biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Pour un Buffet, une Commode, une Table, et un Bureaux
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791, 1763
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A plate with designs for four pieces of furniture decorated with neoclassical motifs and ornament. From top to bottom - the lower part of a buffet, a chest of drawers, a table, and a desk. The ornament features fluting, meander and geometric patterns, rosettes, profile portraits, cornucopia, festoons of laurel leaves, a vase, fluting, basket weave and acanthus leaf and ribbon moldings. A scale along the bottom. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Adoration of the Shepherds; Arcangle St. Michael after Raphael; St. Margarite after Raphael; Aloof de Wignancourt by Caravaggio; Putti; Study of the Flood; Verso: Disposition after Volterra; St. Ceclia after Raphael; Portion of Marriage of Henry IV to...
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1803–09
Pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper.
Drawing

Adoration of the Shepherds; Arcangle St. Michael after Raphael; St. Margarite after Raphael; Aloof de Wignancourt by Caravaggio; Putti; Study of the Flood; Verso: Disposition after Volterra; St. Ceclia after Raphael; Portion of Marriage of Henry IV to Marie de' Medici after Rubens.
Millinocket Lake, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1879
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch of Millinocket Lake in Maine, looking northeast towards hills and mountains near Mt. Katahdin. The partly cloudy sky rendered in soft gradient from warm yellow along horizon to deeper greenish blue along upper margin. Two prominences are visible across the lake--Wassataquoik and Kelloch Mountains are possibly included in the background at center and center right. Lower two-thirds of composition made up of purple-blue water that carifies into waves in the foreground. Yellow-green ground visible along lower margin.
Priest's Son, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1868
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Figure sketch of a small boy adorned in a turban and draped clothing, viewed from behind. 

Verso: Architectural sketch of a cubic building with adjoing wings and an arched arcade in its upper story.
Chandelier Design (Title Page Before Lettering)
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790, 1775–94
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Design for a chandelier and title page before lettering, incorporating flowers, foliate branches, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), ribbons, and quivers of arrows.
Plate 2, Projet d'un Trumeau de glace pour un grand cabinet fait pour le Portugal (Project for a Pier Glass for a Large Cabinet Made for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1740–48
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

Elaborate boiserie decoration with a tall pier mirror as the central focus and a rococo console table with a shell motif below. Candelabra flank the mirror, and a wall bracket with an arrangement of two ewers and one covered vase appear on the left. A Louis XV arm chair appears at left; a side chair at right.
Title Page
Gabriel Bonthomme, France, active ca. 1775, ca. 1775
Etching on paper
Print

Title page for a series of wrought iron balcony rail (or sections of balustrade) designs. The title is lettered in the center of a cartouche or frame featuring scrolling leaves, a garland of leaves, a lidded vase, beads, with scrolling and meandering bands. The publisher's address is lettered below.
Ornamental Vase Design
P. Moithey, French, active 18th century, 1767
Etching on laid paper
Print

Vase with a bouquet of flowers coming out of its mouth. The neck of the vase has spiraled fluting and a garland draped around it. There is a band of wave ornamentation at the neck of the vase, and repeating upright acanthus leaves at the bottom of the belly. The vase is elevated on a platform that extends to the edge of the image. The plate is numbered but not signed.
Study for "Hunting," "The Progress of Civilization: Hunting, Herding, Agriculture" State Capitol, Des Moines, IA
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, 1905–1906
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of a male figure with an animal skin draped over his head.
Ornamental Vase Design
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781, 1760
Etching on laid paper
Print

Oval vase with a narrow mouth. The vase is decorated with laurel leaf, meander, garland, and gadroon ornamentation. The vase is elevated on a low, simple plinth. The plate is signed and numbered.
St. Bartholomew's and the Watzmann from the Königssee, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1868
Graphite on blue wove paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of St. Bartholomew's Church backdropped by the rocky, serrated ridges of the Watzmann behind it, as seen from the eastern shores of the Königssee or the lake itself. Near the lower margin, the domed roofs of church are visible, partly reflected in the water below. Behind it, a wooded ridge descends to the right, while in the background, the extremely rugged mountainside of the Watzmann rises high into the sky.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing two views of the steep shores of the Königssee in Bavaria, present day Germany, separated at center by a horizontal line. Above, the waterfall known as the Schrainbach cascades over rocks on a wooded slope into the water below. In the lower drawing, a massive boulder or rock formation diagonally descends into the water to the left, while the tops of multiple conifer trees are visible behind it at left.
Factory, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1883–1884
Graphite on light green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Architecture sketch showing a view of a factory in Mexico. At center, a tall smokestack rises out of a complex of varied buildings. At center right, a large warehouse-type structure is visible, while the roof of another structure with a chimney is shown in the lower left corner. 

Verso: Figure and landscape sketches showing views of a standing man and a distant city in Mexico. At upper left, a standing man is shown in left profile as he holds a long rifle to his chest, which rests on the ground. He wears a brimmed cap and what appears to be a cape. Beside him at right are details of his face, hat, and legs. At lower center, a view of a cluster of distant city buildings is included.
Two Roman Busts
, late 18th century
Red crayon, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

A male and female bust in the antique style. Later added charcoal border.
Piédestal pour figure Equestre
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a pedestal for an equestrian statue decorated with acanthus leaf, fluting, lion head, faux text, garland, portrait medallion, and ribbon twist. The plate is signed.
Fragment
, 1750–1800
silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile in a satin foundation (pile-on-pile velvet)

Small and very incomplete fragment with a white satin ground and large-scale floral design in salmon, pink, maroon, and green cut and uncut pile.
Stage Design, Chapel in Churchyard
, early 19th century
Pen and black ink, brush and gray and pink wash, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Chapel in possible churchyard, trees around.
Etui
, 19th century
Silver

Narrow oval in section, with hinged top and push-button closing.  Engraved cartouches formed by C-scrolls, one containing the monogram "AB." Inside fitted for four lancets.
Sidewall
, 1845–55
Block-printed paper

At right side, an architectural detail of a portico with steps. On left side from top to bottom, an array of flowers are festooned, mostly roses with morning glories at top. A small pond at bottom from which grow water grasses. Printed in brown, green, and ivory on tan field.
Embroidery sample
, ca. 1770
silk, paper Technique: embroidered on a cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) Label: Satin, stem, and knot stitches embroidered in silk on silk cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet); paper enclosure

Multicolored silk embroidery in a floral design on a dark purple ground with a small purple dot design.
Entrance wall of a salon
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Entrance wall of a salon.
Veuë du Chateau neuf de St. Germain en Laye
Gabriel Perelle, French, 1604–1677, 1660–1703
Etching on laid paper
Print

View of the garden façade of the palace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye with the parterre planting in the foreground, with garden walls with arches along the sides, and figures walking along the paths. In the background, double staircases leading to the palace. Trees in the background and framing the scene in the foreground. The plate is titled and signed.
Panel
, 18th century
silk Technique: embroidered on satin weave

Vertical panel of white satin embroidered in multicolored silks in a design of landscape scenes. At bottom is lotus and bamboo. Above is a pagoda over the water where a woman and child sit watching a boat with two passengers and a boatman. Above this, are small group of trees, rocks, birds, etc. At center is a group of two women with basket and staff. Above them is a fisherman. At top, fragments of landscape with a portion of a tree with feathery foliage, clouds and a flying bird.
Apollo and Daphne
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1796–98
Pencil, pen and black ink, brush and watercolors on Paper.
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Apollo reaches the nymph who, begins to be changed into a laurel tree. Her father Peneus is shown in the right middle plane. Caption: 5 in a hexagon above in black chalk. Calvina says: for the Teatro della Condordia, Jesi, Cavina Vol. II, P. 813, AI. 379
Village of Al Kiswah, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April–May 1868
Graphite and white gouache on gray-green paperboard; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a small village called Al Kiswah in Syria, south of Damascus, with Mt. Hermon in the background. The foreground consists of gently rolling terrain covered in wheat that descends to a road at right. In the middle distance, past a stream and a wooded area, the mosque and various buildings of the village are shown. At right, the mosque's minaret towers over the other structures. In the background, the partially snow-capped peak of Mt. Hermon dominates the horizon at left. 

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a road following the curving of a stream beside a wooded. A figure with at least two animals is shown walking along the road at lower center, while a rolling mountain range comprises the horizon in the background.
Project for a Ceiling
, 1750–1800
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and wash in paper
Drawing

An arch topped by a shell with a wind's head and flanked by brackets of which only the right one is shown, supports an entablature serving as a frame for the central pictures.
Grand Evening Sky Above Hill Tops
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1866
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a dramatic, possibly stormy clouds rising above wooded hilltops in the evening sky. In the foreground at left, a rounded hilltop is shown with several tall and narrow trees. Above, billowing clouds are simultaneously brightly lit and enshrouded in darkness. A possible bolt of lightning is visible in the cloud at upper center left. Other distant, puffy clouds are shown at center.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of an expansive sunset over a rolling mountain ridge. Colored clouds extend from the viewer's position to the horizon and beyond. The outline of an undulating ridge forms the horizon.
Designs for Silver Tureen
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, 1769
Graphite, pen and sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
Drawing

The tureen rests upon birds. Handles and cover finial with fishes. Several sketches of other suggestions for the handles and the masks which ought to be fixed at the lower edge of the cover.
Title Page: Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809, 1775–86
Etching on laid paper
Print

A rococo cartouche design and title page with the title and address lettered below the design. The cartouche features columns on the side, with masks, vases with shells and corals, festoons of flowers, shell, c-scroll, fluting, fleurons, foliate branches, and acanthus leaf motifs with strapwork and hoof feet. The plate is numbered and lettered.
Bobbins
, 1100–1400
wood bobbins, cotton and wool yarns

Eleven small wooden bobbins painted at one end and bluntly pointed at the other end. Blue, brown, tan and red cotton and woolen yarns wound loosely around the group.
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780–1790
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Orange edges with rows of blue beads along the lateral and bottom edges of the flap of the pocket and the edges of the waistcoat. Bows form lozenges in much of which a flower bough is shown.
L’Heureux Moment
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755, 1736
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A rococo ornament print featuring c-scrolls, scrolling acanthus leaves, fluting, and a basket of flowers in the foreground. In the background, a curtain pulled back reveals an interior scene with a woman seated on a chair with a man behind her looking up at her. To the left, a large table draped with textiles and a festoon of leaves, with a mirror and boxes. Carved paneling line the walls of the room. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Stage Design, Apollo with Famous Men and Muses
, early 19th century
Pen and bistre ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Apollo in front of temple portico surrounded by Muses and famous men, identified by inscriptions on the stairs below which they are standing. Men include Homer, Dante, Alfieri, Virgilio, and others.
Men
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1885–1886
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Four sketches of male figures in distinct groupings.
Project for an Ewer and Basin
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819, ca. 1800
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Design to be executed in partial gilt silver. Edge of the basin is shown, from which the ewer rises. Shown in profile with spout at right. Lower portion of the body decorated with leaves. Angular handle and spout composed of the head and neck of a bird.
Cheminée à la Moderne
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a fireplace decorated with ornament including scrolls, acanthus leaves, ribbon twist, and egg and dart. The plate is signed.
Project for a Fountain
, 1800–1825
Pen and black ink, brush and gray and blue wash, traces of graphite, on off-white laid paper
Drawing

A statue of Neptune stands in a niche which is flanked by narrow wall panels. The water pours from a dolphin. The plan underneath shows that the wall with the niche stands between two water basins, in front and in the rear. Underneath: the scale, "Dodeci Palmi Romani".
PLAN ET ELÉVA.ON DU BALDAQUIN DE L'AB.E ST. GERMAIN DES PREZ
Pierre Roguié, French, ca. 1713– after 1753, mid- 18th century
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Elevation of the baldachin in the abbey of St. Germain de Près, which is decorated with a frieze of the crucifix and saints set in ogival arches, a statue of a crucifix, kneeling angels, Corinthian capitals, rinceaux, and a cross on a sphere (globe).
Sketch, Deposition (?) with Heavenly Figures
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Pen and ink, graphite, on paper
Drawing

Sketch, Deposition (?) with Heavenly Figures.
Battle of the Sea Gods, right half
Andrea Mantegna, Italian, ca. 1431 - 1506, ca. 1475
Engraving on laid paper
Print

In marshy shallows, three male sea gods battle each other and two water satyrs. The water satyr on the left, armed with a club and a monster's head, is carrying a sea nymph on his back, who looks away from the battle in fear. The sea satyr on the right is armed with a hatchet and struggles to resist the grip of a sea god behind him. Meanwhile, another sea god blows a horn to rouse the spirits of the fighters, while the third is whacking left-and-right at the sea-satyrs with two fish. In the rushes in the background, serpents and sea creatures lurk.
Design for a Panel with Two Mirrors
, before 1742
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

The edge of the design of right half (2) is pasted over that of a left half (1).  Either design includes an upper oval and a lower oblong mirror.  (1) suggests horizontal lower mirror, (2) vertical lower mirror.  Either design suggests a female mask in the top center of the upper mirror, (A) a second one in the bottom center of the upper mirror and a vase over the center of the bottom mirror.
Designs for Fifteen Side Chairs
, ca. 1805
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white laid paper
Drawing

Fifteen side chairs shown in front elevation, arranged in three rows. All of the chairs have upholstered seats showing a variety of textile patterns.
Mount
, early 19th century
Brass

Polygon with straight lower edge. Repoussé figure of a reclining woman facing right.
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 landscape with trees, flowers, and foliage, with a plinth or altar in the center on steps. The alter is decorated with garlands of flowers and a cartouche with a putto, and flames, a quiver of arrows and a bow on top. In the background a fantastical arched trellis canopy, decorated with rocaille motifs. The plate is numbered.
Sketchbook Page: Pansies
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, 1875
Graphite on paper
Sketchbook folio

SKetches of pansies or violets with colors notations throughout.
Textile
, 1800–1850
cotton Technique: printed

Lightweight glazed chintz with a tan ground printed in a pattern of natural size flower clusters in shades of red with green leaves. Clusters are in an alternate or staggered position joined by perpendicular, stiff, heavily curved ribbons with shaded effect probably by roller. Ribbons alternate in yellow or red.
Sampler
Harriet McEwen, English, 1830
silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, chain, stem, and square stitches on plain weave foundation

Four alphabets, one with numerals at the top.  Verse: "Tis education that conform the mind, and make it rise superior to its kind, wisdom and worth are by instruction given, these lead to virtue, happiness, and heaven.  Harriet McEwen, aged 9 years 1830."  Potted plants and flower basket at bottom.  Floral border at edge.
Traveling Spoon with Ivory Handle
, ca. 1798–1809
ivory, silver
spoon

Small oval spoon bowl, rattail on the back of bowl; flat stem, drop bolster. Plain rectangular ferrule, pistol-shaped handle of carved ivory with beaded cresting on top of handle and halfway on one side. End of handle carved on front and back with snail-shell and drop-shaped ornaments.
Fountain at Nevers
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925, 1883
Graphite on pink paper
Drawing

Round fountain in courtyard, with two children nearby. Left, small child stand, right child has left arm in water. Figures walking and standing in the background.
Sidewall
, 1850–60
Machine-printed paper

Conventionalized vase form with flower clusters, in drop repeating arrangement. Beads with pendants are looped in the intervening spaces. Eleven colors on brown ground.
Study of landscape, Sorrento, Italy
William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900, 1858
Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of a hill with the Bay of Naples in the background.
Waves Breaking on Rocks with Cliffs and Possible Fog
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905, 1870–85
Graphite on cream wove paper, bound
Sketchbook folio

Rough waves crash against three rocks in left middleground. In left background, tall, lightly-sketched cliffs fade out at the right, possibly into a fog bank.
Woman's blouse
, 19th century
cotton Technique: embroidery

Woman's blouse densely embroidered in dark green on natural cotton. Long, full sleeves trimmed with bobbin lace at the cuff. Neck and shoulders embroidered with geometric and floral forms. Paschal lamb is on each sleeve.
The Battlefield at Beaver Dam Creek
Harry Fenn, American, 1845–1911, 1885
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

View of the battlefield. In the middle ground, Ellerson's mill; left background, the Cattin farmhouse.
Fragment
, 16th–17th century
silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a woven foundation

Fragment of dark blue cut and uncut velvet in a small-scale symmetrical pattern of plants and foliage.
Border
, mid-18th century
linen, cotton Technique: bobbin lace (Valenciennes ground)

Border showing freely spaced floral garlands forming continuous intertwining serpentine shape.
Fragment
, 18th century
silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask

Dark red damask with an oblong shaped geometrical design. Green selvage.
Ceiling paper
Hobbs, Benton & Heath, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

All-over fill pattern of foliate sprigs. Printed in yellow ocher on light tan ground.
Playing at Soldiers
, ca. 1800
cotton Technique: printed on plain weave
Square

Small square of cream-colored cotton, printed, copperplate, in red. Three scenes: center, in oval - boys in a schoolyard "Playing at Soldiers [inscription above].  At top, boys with bows and arrows, shooting the target; inscription above "Shrove Tide." Bottom, group of boys and older people on shore, with sticks and swords, looking at battle at sea between two sailing ships. Inscription: "Prepared for Invasion."
Sidewall
Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797, 1850–1900
Block-printed, canvas mount

Roses and foliate forms and scrollwork, gray and blue. Pale gray ground has sprig diaper.
North Dome, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins, American, 1829 – 1916, 1861–66
Albumen silver print
Photograph

View of mountain in the distance with pine trees, stream and rocks in the foreground.
Ceiling paper
Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper

On light gray ground, treillage of wreaths in tan with burgundy fleurs de lis and floral motifs.
Ceiling paper
Robert Graves Co., New York, New York, 1907–1908
Machine-printed paper

Clusters of leaves widely spaced, with random pattern of vines running across the background. Printed in green and brown on tan ground.
View of the Ocean and Cliffs with Possible Shrine on Path
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905, 1890–1900
Pen and black ink on off-white wove paper
Sketchbook folio

Large craggy cliff in right foreground wwith road twisting around it and out of view, and a (possible) shrine structure. Below and in the distance, choppy ocean out to horizon. Dramatic, cloudy sky.
Design for a Plate
Noritake, Japan and New York, New York, USA, 1880–1910
Brush and gold gouache, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Design for a plate decorated with gold C-scrolls and trellis; at center a floral motif within a circle. Several sketches of tableware in graphite, upper margin.
Chintz fragments
, 18th century
cotton Technique: mordant painted and dyed; blue applied by brush over resist; yellow applied by brush; chintz on plain weave

Floral design with large exotic blooms in reds and blue, on a black speckled ground.
Paisley Decoration
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853, ca. 1880
Silver, copper, niello
Matchsafe

Oblong, with rounded sides and corners, featuring silver, winding, flowered tendrils attached to larger, central, paisley motif, center of flower forms punctuated with copper, all on darker steely-gray ground; reverse features same decoration. Lid, hinged on side, has protruding, rounded lip running along its lower edge; initials, possibly YM, engraved on lid top. Small, oval shaped striker on bottom.