biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Grille pour une Chapelle
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for an iron gate decorated with ornament motifs including rosettes, acanthus leaves, pinecones, garland, and a central cross. The plate is signed.
Stage Design, Pedestal of Monument
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826, ca. 1800
Pen and ink, graphite on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Pedestal of monument on stairs, buildings in background.
Two Designs for Earrings
, early 19th century
Pen and ink, brush and gray, olive watercolor on wove paper
Drawing

Jewelry design for earrings. The left one is marked with the number "1." Similar to 1938-88-5342 but with a double-sloped ring and one kind of diamond. Number "2" has two rows of diamonds on the front of the double-sloped ring and below two interlocked rings of diamonds.
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, 1720–1730
hard paste porcelain, gold
tea bowl and saucer

Round, tapering form cup with circular ring foot that has gold chinoiserie decoration on the surface.  Images of figures engaged in various activities such as eating, drinking, and playing instruments are in the center and birds, monkeys, and a rat are included in the scene.  Interior rim of the cup is decorated in a gold scalloped border with lines and scrolls.  The saucer is a basic round form with faded gold chinoiserie decoration in the center and a gold scalloped bordered with lines and scrolls around the edge. In the center of the saucer, there are two figures, a palm tree, scroll decoration and other forms of foliage.
Sketch of a Cloudy Sky
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1870–75
Graphite on white laid paper
Drawing

Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a view of a cloudy sky, likely over the Hudson River Valley of New York. At lower center, a loosely rendered mountain range forms an undulating horizon across the composition, with two stick figure trees at right. Above, a tumultuous mix of puffy and hazy clouds are variously illuminated in dark and light tones by the light of the sun. At center, a series of particularly dark clouds arches across the sky.
Twilight at Sea, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June–July 1859
Oil on paperboard
drawing

Seascape sketch showing a view of twilight over the ocean near Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The dark, purple-brown water extends from the foreground to the flat, distant horizon.The twilight sky is characterized by a rich, saturated gradient from orange-red along the horizon to yellow-green above. The edges of a long, dark cloud bank along the upper margin are lit pink by the setting sun.
Buckles
, 19th century
Steel, diamond paste

Two buckles, similar but not a pair.  D-shaped buckles with frames of steel with cut paste diamonds; prongs and fastener of steel.
Title Page
Moreau, French, active 18th century, 1762
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Cartouche design surmounted with a coronet and flanked with a pair of extended wings. The plate is signed.
Ornament Design with Hercules
Paul Androuet Du Cerceau, French, 1623/30 – 1710, 1669–93
Etching on laid paper
Print

Second plate from a series of six ornament plates featuring mythological scenes. An octagonal medallion in the center depicts Hercules, wearing his lions' skin, strangling a half-man half beast creature. The medallion is rests on a plinth or socle ornamented with a mask with garlands of flowers, and foliate scrolls and acanthus leaves emanating from it and surrounding the central medallion. The ornament features acanthus leaves, scrolling branches, vine leaves and grapes, garlands of fleurons, rosettes, ribbons with an eagle surmounting the central medallion.  The plate is numbered and signed.
Urania
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, 1780–90
Black crayon, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Female figure is standing beside what seems to be a sarcophagus, between the pediment and the mask at the corner of which she supports the globe. She holds a long stick in her left hand.
Détails d’une Glaciere, surmontée d’une Salle de Danse Egyptienne, de Volieres, et d’un kiosque pour le Parc de Mr Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural print with an interior sectional view, three floorplans, and a detail of the columns and capitals for an Egyptian style ballroom built over an icehouse. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Portrait of Charles II of Spain (1661-1700)
, 1665-1670
Engraving on paper
Print

Charles II as a young boy of about six years of age at the time he was proclaimed king. The handsome boy with long blond hair is depicted in three-quarter view to left. He wears the royal robe with the order of Toison d'or; his name inscribed on the frame, below.
Susan and Child Facing Each Other
Mary Cassatt, American, 1844 - 1926, ca. 1883
Black ink on cream paper
Print

Half length figure of young woman, with a child facing to the left. Lower portions in outline only.
Design for a Console Table and Looking Glass
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1790-1800
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Top: the upper part of the looking glass. It is oblong and flanked by deepened stripes with hanging fruit garlands. On top is a deepened oblong panel in which is an octangon with a flying putto framed by mouldings. In the upper corners hang festoons, in the lower ones stand displayed eagles, connected by a festoon. Bottom: the console table, shown in profile, turned toward left. The top, an entablature, is supported by a wall at the back, by a seated griffon in front. Colored background.
Fragment
, 10th–12th century
linen, silk Technique: plain weave; cross stitch and long-armed cross stitch

Natural-colored linen cloth embroidered with dark blue silk in single horizontal band in a geometrical leaf and stem pattern.
Fragment
, 4th–5th century
Warp; S-spun linen. Wefts; S-spun linen, S-spun wool Technique: slit tapestry

Oval medallion in the form of a leaf.
Sampler
A.M., early 19th century
cotton Technique: satin, overcast, buttonhole, eyelet and drawnwork stitches on plain weave

Initials "A.M." and the word "Le Temps" with a representation of time surrounded by a floral border with cornucopia and musical instruments at corners. Edges unfinished.
Magdalen
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, ca. 1775–1800
Stipple engraving on white paper
Print

The head and shoulders of Mary Magdalene. Her head tilts to her left, her eyes lifted upward.
A Sauce Boat
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868, 1827–35
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Side view; boat supported by a globe and a turtle. The handle consists of two horns of a satyr mask. Spout is turned left.
Plan du rez de chassée de l'Hôtel de Ville dont la cour étoit décorée en sallon ou s'est le bal le 28 Fevrier 1745.
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756, 1751
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Plan of the set-up for the masked ball at the Hôtel de Ville given in honor of the marriage of Louis Dauphin and Maria Teresa of Spain given on February 28, 1745
Scrapbook of ribbons and trimmings
, 1900–1910
cotton, silk, metallic thread

Contains about 915 samples of trimmings and ribbons, numbered by hand in pencil. Note written on last page reads "Foreign Reference No. 1."
Band
, ca. 1890
cotton Technique: machine made

Band of ecru lace made in imitation of Alençon. Design shows serpentine bands of flowers alternating with serpentine lines.
Title Page
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1777–79
Etching on paper
Print

Title page and design for two rectangular decorative panels, a larger one in the center and a narrow one to the right. The panels feature arabesque motifs including scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, flowers, leafy branches, and a basket of fruit. The plate is titled and numbered.
Design for two bracelets
Augusto Castellani, Roman, 1829 - 1914, ca. 1858–80
Pen and black ink, graphite, brush and pale yellow wash on white wove paper
Drawing

One above the other. Above: in the center an oval frame joined with a smaller similar frame at the sides, the bigger parts of which consist of chains. Below: between two thin chains are suspended twelve disks; in eleven of which is a letter each of: NONRELINQVES.
Frontispiece, Soleil executé en argent pour les religieuses Carmelites de Poitiers en 1727, Livre d'Orfeverie d'Eglise, Treisieme Livre des Oeuvres de J. A. Messionnier (Silver Sun Made by the Carmelites of Poitiers in 1727)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1740
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

Candlestick on footed pedestal; curved feet and central medallion depicting a lamb. Flanking pedestal are two putti heads gazing upward. Body of candlestick made of twisted grapevines and bunches of grapes, leaves, and wheat stalks; ends in a large sun-like mirror surrounded by rays and nine putti heads.
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) of architecture fragments including tombs, cartouches, reliefs, cornices, and grotesque ornamentation. The plates are numbered but not signed.
Design with a Young Cadet with his Tutor in a Garden with a Fountain
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 18th century
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Scene of a young cadet in a garden with a fountain. The plate is signed and numbered.
Three Nude men
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844, late 18th century
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Two nude men speak together while a third sits upon a square stone. Verso text: Candelle Tappolo Pistone di netro.
Trimming
, late 18th century
linen Technique: appliqué on net, bobbin lace

Curving branches and bands of openwork.
Sketches from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 20, 1869
Graphite on light brown wove paper
drawing

Architecture sketch showing various views of ancient ruins around the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. At far right, the northeastern corner of the Propylaia is shown with several standing, intact columns and a largely broken entablature. At upper center, a corner of the Parthenon is visible beyond a ruinous wall at center. At lower center, bricks and stones are included, while at upper left, the caryatid in the southwest corner of the Erechtheion is shown above a ruinous wall, looking out towards a rolling landscape.
Sampler
, ca. 1750–75
silk and wool embroidery, wool foundation Technique: cross, double running, satin and laid stitches on plain weave

People, plant ornament, birds and verse in horizontal bands.
Ornamental Frame Design
P. Moithey, French, active 18th century, 1773
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a rectangular frame decorated with ornament motifs including a helmet, a quiver, a bow, fasces, flag, bead and bar course, ribbon twist. scrolls, and rinceaux.
View of Venice, Italy
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1880–1881
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of gondolas and sailboats in Venice.
Mount
, early 19th century
Brass

Irregular triangle with repoussé nude with helmet raising a club over a kneeling centaur. Possibly representing Herakles and Nessus.
Sampler
Charlotte Smallbone, 1799
silk embroidery on wool Technique: satin, cross, tent and stem stitches on plain weave

Trees, baskets of flowers, verse, house with trees and people.  Signature "Charlotte Smallbone finished this sampler in the 10th year of her age 1799."  Surrounded by a floral border.
Purse
, 18th century
silk and metal-wrapped silk Technique: stranded knitting

Miser's purse type, knitted in colored silks with ornamentation in bands showing conventionalized forms and spread eagles with crown and the words "S.D. Casparre Nicoletti." Partially lined in red silk.
Lit à Chaire à Precher
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1779-90
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a canopy bed (baldachin) (front view) with two supporting posts bending inwards to support a smaller crown canopy (baldachin) along the side of the bed. The headboard and footboard are the same height and decorated with acorn finials, scrolling leaves, and upholstered with a striped pattern. The bed linen is decorated with floral and scrolling leaf motifs. The crown is topped with an acorn finial and corner feather finials, and ornamented with floral and scalloped textiles, with hanging tassels. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. A scale below.
Title Page
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755, 1736
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page for a series of seven designs for rococo ornament, cartouches and vignettes of figures and rocaille motifs. The title is lettered in the center within a cartouche framed by gadrooning, acanthus leaves, shell, and c-scroll motifs, topped with a book, and Mercury's caduceus and winged hat. The central cartouche is in a landscape with a carved base within rocks and trees in the background. A putto sits in front of the cartouche holding a book, while another putto stands with a burin facing the cartouche, writing the title. The address is lettered along the bottom.
Alcove with Jupiter Appearing to Semele in all his Glory
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, 1658–1703
Etching on laid paper
Print

A scene with a tent-like canopy bed in an alcove with figures. The figure of Semele is sitting on the bed while winged putti pull back the canopy to reveal the flying figure of the god Jupiter (Zeus) amongst clouds and holding lightning bolts. The scene is from Greek and Roman mythology. The alcove and flanking walls are decorated with carved moldings, cornice, pilasters, and a male statue on a plinth. The scene is described below.
Two Ornamental Trophy Designs
Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781, 1729–61
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Two designs for hanging ornamental trophies (side by side). Left: trophy representing the arts and sciences with a globe, cornucopia, rulers, measuring devices, calipers, palette, paint brushes, female portrait bust, a book, prints, ribbons, crown, horn, sheets of music, and a caduceus. Right: trophy representing music with flutes, tambourine, horns, triangle, guitar, flowers, and an anvil. The plate is numbered and signed.
Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, ca. 1900
Photomechanical print
Bound print

Architectural cartouche with the series title printed in the center. The plate is  numbered but not signed.
Design for an Altar
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, ca. 1750
Graphite, brush and black wash on cream paper
Drawing

In the scheme of a convex altar retable with a dome. The front shows a representation of an Ascension in an arch.  Inscription escutcheons on top and at the dado. Statues stand laterally and sit upon pediments. An enthroned figure and two angels on top. Left side of the plan underneath.
Sampler
Eliza J. Benneson, American, possibly 1825
silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, stem, eyelet, rococo, running, and satin stitches on plain weave foundation

The center field contains several bands of alphabets, a verse surrounded by grape vines, and the inscription, with a small landscape of animals and insects. With a deep, naturalistic floral border of roses, tulips, carnations, and other flowers, with a pineapple at the top.
The verse reads: 
Let my few remaining days
Be devoted to thy praise
So the last, the closing scene
Shall be tranquil and serene
Arabesque Ornament Design
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840, 1787–95
Etching on laid paper
Print

A vertical plate with an arabesque ornament design featuring Neoclassical and Empire style motifs - mythological creatures and figures, butterflies, dragonflies, squirrels, monkeys, trophies, vases, griffins, scrolling acanthus leaves and foliage, rosettes, festoons, vignettes with figures, putti, lions, and an Apollo head mask. The plate is numbered.
Venus and Cupid and Satyr, Study after Correggio
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1813–18
Pen and brown ink, brush and dark brown wash, over traces of black chalk on white laid paper
Sketchbook folio

Antiope reclines at center, apparently asleep. Beside her is sleeping Cupid with quiver of arrows. Satyr embracing reeds, looks at  from the upper left corner.
Figural Sketch with a Seated Girl Conversing with a Standing Girl
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844, early 19th century
Pen and ink on light brown paper
Drawing

A seated girl, wearing a crown of flowers, converses with a standing girl.
Tile
, late 18th–early 19th century
Earthenware, glazed and high fire decorated

Man in reddish 18th century cistume, grabbing his cloak with his left and holding out his hat with his right.
Fragments
, 18th century
silk, metal on linen core Technique: lampas (plain weave and 3/1 twill)

Large scale symmetrical design of fruit, flowers, leaves and arabesques in silver on various twill bindings.
Title Page
Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726, 1710
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Title page for a series of prints depicting the ornament and interiors of the King's apartment at the Royal palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, part of the Cabinet du Roi (King's Cabinet) series published by the Imprimerie Royale. The title is lettered within an ornamental arch, within a larger ornamental frame. The frame and arch are decorated with arabesque and grotesque motifs, with fleurons, rosettes, masks, strapwork, flowers, shells, garlands, and cornucopias. The inner arch is supported by columns flanked by herms, and cartouches with interlaced L's. Winged Sphynx support the arch on each side. In the lower center, a base with floral fretwork, shell, fleurons, flowers, and acanthus leaf motifs supports a young boy holding an arrow and a flame, with birds on either side. The plate is signed, numbered, and dated.
Fragment
, 17th century
linen Technique: needlework on knotted net

Square made up of four small squares in rosette with surrounding border in geometric design.
Vision of the Cross
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1860–85
Brush and oil paint on off-white paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing an imagined scene of a metaphorical landscape. Divided between a barren and a mountainous landscape, this work may be a continuation of Thomas Cole's unfinished "The Cross and the World" series, which symbolically represents the spiritual and earthly paths through life. Here, two figures walk beside each other in the foreground at lower right. Beyond them, an immense, craggy, and dark mountain range in the middle distance divides the composition between an empty and featureless landscape at left and a glowing, mountainous landscape at right. Loosely rendered, the foreground appears to be covered in snow with a group of animals or perhaps bushes at lower left. This flat terrain gives way to an expansive, dark valley at left, above which a luminous Christian cross floats. Its blue glow illuminates the hazy, cloudy atmosphere around it. At right, warm, brown clouds hang above a golden glowing opening in what appears to be a dark, rugged mountain range. Natural features at right are broadly articulated.
Men and Women Unloading a Fishing Dory, Cullercoats, England
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1881–82
Graphite on gray paper
Drawing

Horizontal view of one portion of a fisherman's dory drawn up on to a beach.
Stage Design, View of Town from Palace
Antonio Sarti, Italian, 1797 - 1880, early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Across broad stairs, view passes under high arched portico toward group of buildings. Verso: perspective drawing.
Palm Trees, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1865
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Botanical sketch of two short palm trees in Jamaica. A rock is visible in the foreground at left. Surrounding scenery loosely rendered in hues of green and brown.
Sketches of a Villa and Tree
, 1650–1700
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

At top, the stump of a tree. Below, a house with a smoking chimney surrounded by cypresses.
Mountains near Guanujo and Guaranda, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 10, 1857
Graphite, brush and white gouache on tan paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the mountainous landscape near the towns of Guanujo and Guaranda in Ecuador. Rolling and heavily wooded terrain stretches across the foreground, with a reflective pond at lower right. A house and some miniscule cattle are visible upon a grassy rise in the middle distance at center. In the background, rugged foothills rise to a lofty, bulging mountain range with sharp peaks at center and right. In the extreme distance at far left, the snow-capped summit of an immense mountain peeks over the horizon.
DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D’APRÉS LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR GILLOT
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722, 1731–35
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for the painted decoration for the top panel of a harpsichord depicting women and monkeys playing instruments with foliage, butterflies, and birds in the background surrounded by rococo ornament featuring fleurons, rinceaux, and rosettes. The plate is signed, titled, and numbered.
Frame Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Four frame designs. The frame at upper left is ornamented with scrolls, garlands, and a pinecone finial. The frame at upper right is shell-shaped at top with scrolls, and is ornamented with a garland of flowers and a bead course in the form of an oval. The frame at lower left is in the form of an oval, and framed by garlands of flowers and ribbons. The frame at lower right, with an oval medallion made of bead course in the center, has a cartouche at top and draped garlands. The plate is signed and numbered.
A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning Minerva; two roundels
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, ca. 1805
Pen and black ink, graphite on paper
Drawing

Top: a victory riding toward left. A rostral column is shown in the background. Bottom: a flying female genius crowning Athena seated in her study. Captions: fame della guerre; Felsina. Felsina is a word symbolizing Bologna, in Etruscan.
Sight
, 1750–75
Etching, ink on paper
Print

A woman, seated at a table, looks at her reflection in a mirror held by a man. Behind the table a girl, standing, looks through a telescope. Trees in background. A narrow border of shell and rocaille motifs.
Design for a Plaster Ceiling with Bay
James Wyatt, British, 1746 - 1813, 1746–1813
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on heavy wove paper
Drawing

Vertical format design for a plaster ceiling with bay, scale in black ink at the bottom, ruled border line in black ink on three sides. Inscription at lower right.
Border
, ca. 1830
Block-printed

Alternating simple and compound acanthus leaves, gray and white on gray field.
Design for a Vase
, 1800–1830
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Elevation of a footed vase with cover. Two bands of gadrooning at bottom. Waisted center with cartouche enclosing two figures. Tablet across lid, beneath a finial.
Title page for a Series of Hunting Scenes [above]; Unexperienced Hunter attacked by Snakes [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, 1599 or before
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper
Drawing

Recto, above: Design for a title page with a colonnade. A tablet surrounded by scrollwork appears within the central arch. Animals such as a stag and possibly a lynx appear at left. Hunters on horseback appear at right. 
Recto, below: A man clings to a rope, as two of his companions hoist him out of a pit filled with snakes. One snake is entwined about his body. Verso: Blank.