biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Designs for an overdoor with a papal escutcheon
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Left row: Above: below is the upper part of the doorframe, in rustic. It is bordered above by moldings, upon which stands an oblong panel for an inscription. Above it stands a base with a couch, in which the escutcheon is supprted by two angels. Below: a slightly obliquely shown attic, pediment with the escutcheon below the half circular part of the rim. Right row: like the upper design at left, without the tablet and the doorframe. Below: like the design at left the pediment standing upon a pedestal. Colored background.
Designs for Sculpted Ornament on Plinths
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748, 1748
Etching on paper
Print

Two designs for ornamental metalwork, possibly bases for candelabra or other ecclesiastical objects, flanked by winged putti (children). The ornament features c-scrolls, fleurons, scrolling leaves, and floral motifs.
Jerusalem by Moonlight
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, March 31, 1868
Graphite on gray wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Jerusalem by moonlight, as viewed from the Mount of Olives. In the foreground, the nearby slope of the Mount is shown with the top of a tree beside an indistinct structure. Across the lower, shaded area, where the Garden of Gethsemane is situated, the eastern wall of Jerusalem is visible with the Dome of the Rock shown just beyond it at center right. Various trees and buildings are shown throughout the city, which extends beyond the softly arching horizon.
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, 18th century
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, steel
fork

Part of a set with knife (a). Fork (b): Three tine fork with tapering tubular porcelain handle. White ground decorated with blue and white stylized flowers.
Elevaon de l’Entrée de Monsr. Jabba (Upper Plate) / Elevation du devant de l’Edifice de Monsr. Jabba (Lower Plate)
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two plates printed on a single sheet, one above the other. Architectural elevations of two different large buildings with similar structures featuring windows framed by pilasters, niches with statues, portrait busts, pediments, festoons of leaves, roundels, balustrades, coat of arms, metopes, friezes, and rosettes. The plates are titled and signed.
Designs After Architecture Fragments
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Page printed with two plates (each divided into two) depicting architecture fragments including aedicules, vases, pediments, cornices, and fountains. The plates are numbered but not signed.
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: bead and bar course on the edges surrounding bouquets of flowers and fruit; bead course on the edges surrounding stylized acanthus leaves draped with flowers; and two variations of stylized acanthus leaves with bead details. The plate is signed and numbered.
Dans les dunes: Souvenir du bois de la Haye (In the Dunes: Souvenir of the Woods at the Hauge)
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, French, 1796 – 1875, 1869
Etching in black ink on cream colored paper
Print

Trees, at left, border on a heath; roofs of cottages in the left background.
Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647, 1647-55
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a chimney piece (fireplace, mantel and overmantel) with classical motifs. The mantel is decorated with a fluted molding, scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, s-scrolls, festoons of leaves, a round medallion with profile portraits, foliate branches, and snakes. The overmantel features a large, sculpted military trophy of arms and armor and a flaming altar, including a griffin, lion, armor, shields, spears, axes, spears, a quiver of arrows, and swords. A scale below. The plate is numbered.
Design for a Fantastical Landscape
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784, 1756
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A design for a fantastical landscape from a suite of six. A garden landscape with a classical building to the right with columns and a frieze, decorated with putti and sprigs of flowers and garlands. To the left, a garden wall with a basket and flowers. In the background trees and clouds and in the foreground foliage, leaves, and flowers. The plate is numbered.
A Peasant's House at a Lake
Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876, ca. 1840
Graphite on paper
Drawing

A road is passing by, center foreground. Stairs lead to a door in the upper floor. At left is an open barn. Outlined frame.
Design for a Room Wall
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design and plan for a back wall of a room with empty paneling. The design is interspersed with chairs. The plate is signed and numbered.
Le Feu
P. Moithey, French, active 18th century, 1773
Etching on laid paper
Print

A design for a trophy representing fire incorporating a cannon ball, canon, fireworks, a flaming torch, rifle, tambourine, a mask, garland of laurel leaves, and foliate branches. The plate is titled, signed, and dated.
Portrait of the Emperor Joseph II
Emperor Joseph II House of Habsburg-Lorraine, Austrian, 1741 - 1790, 1765–1770
Black chalk, white heightening on paper
Drawing

Figure shown in three-quarter profile, turning toward right, wearing a collared shirt knotted in back.
Design for a Woven Fabric
, 1825–1850
Graphite, blue, purple, and lateritious gouche on oily tracing paper
Drawing

Narrow and wider vertical stripes are to alternate. The wide stripes, also the halves of the narrow ones which border them, are alternatively colored lateritious and blue and lateritious and purple lozenges decorate the narrow stripes; wings of a windmill alternating with motifs composed of four triangles decorate the wider ones. Diamonds and triangles respectively are shown between the wings. Interior divisions are sketched in graphite.
Sketches from Narragansett, Rhode Island
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, 1871
Pencil, pen, brown ink. Reverse: with water colors, white gouache. Gray paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle.  Obverse: Oblique view of a grazing ox and the center part of his body, shown in profile, turned toward left.  The hind legs and an eye are shown respectively in the top corners.  The upper part of the body when going under the yoke is shown form the front, center right.  Three busts of men, one of them slightly sketched.  A cart with two wheels.  Reverse, in opposite direction:  The head of an ox, slightly oblique, shown from the left side.
Cornice Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Two cornice designs, one above the other. The top cornice is decorated with piastre, bead and bar, fluting, and lamb tongue ornamentation. The profile is indicated at left. The bottom cornice design is decorated with acanthus leaf, bead course, egg and dart, and ribbon twist with dowel ornamentation. The profile is indicated at left. The plate is signed and numbered but does not indicate an album letter.
Design for the Decoration of a Candle with Bracket
, 1655–67
Pen and ink, graphite on laid paper
Drawing

Design for the decoration of a candle. Upon the candle is a medallion with a representation of the figure of St. Luke painting the Madonna; above and below are scrolls of ribbon. Above, of what seems to be the front of the bracket, is an escutcheon with the coat of arms of Pope Alexander VII, with only the charges of the mounts and the star. Below the right half of the frame of an escutcheon, with a head in the center on top. Uneven left edge.
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Kneeling toward the right. The friar is in the middle ground at right. Framing graphite line. Parts of outline are deeply impressed.
Towel cover
, 1826
cotton on linen Technique: withdrawn element with darned motifs

Towel cover ornamented with two cross borders in zigzag lines with stars. One border topped with a row of conventialized trees worked in cross stitch. Two open seams with embroidery. Band of drawnwork showing people, birds in a tee. Flowers and stars in darning stitch. Remains of fringe at top and bottom.
Moonlit Ships, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1890–93
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Drawing

Sketch from Mexico showing a moonlit view of ships anchored in harbor. In the foreground at left, two ships with multiple masts are viewed from their sterns, while a buoy or rock is visible in the middle distance at far left. In the background, the orb of the full moon hovers just above a flat horizon.
Frieze
Duppa and Slodden, ca. 1820
Block printed on handmade paper

Against a light brown ground is printed a boldly drawn ivy vine, spirally wrapped around a central stalk. Both vine and stalk are printed in two values of grayed yellow heightened with dark green and dark red.
The Rear View of a Mansion
Unknown, Italian, 1550-1600
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Two winged stairs lead to the central door. The latter is flanked by two windows on either side. Outside are wall panels with rustic works. In the upper floor are five window openings in an arcade between wall panels similar to those in the main floor. The subdivisions of the lower windows are shown.
L'Odorat
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1758–89
Etching on laid paper
Print

Print titled ‘Smell' from a series of six prints, (including title page) depicting personifications of the five senses, represented by chinoiserie figures within rococo-style cartouches. A man stands in the middle of a cartouche, surrounded by grass and plants, holding flowers in both hands. The cartouche is decorated with rococo-style ornament with flowers and sprigs. The title is lettered below and the print is signed.
Sketches for Escutcheons
, ca. 1590
Pen and dark brown inks, brush and black wash on laid paper. On verso: Black chalk, pen and ink, bistre on laid paper.
Drawing

Masks are shown at top and bottom, half-figures of harpies laterally. Both are fully colored. On verso: two elongated escutcheons, the left one without ornamentation, the right one with two foliated masks facing each other.
Neptune
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Graphite, red wash on paper
Drawing

Neptune is shown seated in clouds with a trident in his left hand.
Design for the Embroidery of the Right Bottom Corner of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, ca. 1785
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Rectangular corner. Green edges. T he lateral and bottom ones of the pocket and those of the waistcoat show inside indented borderes with dots and leaf staffs. A currant festoon hangs from the top edge of the pocket. The waiscoat shows flower boughs, turnip and onion plants and small leaves.
Designs for Allegorical Figures
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719, late 17th–early 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Sixteen designs for allegorical and military figures, including justice and peace. The plate is numbered.
Ceres and Triptolemus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1800–1820
Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Roundel design showing scheme for medal with agricultural trophy in lower part.  Ceres holds cornucopia and Triptolemus with lighted torch stand in chariot drawn by lions mounted at right. Woman and putti with trumpets, sheaves accompany them.
Woman
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879–1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a seated female figure wearing a dress.
Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Elevation of a building with three levels. The ground level has three arches with statues of mythological figures interspersed, and a wall texture with indication of rustication. The second level has tall windows and scrolling iron balconies. Over the top level is a pediment decorated with a mythological scene of Helios or Apollo in his chariot. The title of the series printed in one of the arches at lower left. An inscription at the bottom of the page indicates that this design was part of a project for the stables of the Palais Royal in Paris. The plate is not signed but is numbered.
Mount Washington from Ellis River, Looking North
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, September 11, 1854
Graphite and black crayon on cream wove paper
Drawing

Rocks and trees on river bank in foreground. Water and then mountains beyond.
LA FONTAINE DE LA TENAILLE a Chantilli
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

View of a large fountain in the gardens at Chantilly, a central circular basin with a large fountain and jets of water with a ramp behind. In the foreground, there are paths, trees, and two circular basins with jets of water. Trees in the background and framing the scene. Figures (courtiers) throughout. The plate is titled.
Fragments
, 19th century
silk, cotton, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft

Tan (originally orange) ground with a design of single flower stems with leaves and bud brocaded in blue, green, and black silk and silver metallic thread.
Textile
, 19th century
silk and metal Technique: plain compound satin, brocaded

Undulating stems with flowers and fruit in polychrome silks and gold on a rust satin ground. The gold threads are gilded strips of paper cut to fit the desired pattern; not a true brocading technique.
Figure
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Partial sketch of a female figure.
Design for a Main Altar
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780-1783
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

A variation of -1372, seen from the corners. The lateral groups stand upon isolated, baluster-like shaped pedestals. Angels sit at the front, above the entablature, others laterally. The niche is without conch or other architectural decoration. The entablature is convex at the front. No tabernacle. Usual background.
Duchesse (No. 4), from Recueil de différents Muebles garniers Comme Fauteuils (Liard's "Suites")
Matthew Liard, English, ca. 1736–1782, 1762
Etching on cream laid paper
Print

Duchesse cushion decorated with rinceaux; arms and back in floral and curved Rococo motif.
A Bouquet of Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1760
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Seventh plate from a series of designs for bouquets of flowers. In the center a bouquet of flowers, four large flowers, with smaller ones, on their stems with leaves and buds. The plate is signed.
Fragment
, 18th century
cotton Technique: relief printed on plain weave

Stylistic flowers in purple, light blue and black on an off-white ground
Design for an Escutcheon in Form of Boat with Sail, for Recueil Nouveau de Differens Cartouches
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761, 1734
Pen and brush and black ink, wash, graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

A dragon and another fantastic animal are on the boat.  Writing is indicated in the escutcheon.
Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1793
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white paper
Drawing

A variation of 1938-88-1288, without door. The rectangular part of the pyramid is decorated with reliefs; on top of them stand medallions, with a garland dragging from above. Father above is a band with an inscription.
Pemadumcook Pine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 3, 1878
Graphite on white wove paper
drawing

Botanical sketch showing a view of a single pine tree on the shore of Pemadumcook Lake in Maine. Shown at center, the tree has a lush, layered canopy that reveals its columnar trunk throughout its length. Suggestions of terrain are loosely sketched at the base of the tree.
Design for a table with decorated base
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1780
Brush and black and grey wash, pen and black ink on paper
Drawing

Design for a table supported in the center by a fluted column, decorated in its middle with a relief displaying figures surrounded by a drapery festoon hanging from ram's heads. A secondary leg springs from the lower corner of the frame of the relief and is supported by a lion's foot.
View of a villa
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1792–1794
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Two curved flights of stairs lead to the portico of four columns with a triangular pediment. Cross-like plan with convex segments in the corners. Basement and two main stories. Low dome in the center. Trees in the left rear. Right top corner: "12", vertically. Possibly for the Villa Poniatowsky.
Piedestal pour figure debout [et] pour figure assise
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Two designs for pedestals, one for a standing figure (top) and one for a seated figure (bottom). The pedestals are decorated with ornament motifs including egg and dart, garland, bound leaf, ribbon, and medallion. The plate is signed.
Two Young Girls
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1879
Charcoal, brush, and white gouache on brown-gray laid paper
Drawing

In a grassy field, beneath light white clouds, two young girls stand facing left, holding each other's shoulders.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, linen net foundation Technique: embroidery on hand knotted net Label: Silk embroidery on hand-knotted linen net

Large-scale multicolored scrolling floral design on light brown knotted net.
Blue Mountains near Kingston, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 1865
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing view of a mountain ridge in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica. Mountains are partially illuminated at left, but largely shaded by storm clouds at center and right. Range's succeeding slopes become hazy and indistinct as they recede due to atmospheric perspective. Green treetops are visible in the immediate foreground along the lower margin.
Band
, 19th century
cotton Technique: embroidered

Band solidly embroidered with yellow-orange cotton in a simple geometric pattern. The border has been cut from a blouse on which there are traces of black embroidery.
Skirt front
, 18th century
silk embroidery on silk foundation, lined with linen Technique: embroidered in satin and stem stitches on satin weave

Skirt front panel of ivory silk satin, seamed down the center front, with a slit for a pocket and a tie closure. Embroidered in polychrome silks with various flowers including tulip, rose, carnation, columbine, and others, with stems worked in silver and gold thread. Border at bottom of scalloped shaped frame to flowers worked in gold thread. At the center bottom, a shield-shaped medallion framed by feathers and with a plumed helmet at the top; inside the medallion is a bull with a star above his head. At the top edge, silver lace and soft ruching, and the remains of green raw silk tie tapes; lined with white linen.
Wall Decoration, Plate IX from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)
Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808, 1772–77
Brush and watercolor, gouache over etching on white wove paper
Print

Several vertical designs in mouldings. On the left, green rinceaux in curls, with squirrels and cameo-style elements; other designs include: winged putti, standing soldier, lion head, intertwined griffins, a ribbon with Greek key pattern, groups of fruit attached to a red pole. Scale below.
Screen
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853, ca. 1905
Favrile glass, patinated bronze

Three vertically rectangular panels of marbleized glass, each panel framed with narrow copper edging oxidized to green and orange-red tones with two small ball feet at each end. The panels are hinged together by means of wire at juncture of feet and screen. Cut out copper overlay.  Glass marbleized in tones of red, green and amber with cut out overlay in "Spider web" pattern.
Cover for card case
, 18th century
silk, paper, paillettes Technique:

Cover is ornamented by bits of brocade showing three openings in paper, which has been cut out in floral and bird designs. Edges of cover are shaped and bound with gilt paper.
Woman's Head and a Face
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on cream wove paper
Drawing

Woman's head in left profile, at right. Face with mustache, at left. Verso: Man's head, left; right, plan for "division of staircase windows, Shamrock Cliff."
Textile
, 19th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft

Pink, white and pale yellow-green plaid with a brocaded design of geometric figures combined with highly stylized floral motifs.
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Lieutenant
Georg Philip Rugendas, German, 1666–1742, ca. 1730
Mezzotint engraving in dark brown ink on paper
Print

A mounted lieutenant is seen facing three-quarters frontally; his horse rears toward the right. In the background, mounted troops.
Fragment
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Mechlin style

Mechlin ground with snowball ground.
Fragment
, 16th century
linen Technique: withdrawn element

Fragment with wheel-like shapes within squares.
Studies for a Wall Panel
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Above, graphite sketch of reclining woman, arm outstretched toward an open book held by putto. Center, similar composition in brush and watercolor. Additional putto at right.
Fragments
, 17th century
silk, metallic Technique: woven

Asymmetrical branches with floral decoration in brown, white, gold and silver.
Fragment
, 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Lille style with heavy outlining thread)

Border fragment of Lille-style lace in a highly conventionalized floral design. Small square dots above.
Plate 5, "Decoration d'une Portal double à placards dans son chambrante fermé..."
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774, ca. 1727
Engraving on paper
Print

A design for one double door decorated with rocaille carving. The arched overdoor holds a painting of putti making music. Below, profile. Inscribed along upper margin: "Decoration de Porte à placards dans son chambrante fermé par le haut en anse de panier / cette porte s'ouvre quarrement sous le tableau qui lui sert de couronnement"; lower left: "Mariette excudit"; lower right: "5".
Panelling of the Bathroom in Palais Bourbon
Jacques Gabriel, 1667–1742, ca. 1727
Etching on paper
Print

Paneling of the toilette-room with designs of seals below. A corner niche with shelves and closet below. Paneling with curved outline horizontally. Inscribed, upper margin: "Decoration du cabinet d'aisance du Palais de Bourbon, du côté de la niche  dans la quelle est logé le siege. Profile de la niche ou est le siège […] / tablettes". Explanations of drawings inscribed, lower right: "Mariette exc."
The Tournament
John Sartain, American, 1808–1897, 1847
Mezzotint and engraving in black ink on paper
Print

Vertical rectangle. In the square before St. Mark's, a reviewing stand is shown, filled with spectators. In front of it, and in the foreground, a tournament is seen: Two horsemen in contact at center, others lined up at sides.
Portrait of Georgiana Davis
Martha S. Day, 1860
Pencil on Paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Bust portrait, the sitter seen in right profile. Inscribed, lower right (in pencil): "Georgiana Davis / from life by Martha S. Day 1860."
Collar
, late 19th century
linen Technique: needle lace

Collar in a design of flowers and leaves.
Fragments
, possibly 18th century
silk, metallic Technique: woven double cloth

Woven fragments have a design of densely arranged red and white quatrefoils.