biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode
E. Gailland, French, active 19th c., 1884
Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper
Print

A woman and four children hunting butterflies in meadows. A windmill beyond, left. Artists' and publisher's names and date below. Description on verso.
Design for a Jug
Noritake, Japan and New York, New York, USA, 1880–1910
Brush and watercolor, gold gouache, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Design for a jar in browns, with yellow flowers and green stalks that reach across body of jug; gold handle is pointed.
Elevation of Part of an Altar Retable, from "Architectura und Ausztheilung der V Seulen"
Wendel Dietterlinn the Elder, 1551 – 1599, 1593–94
Etching on white laid paper
Print

The design shows a portion of the left side of the retable, including the niche for the Host; statues of Saints are included at the sides and the architectural numbers are heavily overgrown with vine-like vegetation.
Purse
, 17th century
silk, metal Technique: tapestry woven

Small silk bag composed of four shield-shaped panels in cloth of silver brocaded in silk. A winged figure points to an inscription (indecipherable); a cornucopia of flowers; a sunburst. Panels joined by narrow gold braid, with draw cords of braided gold with tassels.
Sampler
Elvira Giovacchini, Italian, 1840
silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross and double running stitches on a plain weave foundation

Signature and floral motifs within 5.5 cm (2 3/16") border of the twelve Zodiac signs divided by season. In each corner is a picture of a person personifying one of the four seasons. Idea of Zodiac border continues from 15th-16th century woven tapestries.
Textile
, 19th century
cotton Technique: stenciled resist (katazome) on plain weave

Length of stencil resist (katazome) with ivory patter on blue ground. Pattern of vertical ogee containing either a full-faced flower or a leaf cluster.
That's No Good, the Squire Said, Quietly
Walter Appleton Clark, American, 1876–1906, 1897
Graphite and black crayon on illustration board
Drawing

Three men stand around a bed upon which a fourth lies on his stomach, hands bound behind him.
Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card
, 17th century
Stencil-colored woodblock print
Playing card

1909-22-1-1/35: Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards50;     1909-22-1-7: Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards.50
Covered Dish in the Form of a Red Cabbage or Tulip
Volkstedt-Rudolstadt Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1762, 1760–1790
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
dish

Tulip laid horizontally, with upper and lower portions of dish composed of full length petals.
Twilight, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 4, 1865
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Delicate landscape sketch showing a scene of the moon over a mountainous landscape in Jamaica at twilight. Near the bottom, a landscape made up of green foliage and brown mountains sits below a sky colored in a gradient from olive green to deep aquamarine. At center, several puffy clouds catch the pink and cream light of the setting sun. Above, the silver moon punctuates the darkening sky.
Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771, 1753
Letterpress and etching on laid paper
Bound print

First page of the poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard'. The text is letterpress printed with an etched illuminated letter ‘T', decorated with a church in the background. An etched and signed headpiece above, depicting a landscape with workers in a field, a man chopping a tree and another man in a cart with three horses pulling him through a river. In the background, a house, trees, and a hill. The scene is framed by c-scrolls, fleurons, acanthus leaf scrolls, flowers and a tambourine and horn above.
Tassel
, 19th century
wood core, metallic thread

Tassel with a turned wooden core covered with gilt thread in braided, looped and ring designs with skirt of twisted gilt threads. Cord of twisted strands runs through core and forms loop at top. Probably intended for ecclesiastical use.
Strangler Fig and its Host, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 1865
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Botanical sketch showing view of a parasitic strangler fig wrapped around a tree's trunk and lower boughs. Original tree is darkened to distinguish it from the parasite, which generally remains unshaded. Ants' nest visible in the crux of the tree's lower boughs. Another sketch of a section of a stem at upper right.
Two Vertical Arabesque Panel Designs
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s, 1765
Etching on laid paper
Print

Fourth plate from a series of ornament panel designs. Two vertical panels with arabesque and neoclassical motifs including feathers, leaves, vases, flowers, flaming torches, roundels, putti, festoons of leaves, flowers, and beads, fleurons, rinceaux, rosettes, scrolling acanthus leaves, ribbons, plinths, lamb's tongue, diaper, and vermicular repeating patterns. The plate is numbered.
Sketch for a Flying Angel
Placido Costanzi, Italian, 1702 - 1759, 1725–1759
Black chalk on paper
Drawing

Sketch of an angel, head at left. Body shown from the front, carrying a scroll. Framing line.
Distant Alps
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June - August, 1868
Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Peaks and patches of snow are shown across a ridge.
Ornamental Frame Design
, 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a rectangular frame, decorated with ornament motifs including a garland of flowers, reeds, shells, and a globe above a cartouche at the bottom.
Minerva, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris
, ca. 1690
Engraving on laid paper
Print

A contestant for Paris' apple, Minerva is armed and holds a shield with the Gorgon's head. The figure is set within a medallion on a dark field (sur fond noir) decorated with intricate grotesques.
Ecrans à l'Angloise
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Designs for three screens. The outer screens are raised on tall pedestals; the central screen stands on two feet. The screen supports feature carved decoration including scrolls, fluting,bound leaves, ribbon twist, gadrooning, lamb tongue, and egg and dart ornamentation. The plate is signed.
Sketches of a Backlit Cloud, Steamship, and Sailboat
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1865–75
Graphite on gray wove paper
Drawing

Mixed sketches showing views of a backlit cloud, a steamship, and a sailboat, likely near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. At upper left, three large sunbeams emanate from behind a billowing cloud that has a silver lining. At upper right, a steamship is shown in left profile as its plume of smoke dissipates off to the right. At lower right, a sailboat in left profile is included.
Heur et Malheur (Happiness and Woe)
Raymond Gayrard, French, 1777 - 1858, early 19th century
Cast silver
Token

Octagonal gambling token. Obverse shows the double bust of young Janus. Inscription: HEUR ET MALHEUR (happiness and woe) / GAYRARD-F. Reverse shows a kneeling farmer.
Fragment
, 17th century
linen, cotton Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft

Supplementary blue warp floating alternatively face to face creating a pattern of birds flanking a tree.
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789, ca. 1765
Pen and black ink, brush and pink, blue and gray wash, black chalk on paper
Drawing

Elevation of a building reminiscent of a prison with a square plan and flat roof or terrace. Three small figures can be seen standing there.  The building has rusticated walls and four Doric columns on the front facade.  There are three small entrances to the building.  The one in the center is at the base level while the two side entrances are elevated from the ground by a high foundation.  A large panel with an inscription is placed on the side of the terrace's balustrade.  Positioned against the main facade, at the center, is a sculptural grouping of "Justice."  It is placed directly above the central doorway.  Crowds of people surround the structure, and isolated persons or couples are dispersed elsewhere.