biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Borders
, 1875–1906
Machine-printed

Wallpaper roll.
Multiple bead-and-reel borders printed across width. Printed in shades of brown on tan ground.
Study of a Capital and Base
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925, 1879
Graphite and white heightening on beige paper
Drawing

Corinthian Capital, rounded base, fluted column.
Textile
, 1850–1865
silk, wool Technique: compound satin weave

Irregularly cut pieces possibly intended for a sofa in bright and dark green and white. Large-scale design shows stylized symmetrical leaf and flower motifs within broad vertical stripes which are separated by bright green stripes containing arabesques and row of cabochon forms in dark green and white.
Wooded Landscape with Hills
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1870–80
Oil on cardboard
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of wooded terrain and distant mountains under a largely clear sky, possibly near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. At center, a dense grove of trees catches the orange light of the rising or setting sun, at left. In the background, a low but rugged mountain range rendered in light purple forms the horizon. Above sporadic clouds hang in a light gradient sky.
Burning of the Borgo, after Raphael
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, late 18th century
Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash over black chalk on laid paper
Drawing

Woman carrying water.  Inspired after figure in "Burning of the Borgo" by Raphael. Figure at extreme right in Raphael's painting.
Printing block
, 18th century
wood

Carved block for printing textiles in a design showing people, peacock, and plant forms in a chinoiserie style. Grooves in the sides for handling.
Tail Piece
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1877
Printed in black ink and red ink on blue paper
Ephemera

Background, upper left, sun, surprised, yelling police; right, group of animals watching boy and alligator, hippo and cranes. Foreground, profile of young child facing left, with arms outstretched, as if surprised; right, alligator pulls the bottom of child's shirt. Lower left, sketch of smiling crab.
Fishing Trophy Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Trophy design incorporating foliate branches, festoon of flowers, nets, axe, and fish. The plate is numbered.
Peasants Listening to Itinerant Musicians
Giovanni Andrea Coppola, Italian, 1597 - 1659, ca. 1665
Red crayon, pen and brown ink on paper; verso: pen and ink, brush and sepia wash
Drawing

An old man is playing a harp. A figure of a boy, holding a scroll, is singing; a dog is asleep on the left. The peasants, either standing or sitting, are gathered around the musicians. The background shows a view of a mountainous landscape with trees and houses. Verso: the upper part of a sketch depicting a mountainous landscape with trees and houses.
Dessein de Cheminée et de Lambris de l'invention du Sr. Pineau
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754, 1700-1742
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Chimneypiece Design with over-mantle mirror and carved paneling. The chimneypice has scrolls on the side that split into leaves; the center features a scallop detail. The top of the frame of the mirror has a female mascaron in a cartouche, surrounded by scrolls and garlands of flowers. The panels to the side and above feature scrolls and garlands; the left also has a trophy with musical instruments, while the right panel has an elaborated scroll design.  At the bottom of the plate is a cross section of the "Plan du Chambranle / et de la tablette" as well as a scale of four French feet ("4 pieds"). The plate is numbered but not signed.
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 with different wall treatments featuring glass-paneled windows, doors, paneling, and wall lights (wall sconces). The decoration features diaper patterns, medallions with scenes and figures, trophies, strapwork, masks (mascarons), shells, moldings, marble, brackets, friezes, fleurons, and c-scrolls. The plate is before lettering with the outline of a scale below.
Ruined House and Figures, Switzerland
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1868
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Field sketch showing a view of a ruined house on a plain near the alps in Switzerland. A telegraph pole with wires stands beside the house at center. Distant mountains loom over the scene in the background. At upper left, a hunched figure walking with a cane is visible, while at lower right, a woman is showing hauling a large, laden basket.
Project for an Alter Lamp
, ca. 1800
Chalk, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Lamp supported by three chains suspended by ring. At center of lamp, a medallion with two figures. Flanking this, two angels and sculptural figures. The one at left, a cross; the one at right, an anchor. At bottom, the papal keys and tiara.
Title Page
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811, 1776–89
Crayon manner etching in red ink on paper
Print

Title page and arabesque ornament design featuring two winged female torsos with bird heads and scrolling leaves as legs, decorated with a mask (mascaron), and foliate branches. The plate is titled and numbered.
Profil du dedans de la cour et du petit Jardin de l’Hostel de Liancourt
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

An architectural exterior elevation with section views of interiors and a floor plan below of a Parisian Hôtel particulier (grand house). The façade features three floors with horizontal banded rustication, windows framed by pilasters, dormer windows with cartouches, vase finials, and friezes. The interior features a statue in a niche, overdoor portrait busts, and ceiling decoration.  A scale below. The plate is titled and signed
Design for a Firedog
Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795, 1780-1790
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

A bronze base supporting the seated figure of a winged sphinx, facing left in profile. Upon the head of the figure is a basket of flowers.
Interior Wall Elevation
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741, 1696–1740
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

An interior wall elevation with a chimney piece and overmantel mirror in the center, flanked by paneling (boiseries) and large mirrors with over mirror frames, decorated with rococo motifs and ornament including c-scrolls, s-scrolls, shells, cartouches, masks (mascarons), leafy sprigs, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, vases, and scrolling acanthus leaves. The over mirror frames are in the shape of cartouches with small, lidded vases on brackets on either side. The frieze of the entablature has corbels and a diaper pattern. A plan view below the chimney piece to illustrate the shape of the mantel from above.
Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, probably July 1858
Graphite on off-white wove paper
drawing

Mixed figure sketches showing eight views of geese with two partial and complete figures, likely seen in East Hampton, New York. Four sketches are included in the upper portion of the composition: a seated goose viewed from above at left, a goose with a raised head viewed from behind at center left, the head and twisting neck of a grooming goose and center right, and the head and body of a lying goose at right. At lower left, a grazing goose viewed in right profile and the elongated head and neck of a goose in left profile are included. At center right, a grazing goose is viewed obliquely from behind while the raised head and neck of a goose is shown at far right. At lower center, the upper portion of a figure wearing a wide brimmed hat is visible in right profile. And finally, in the lower right corner, a figure wearing a hat and tattered jacket carries a bindle over his shoulder and walks to the right.
Title Page
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811, 1776–89
Crayon manner etching on paper
Print

Title page and two details of frieze designs, one above the other, featuring a putto on a goat, birds, flowers, lyre, foliate branches, festoons of leaves and fruit, mask (mascaron), ribbons, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The plate is titled and numbered.
Sampler
Sarah C. Neal, American, 1826
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, and stem stitches on plain weave foundation

Bands of alphabets and numerals with geometric cross borders, and an inscription. 
In the lower half, baskets of flowering vines and birds fill the field. With a black and white diamond border.
Chintz Bar and Broken Dishes
, mid-19th century
cotton Technique: pieced and sewn patchwork of roller-printed plain weave fabrics
Patchwork quilt top

Patchwork quilt top made of six broad whole-cloth strips and five narrow patchwork strips. The patchwork strips are made up of small square and triangular pieces in tans, browns, and dark blue. The strips on the two outer edges have a very distinctive leaf pattern on a lattice ground in off-white on brown, while the whole-cloth strips in the center are a small-scale floral in blue and tan on a brown ground.
Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1811–14
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Square shown on market day. City Hall in rear, Palazzo del Podestà at right, fountain of Neptune between; inscribed at left bottom corner: 57 Piazza di Bologna. At right, two Renaissance capitals. On verso: besides bottom parts of designs -1380: columns three details of arcades.
Project for a Ceiling Frieze
, mid- 17th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white heightening on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Trapezoid. At left, half an escutcheon with scrolling acanthus leaves. At left, two putto with a flower garland. Undecorated entablature at top.
Design for Brooch with Dolphins and Diamonds
, 16th century
Pen and ink, brush and sepia on paper
Drawing

An escutcheon is composed of two symmetrically disposed dolphins above and below. At the sides, festoons and shells. At the center, an octagonal diamond surrounded by round diamonds and scattered gems.
Band
, 3rd–4th century
Warp; S-spun linen. Wefts; Z-spun linen, Z-spun wool Woven

Geometric designs based on circles.
Fragment
, 17th century
Meduim: silk Technique: 4&1 satin damask

Diagonal branches with leaves in green and yellow
“The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason” from the series The Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyaku’nin Isshu Uba-ga-Etoki)
, 1839
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

Travelers setting out at the first blush of dawn shows pairs of men running with heavy cargo balancing on their shoulders — two sets in the foreground alternate between men who are carrying bails of round sacks. Shown in the bottom right corner is a man bent over to fix his sandal with his heavy load resting on the side. The background shows a trail of workers running further in the distance. In front of them is a slower group of people hunched over as they walk towards the rising sun. Throughout the landscape are meandering trails and the silhouette of a forest just beyond the horizon.
Plant Sketch
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 26, 1856
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Drawing

Botanical sketch showing a view of a plant that resembles tobacco, likely in or near Hudson, New York. The plant's stem rises along the composition's central vertical axis while its broad and striated leaves radiate in every direction, growing smaller as they go up.
The Virgin with the Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820-1850
Brush and brown-gray watercolor on paper
Drawing

The Virgin, in open country, with her right hand resting on the handle of a basket in which the Child lies. At right, in the background, is a farmhouse. Framing line.
L’Amour Couronnée
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755, 1736
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A rococo ornament print featuring two putti seated amongst clouds, holding a crown and quiver of arrows. The putti sit within a large scrolling acanthus leaf ornament with c-scrolls, cartouches, shells, festoons of flowers, fluting and a vignette with nude figures. The ornament is set within a landscape with trees and clouds in the background. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Study from Nature
Thomas Doughty, American, 1793–1856, 1833
Graphite on buff paper
Drawing

A rocky shore, with small breakers.
Plan du Jardin du Palais des Thuilleries de l’invention de Mr. Le Nôtre comme il est à present
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Plan of the gardens of the Tuileries Palace in Paris with its parterre and staircases. The sections are lettered with an explanatory legend below. Scales for the staircases and garden plan. The river along the top, and the palace along the left side. The plate is titled and signed.
Sidewall
Nancy McClelland, Inc., 1920
Block-printed paper

Printed for Nancy McClelland of New York City. A garden scene of a playing fountain with clipped boxwood in boxes. Two statues and portion of a trellised arbor. At top of repeat are festooned swags of flowers topped by a basket of flowers. Printed in pink, rose and tête de négre on old Roman gold field.
Button
, 18th century
Copper, nickel

Component -c is on card 4
Circular buttons of copper with nickel band ornamented with eight-petalled flowers and lozenges in brass; floral spray painted in color as central ornament. Floral spray on -d slightly different from -a/c.
Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722, 1749–61
Etching on laid paper
Print

Seventh plate from a series of bifurcated arabesque/ grotesque panel designs with a different design on the left and right side of the plate. The ornament features a central female seated figure surrounded by a canopy, trees, foliage, a dog, two other female figures on steps leading up to the central woman, fleurons, rinceaux, scrolling leaves, bat wing motif, birds, strapwork, bow and quivers of arrows, architectural details, vases and baskets of flowers, fruit, drapery, netting, and rosettes. The plate is numbered and signed.
Le Portail de la Chapelle de Monsieur de Montmorency, fait à Molins en Bourbonnois
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

An architectural elevation of the front façade of a chapel with stairs leading up to the door, pilasters above supporting a pediment with coat of arms and a festoon of leaves. A cross above the pediment and a cupola on the roof. The plate is titled and signed.
Preparatory Study for the Sculpture of Queen Leszczynska as Juno
Guillaume Coustou, French, 1677 – 1746, 1726–31
red chalk on laid paper (verso: red chalk, pen and ink)
Drawing

Vertical format. A woman is shown standing between two figures.  Her right hand covers something carried by the left one, possibly a jar.  The upper part of another figure is shown beside her left foot.
Verso: Two studies of boys' heads, and part of a third one.  One is shown in profile, turned toward left; the other is in opposite direction and shown in three-quarter profile.
Mount Lebanon, near Baalbek, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 6, 1868
Graphite and gouache on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Mt. Sannine in the Mount Lebanon range in central Lebanon, as seen from across the Beqaa Valley. The flat terrain of the fertile valley extends from foreground to middle distance, where it meets the foothills of the mountain range. The foothills slowly ascend to the gently arching peak of Mt. Sannine, which is covered in snowfields.
Fragment
, 14th century
silk Technique: two integrated fabric structures, 2/1 twill and plain weave

Affronted hounds between stylized leaves in olive green and tan.
Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1738–72
Etching on cream laid paper
Bound print

Lidded vase with finial. Three putti support the vase on their backs. The vase is decorated with fluting; at the shoulder of the vase are three lion's masks with rings in their mouths, connected by festoon drapery. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for a Candlestick
, mid- 19th century
Brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on paper
Drawing

Design for a candlestick. The triangular base is supported by three lion feet. The coat of arms of a prince Borghese is at the front. Cherubim are at the upper corners. The shaft of a baluster (foliated in its lower part) standing upon a reversed calyx, decorated with festoons in its upper parts. Above stand a bowl and a socket. The lower part of a candle is shown. Below is a breen base. Framing line below.
Stage Design: Garden Architecture
, ca. 1700
Pen and bistre, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle showing quarter section of garden pavilion with three aisles, the center aisle leading to a fountain.  In upper region, allegorical sculptures with cut hedges.
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 at left has a top block with a round rosette, a cove of cascading acanthus leaves, a flat wound round with a garland of roses, and fluting down the shaft. The leg at right features a top block with  a carved palmette, a shoulder with bound laurel leaves, and a fluted shaft, near the bottom of which is bead and leaf cabling and acanthus leaves. The plate is signed and numbered, although the page has been trimmed and the bottom half of the plate number is cut off.
Moses Rock, near the Catskill Mountain House, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1844
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the massive rock known as Moses Rock near the Catskill Mountain House near Catskill, New York. The face of the rock is visible at center with water dripping down it. At left and right, several trees with twisting, intermingling branches frame the view at left and right. Loosely-rendered foliage is shown growing atop the rock itself in the middle distance.

Verso: Lanscape sketch showing a south-facing view of the a rugged ridge of the Catskill Mountains with layers of puffy clouds overhead, likely seen from or near Catskill, New York. The left portion of the ridge appears to be crossed-out.
Bénitier pour le Lit
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783, 1748
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a liturgical stoup decorated with ornament motifs including winged cherub heads and clouds. The plate is signed and numbered.
A Winged Victory Inscribing the Date 1805 on a Shield
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1805
Pen and black ink on paper
Drawing

A female genius is shown in profile turned toward right and writing upon a shield, "1805," which like other weapons stands upon a pedestal. The framing line is divided into 6 parts above and below, in somewhat more than 7 parts laterally. The divisions and figures are written with graphite.
Tiles
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, n.d.
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Partial sketch of decorative tiles.
Frieze
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, 1640–50
Etching on white laid paper
Print

Acanthus rinceaux originate from the half-figure of a man seated upon a base and holding a festoon, at right. An eagle and a lion menace each other. (RB'44)
Three Chinese Men Playing Dominoes in a Baxter Street Club-House, New York City
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, ca. 1874
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Horizontal view of three Chinese men seated at a table, where two of the men are playing dominoes while the third man watches.
Decorative door boss and nail
, 15th–17th century
Wrought iron

Square type, pierced and embossed with wrought lines. Quadrant leaf design based on old examples. Leaves defined with parallel lines. Square, domed nail head on a square shank.
Fishing Trophy Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Trophy design incorporating foliate branches, flowers, hook, nets, buckets of fish, and a paddle. The plate is numbered.
Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles
Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century, late 17th–early 18th century
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Title page and ornament designs for goldsmith's engravings for the use on gold boxes, powder boxes, portrait boxes, and perfume bottles featuring heraldry, arabesque and grotesque ornament, scrolling leaves, fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, masks (mascarons), diaper patterns, animals, flowers, birds, mythological creatures, sphynx, shells, cartouches, strapwork, fluting, wave running patterns, and gadrooning. The plate is numbered and signed with the publisher's address.
Painted Decoration with Alternate Suggestions
, ca. 1800
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Wall elevation with grotesque decoration. Two doors with alternative surrounds. Wall decorated with griffins and candelabrum.  Entablature shows guilloche and three tablets with figures.
LA BOTANIQUE.
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761, 1738
etching and engraving on paper
Bound print

1921-6-211: Album with eight prints of allegorical overdoor pa...;     1921-6-211-3: Print after an overdoor painting of an allegory of...
Engraving
, 18th century
Black ink and watercolors on paper

Horizontal. Circle of picnickers in a mountain setting, engaged in playing a guessing game in which one player, kneeling, buries his head in the lap of another while the rest touch the upturned hand which lies across his back. Carmine, green, yellow.
Family Scene: Feeding a Baby
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1751
Etching on laid paper
Print

An interior family scene. A woman seated in the center feeds a baby on her lap with a spoon. A man behind her holds a plate for her. A younger boy seated to the right of the woman, holds a cat who is looking at the baby. To the left of the baby, a crib and two chickens in the foreground. The interior is rustic, with a window and a shelf above to the right and baskets and a lantern to the left, with a ladder in the background. The title of the series is lettered above and numbered. The plate is signed.
Falls of Yosemite
Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926, 1872
Recto: Brush and blue watercolor, black and gray wash, and graphite on tan paper Verso: Graphite on tan paper
Drawing

Recto: Vertical view with a mountain river winding from the foreground to a rugged range of mountains in the distance.
Verso: Horizontal sketch of mountain range.
Family register sampler
Sarah A. Chalker, American, 1819 - 1879, 1832
silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation

Dark ground with light embroidery. At the top, three alphabets and one set of numerals. In the center, an arched framework with an incomplete record of the names, births and deaths of the children of Jesse Chalker and Sarah Andruswae (?), married January 10, 1818. Verses fill the space on either side: 

Abstain from all appearance of evil

For the son of man is to come to save that which was lost

Verily verily I say unto you he that believeth in me shall have everlasting life

Prove all things hold fast that which is good

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God

For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near

With an inscription in the lower right corner.
Profile of Horse's Head With Bridle Shown In Profile
, 18th century
Red crayon on paper
Drawing

Study of a horse's head seen in profile
Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1785-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Four designs for borders, stacked vertically on the plate. From top to bottom, the borders are in the forms of: interlinked piastre; lamb's tongue with bead course; ribbon twist over acanthus leaves surrounded by draped garland; and a guilloche with rosettes within and acanthus leaves in the margins. The plate is signed and numbered.