Archivolte Dorique. Piedestal Circulaire. Piedestal en avant corps.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Architectural parts including a Doric Archivolt with its impost, and a scale bar to the left of "2 Modules" (marks around the arch with references to "1 Module"); a circular pedestal with ribbon drapery around the shaft near the top, and a plan of the column above; and a multi-faceted pedestal with a carved mascaron on front, and a plan of the pedestal above. The plate is signed and numbered.
A Capuchin Martyr
, 1780–1810
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Shown from the front standing in a landscape with a hut and palm, and holding the palm of the martyr in the right hand. Rays shine from heaven. Framing ink line.
Panel
, 1750–99
silk embroidered with metal thread and sequins on silk

Fragment of panel of pale blue silk grosgrain with border embroidered in gold metal thread and sequins in design of stiff symmetrical flower sprays connected by a linked chain.  Gold ribbon on three edges. Lined with white linen embroidered in cotton cross-stitch, lining probably part of a skirt originally.
Goblet and base
, 1700
Turned wood

Circular goblet is turned with ovoid body and central molded girdle. Baluster stem with ring moldings with lower termination in threaded screw that fits into splayed circular foot with concentric turned ring decoration.
Designs for Ornament, Fobs, and a Heraldic Device
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after, 1703
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An ornament print featuring roundels, two fob seals, a trophy of arms, and a heraldic device with scrolling acanthus leaves, crossed swords, a sun and a moon. The roundels and fobs are decorated with grotesque motifs (intertwining scrolling leaves, foliage, human and animal forms), with cartouches, and mascarons (masks). The plate is signed and numbered.
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and a Fob
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after, 1703
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An ornament print featuring roundels, a fob seal, and a border with grotesque motifs (intertwining scrolling leaves, foliage, human, and animal forms), with cartouches, mascarons (masks), fleurons, scrolling leaves, birds, a sun, and a lyre. The plate is signed and numbered.
Desk for Mrs. Allen, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas
Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959, 1917
Graphite on cream tracing paper
Drawing

Page divided into two registers horizontally about 2/3 down the page. Upper register, left: side view of desk with open left side and cubbies above surface visible; right: front view of desk, cubbies above writing surface and drawer below writing surface visible. Column of four small drawers at right side of desk.
Playing With Money
Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835, 1807–08
Pen and gray ink with watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper
Drawing

Seven men and boys, similar poses plate 14, loc. cit., are shown against a hilly background.
Samples
Orinoka Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, ca. 1910

a. pink ground with floral motif
b. tan ground with blue floral motif
Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Standard Window Design
Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942, October 1920
Pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper
Drawing

Design for a mass-operational house by Guimard, depicting construction of a standard window.
Portrait of Sally McKean, Marchioness of Yrujo
Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755–1828, ca. 1830
Steel engraving on paper
Print

Three quarter length portrait of Sally McKean, Marchioness of Yrujo, shown in a white dress, seated, facing one quarter to the right. She holds a fan in her right hand. Below, sitter's name and inscription.
Collar
, 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace appliqué on machine-made net

Collar with an ornamental border and sprays of roses.
Trimming
, 17th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: woven

Design with loops on both edges formed by carrying down the heavy wefts. In yellow silk and metallic thread.
Peep-show, Maison Quiserie de Magasins, pour la Marine du Roy, et une partie du Port de Plimouthe en Angelterre
, ca. 1750
Engraving in ink with washes of watercolor on paper, mounted on scrapbook page
Print

Peep-show print
Fringe
, 17th century
silk Technique: woven

Yellow fringe with a plain-woven heading and a skirt of course yellow threads.
Study of Plants at the Edge of Water, High Bridge
Walter Clark, American, 1848–1917, November 14, 1884
Graphite on paper
Album page

Study of large-leafed plants at the edge of water. The water is shown at left, and the base of a tree in the left rear. Verso: At right, the left part of a sketch of two clouds.
Design for a Waistcoat
, 1780-1790
Black crayon and various gouache on paper
Drawing

Lilac edges, lined brown on one of their sides. The decoration of the flap of the pocket is sketched: a plant growing from a fantastical feathery lace leaf. A similar motif is shown beneath the packet. Boughs grow from the edge of the waistcoat.
The Massacre of the Innocents
Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803, ca. 1780-1800
Engraving on paper
Print

In a city square, bordered by classical edifices, soldiers pursue and slay children.
Fringe
, 16th century
silk Technique: woven

Yellow fringe with a woven heading in a chain design. Skirt threads are looped.
Section, Small Domed Building
, ca. 1780
Pen and black ink, rose, brown and blue wash, black chalk on paper, with fragments of blue paper framing
Drawing

Temple in section and plan with porch and elliptical domed narthex behind which is nave with niches in walls and ending in apse.  On either side of porch are vertical rectangular wings/aisles; each with apses on three sides and four columns supporting entablature
Basket and contents
, 11th–14th century
rushes, cotton, wool, clay beads

Outer basket of plaited rushes partly covered with coarse undyed cotton cloth and a plaited multicolored wool cord. Inner basket of plaited rushes with cloth covering made with double warps and containing: four cotton fiber cones, one small loom with cotton warp and cotton weft on a shuttle, one shed tied to a stick; one wound with wool and cotton yarns and a tassel; two full thread holders, each made of crossed sticks; sixteen thorn spindles, each painted and with decorated clay bead; nine thorn spindles painted (four of these with hollow stem, substitute for bead); two long stem thread-holders with bead at each end wound with wool yarn; six pieces of stem wound with cotton; one long hank of undyed cotton yarn.
Royaume d'Irelande
Elisabeth Haussard, 1750
Etching
Print

Escutcheon with the title of the map of Ireland in "Atlas Universel" by Robert de Vaugondy, Paris, 1757.  The left top corner of the map.  Escucheon standing on a base, from which water flows in the center.
St. Mark, from The Four Evangelists
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550, 1541
Engraving on laid paper
print

Vertical rectangle. A winged figure, standing, facing left in profile. He holds a pen in his right hand; a book in his left hand. A lion lies at his feet.
Fragment
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Valenciennes ground)

Band of Milanese-style lace in a scroll pattern.
Sketch of the elevation of altars
, 1730–1760
Black chalk, pen, ink, brush and grey water colors on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Obverse. A) The entire central part is projecting. The mensa is supported by a convex bathtub of a kind. A moulded oblong frame is above the ledge. A triangular pediment is on top with two cherubim in a pedestal form, inside. Base line. Reverse. B) An oblong scrollwork frame is in the center of a tablet form. It has laterally on top cornices of a broken pediment directed outwards. A pedestal of a kind stands in the center having an angular entablature.
Fragment
, 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Lille-style with heavy outlining thread)

Fragment of Lille type bobbin lace
Woman wearing a hat
Jules de Goncourt, French, 1830 - 1870, 1845
Etching in black ink on Japan paper
Print

Vertical rectangle. Half-length figure of a woman, shown almost in profile, facing right.