biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Textile
, 19th century
cotton Technique: Printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave

Scenic pattern in red - piece A from the left third and piece B from the right third. The pattern arranged in two alternating repeating bands divided by swags and floral garlands. The scenic bands depict dancing in the center areas with spectators in theatre boxes at left and right of fabric completed when fabric lengths places side by side.
Textile
, 18th–early 19th century
silk, Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocaded)

Woven silk textile fragment showing repeating pattern of deer sitting under a flowering tree with a bird and butterfly. Brown ground with discontinuous supplementary weft floats in orange, green and white.
Etagere
, 18th century
wood

Hanging etagere, Louis XV, painted and decorated with de'coupage; three open shelves above pair of cupboard doors.
Female Head
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, 1806
Line engraving in brown ink on brown paper
Print

A young woman, with her hair coiled in braids looks down slightly toward the left.
Vase Design
Charles Dupuis, French, active 1760 – 1791, ca. 1763
Etching on paper
Print

Design for a vase decorated with festoons of leaves, eagles, and a band of fluting. The plate is numbered.
Oblong with dancing children; an oblong panel with an escutcheon
, 1600–1625
Charcoal, pen, ink, brush, grey watercolor, paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. A horizontal oblong with three dancing children. At right is one blowing into a trumpet. Below is a scrollwork frame of a [?] ovoid. On top is a helmet, whose mantling ends with ribbons and tassels. Two framing lines. Verso: Most of the right half is executed; the left one roughly outlined. Five persons, possibly all women, sit at a table in the open country. One of them raises a glass. At right is a tree, a house in the background.
Chatelaine
, ca. 1890
Silver

Chatelaine of three parts hinged together; pierced silver in design of foliated scrolls, masque, cherubs and birds. Five short chains are attached.
Portrait of Louis XIV, King of France
Robert Nanteuil, French, 1623 – 1678, 1662
Engraving on paper
Print

In an oval enframement is a bust length portrait of Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715). The sitter faces hald right and wears an ermine cape and order of the Saint-Esprit.
Fragment
, 16th–17th century
linen Technique: needle lace

Fragment of a tiny flower with five petals and stem.
April, from series of "Social Customs..."
Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1724 – 1770, ca. 1770
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

Two young girls are seen underneath a blooming cherry blossom tree. One girl's head is raised to the sky, her eyes closed but embracing the sun's warmth. The other girl is diligently sweeping up the fallen petals. There is a poem written in hiragana on top of the print.
Design for a Bracelet
Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century, 1875–1900
Graphite Support: off-white wove paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. In classic style.
Design for the letter B of a pictorial alphabet: Bienfaisance (Charity)
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866, ca. 1830
Graphite, pen and bistre ink, brush and ink wash, with white heightening on cream paper.
Drawing

Letter above, flanked by intertwining rinceau.
Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1800-1820
Pen and ink on paper.

Horizontal rectangle. Venus is shown seated upon a bench near an altar. She holds an arrow in her raised right hand, which cupid tries to get.
Charity
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550, ca. 1535
Engraving on laid paper
print

Vertical rectangle. Charity is represented by a woman with wings, seated at left, and accompanied by two children; one standing, beside her; the other kneels before her, holding a stick in his left hand.
Kimono fragment
, late 18th century
hemp or ramie Technique: resist dyed, and free brush coloring (yuzenzome)

Delicate repeats widely spaced vertically of wisteria branch and some kind of kite or toy. In natural and soft shades of red, gold, and green on dark blue ground. Breadth with plain selvedges continuous with ground.
Band fragment
, 10th–12th century
linen, silk Technique: slit tapestry

Fragment showing interlacing bands in yellow and red.
Studies of Two Greyhounds
Henry Bernard Chalon, English, 1770 - 1849, 1820–1849
Black crayon on paper
Drawing

Shown at the obverse and reverse, in profile, turned toward left, with the lowered head turned toward the spectator.
Dunstanburgh Castle, from "Liber Studiorum," part III
James Mallord William Turner, British, 1775–1851, 1808
etching, aquatint and mezzotint, printed in brown ink
Print

First of three states.
Founders of the Olivetan Order Receiving the Habit, design for a painting in the left transept of the Church at the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Siena
Francesco Vanni, Italian, 1563 – 1610, 1589
Graphite on paper, squared in red chalk
Drawing

Olivetan monks, kneeling in a Church, receiving blessings and the habit from a bishop and church elders.
Fragment
, 19th century
silk, metallic, cotton Technique: woven

Striped fabric with small designs in multicolor.
Hercules Fighting against the Trojans
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550, 1542–48
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Horizontal rectangle. At right, Hercules on horseback, wearing helmet, battles another horseman. A horse rears in the background. A fallen horse and warrior, below.
Fringe
, 16th century
silk Technique: soumak weave

Yellow fringe with a soumak heading, picots and skirt threads.
Edge
, 18th century
linen Technique: needle lace with ground of loop and twist with twist return

Alencon style lace with simple floral sprays. Widest portions of the border have foliage sprays in reversed position.
Design for a Dining Table of Mahogany and Inlay
A.N. Davenport Co., 1900–05
Pen and black ink on thin, cream paper
Drawing

Round molded table top raised on faceted column-like support sitting on conforming base rounded at bottom with four splayed legs on casters (3 shown).
Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l’orfeverie
Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century, late 17th–early 18th century
Album

Album with six plates depicting ornament designs for Goldsmith's engravings for the use on boxes, bowls, teapots, cups, saucers, porringers, and sugar and oil containers. The designs are identified with lettered inscriptions and the plates are numbered.
Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809, 1769–75
Album

Album of headpieces from an edition of Les Saisons, Poëme by Charles-François Saint-Lambert representing the four seasons. Each headpiece features roundels or medallions, zodiac signs, and attributes related to each season. The plates are titled and signed. Quarter green leather binding with marbled papers and marbled endleaves. 'Choffard' lettered in gold on spine.
Button
, mid-19th century
Brass, pewter

On card J
LIVRE de NOUVEAUX TROPHEZ Inventez Par J. Dumont Le Romain Peintre Ordinaire du Roi et Gravés par J.F. Blondel
Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781, 1729–61
Album

An album of hanging ornamental trophy designs featuring military and religious objects. Each plate, with two designs side by side. The plates are numbered and signed.
No. 168
Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917, 1871
Mouth-blown crystal, facet-cut and polished
White wine glass

Mouth-blown crystal, partly facet-cut and polished, with a dainty floral engraved border
Dish
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, ca. 1810
hard paste porcelain, gold
dish

1926-22-506-e: White, with stylized palmettes in gilt. A) circula...
Ice Cream Spoon
, late 19th century
gold plated, silver
spoon

Oval bowl, intergral with handle. Acanthus leaves in Fleur-de-lis shape at neck. Reeded border stemming at neck, continuing along along edge of handle. Midway down stem, another acanthus leaf fleur-de-lis spanning central reserve. Handle flaring and terminating in teardrop-shape terminal with monogram gothic 'B' in central reserve and acanthus leaf fleur-de lis capping the terminal edge. Reverse side decorated with acanthus leaf fleur-de-lis on base of bowl, midway down stem, and capping terminal.
Title Page (recto)
Marie F. Lattré, French, active eighteenth century, 1751
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

On the recto, title page with elaborate border decoration, including a vignette of Helios or Apollo driving his chariot with the sun behind him, and a scene of a large ship set within a cartouche at the bottom. The plate is signed with the name of the calligrapher. On the verso, a description of the allegorical frontispiece (1921-6-207-23).
Lit à 4 colonnes surmonte d’un baldaquin a 3 dossiers vu de face
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on blue laid paper
Print

Design for a four-poster canopy (baldachin) bed (front view) with the four posts bending inwards to support a smaller crown above. The crown is topped with feather finials, and scrolling acanthus leaf ornament, with swags of hanging textiles and bed curtains tied to the posts. The bed with equal sized head, foot and sideboard is carved with a leaf finial and scrolling acanthus leaf motifs. The bed linen is floral, with hanging swags of textiles and tassels on a striped background along the skirt. A scale below. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Rock formation
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of rocks.
Ionian Sea near Corfu, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1869
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of clouds over the Ionian Sea near Corfu, Greece. Water extends from foreground to the horizon, where several clouds are visible--notably a puffy bank at left. Above, hazy and billowing clouds alike inhabit an otherwise open sky. 

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of coastal mountains in Greece, seen from the sea. Water extends from foreground to the background, where it meets the shore. Above, rugged, rolling mountain ridges loom over the sea and stretch across the composition. Multiple sharp peaks are visible. Above, thin, wispy clouds float in the sky.
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, Separate Arm and Drapery Studies
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1880
Graphite, white chalk on buff wove paper
Drawing

Standing female figure turned to left, gaze directed to right. Studies of left and right hands with drapery, either side.
Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol, Writing-Master (The "Large Coppenol")
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669, ca. 1658
Etching and drypoint on Gampi [Japanese] paper
Print

Three-quarter length figure of a seated man, turned towards the right.  He holds a sheet of paper in his hands and a quill pen in his right hand.
Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Graphite, impressed lines on paper
Drawing

Above, an angel, kneeling with his right knee upon clouds, points at something with his right hand, his arm crossing his breast and holding in his lowered left hand the Crown of Thorns. Below, at left, an angel with the scourges, carrying them like walking sticks in either hand; on his back the wash basin. At right stands a similar one with the column of the flagellation. Framing line.
The Collecting of Bitumen [above]; Catching Night Moths [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, 1596 or before
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk on laid paper
Drawing

Recto, above: Seascape with two small open boats in the foreground and a large ship farther out to sea. The scene is set in Sicily, and mountains line the shore at right and in the background. The small boats are filled with men, some of whom reach down to use sponges to collect bitumen from the surface of the waves. 
Recto, below: Nighttime scene set in an outdoor area near farm buildings. At the center, an oven or open furnace appears, with steam rising from a funnel above. Figures in the foreground use sticks to beat surrounding shrubbery. 
Verso, above: Landscape with men on horseback using spears to hunt buffalo. Dogs run among the large animals, biting at their legs.  
Verso, below: Men in small boats approaching a rocky shore, meant to depict the coast of Sicily. Some men dive to collect coral, others rise to the surface wearing goggles.
Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801, 1764
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a vase decorated with two lions' heads, feet, and acanthus leaf fronds. The foot of the vase is formed of two female nudes, kneeling, reaching up and holding onto the lions' heads above them. The plate is signed and numbered.
Trimming
, ca. 1820
silk Technique: woven

Yellow trimming fragment with a design of a vine ornament alternating with a motif of leaves. Border in a lozenge pattern at either edge.
Pastoral Scene, 1st Process
, ca. 1840
Colored aquatint on paper
Print

Fragment of an 1840 "papier peint" or wallpaper.
Design for a Tray with Punch Bowl and Glasses
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822, ca. 1810
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Design for a tray with a punch bowl and glasses. The design corresponds to 1938-88-658 but for the lower bowl, the diameter of which is greater. The masks are of a different design, no railing. Two doves, preparing themselves for drinking, stand on the rim.
Mountain Peaks, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1890–93
Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of sharp mountain peaks in Mexico. At center, a summit with two sharp points has several furrows down its sides and a rugged ridge that leads to the right. In the background, a sharp, triangular mountain is visible at left. In the foreground at center, rocks appear to rest on nearby, flat ground. Above, clouds are loosely and indistinctly rendered.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a church nestled in a group of mountains in Mexico. The church is situated in the middle distance at center while steep mountainsides rise beside it at left and right. In the background, a dark, rounded peak is shown at center, while towering, rounded peaks backdrop the scene. Hazy clouds visible in the background.
Fragment
, mid-19th century
cotton Technique: printed on plain weave; purple

Fragment made of two pieces shows a group of soldiers and civilians in a city street bearing muskets with bayonets. A woman tends to an injured man seated in the lower right. In purple on white.
Ceiling Design
Carlo Maria Pozzi, 1708
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Design for a ceiling with stucco scroll molding. Along the edge are putti, vases, shells, garlands, and allegorical female figures. The plate is signed and numbered.
Letter to Dr. Dudley Tenney
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, ca. 1895
Pen and brown ink on paper
Ephemera

Above, letter to Dr. Dudley Tenney; below, profile of hippopotamus ridding bike from right to left, crying.
Temperance
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1816
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Elephant drinks from bowl which putto holds for him.  In front, woman sits with palm leaf and bridle on stool. Beside her kneels putto.
The Artist's Wife Sophie
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1853
Black and white crayon on grey-violet wove paper
Drawing

Portrait of the artist's wife, Sophie Huntington, with her lowered head facing towards the left, obliquely.
Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647, 1647
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a Baroque chimneypiece with Classical motifs. The mantle is framed by a molding of laurel leaves and ribbon, topped with an acanthus leaf and gadrooning running patterns. An overmantel featuring a large roundel of a woman riding a centaur (half man half horse), framed by shell motifs and leaves. Two large standing sculptures of woman on plinths on either side, draped in a festoon of leaves, hanging from the center of the tympanum above. The tympanum is decorated with an oval cartouche and framed by molded running patterns. The plate is numbered.
Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1870–80
Brush and oil on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Hudson River Valley and Catskill Escarpment during a winter sunset. Beige ground visible along lower margin. Foreground rendered in deep brownish-purple. Catskill Escarpment visible in distance--Overlook Mountain visible center, Kaaterskill High Peak visible at right. Above, varied twilight sky is dually rendered in orange and green at different points. Above, tumultuous clouds are touched by the red light of the setting sun.
Design for a Book Cover
Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961, ca. 1887–1903
Brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

On green ground, three bamboo plants with thorns in white; bordered with dotted white frame.
Illustration for Hamlet: The Death of Polonius (III,4)
Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798 - 1863, 1835
Lithograph on paper
Print

The Death of Polonius (III,4)
Designs for Friezes
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820, 1777-1778
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Four designs for friezes decorated with ornament motifs including scrolling acanthus leaves, putti gazing in a mirror, putti fighting, and infant Bacchus and satyrs holding thyrses, and an oval with an image of a winged cupid. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for a surtout de table (Centerpiece)
, 1775–1800
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

A fountain ensemble, with a statue of female goddess at the center, surrounded by a circle of six dancing nymphs connected with flowering garlands, flanked by two domed, eight-columned superstructures around statues of goddesses. People are shown relaxing on the steps the fountain group.
The Country Woman and the Sumpter Crossing a Brook
Karel du Jardin, Dutch, 1626 - 1678, ca. 1657
Etching on paper
Print

A landscape with a brook in foreground, trees in background. At right, a sumpter drinks from the brook; at left, a woman with her head turned to right stands nearby. A dog jumps in front of her. Inscribed, upper left corner: "K. du Jardin fecit"; lower right: "27."
Design for the decoration of a panel
, 1760–1780
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Apparently unfinished. Something more than the left half is shown. Below is a winged, female half-figure, raising her hands with a bunch of grapes and a bowl, respectively. Beside her stands a child with a tyranus and grapes. An oblong tablet stands upon the wings of the half-figure. It is decorated with putti. Above it rises a plant candelabrum having a circular medallion with Venus and Cupid in the center.
Title Page and Arabesque Panel Design
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825, 1782
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Title page and an allegorical arabesque panel design representing ‘air', featuring four putti, an eagle, birds, owls, horns, butterflies, ribbons, foliate branches with the title lettered in heart shaped cartouche in the center. The plate is titled, numbered, and dated.
Study for Portrait of James Prendergast
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1881
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Man standing, with his left hand resting on a table and holding papers in his right hand. He faces frontally, looking toward the left.
Button
, 1830–48
Brass, pewter

Four buttons for special troop, guard of paris, 16 July 1830-1848. A, B) brass button ornamented with ship surrounded by the words "Garde Municipale de Paris 29 Jet 1830". C, D) Pewter buttons with ship similar to that on A and B but without legend.

Component -b is on Cooper Union Exhibition card 5
Components -a,-c are on card J
Church in Barranquilla, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 2, 1853
Oil and graphite on brown paperboard
Drawing

Architecture sketch of a two story church in Barranquilla, Colombia. A figure rides on a donkey at lower right while the remainder of the space is grassy and rocky terrain. Dominating the composition at center, the Church is viewed obliquely from the rear and is made up of white stucco walls and red terra-cotta roof tiles. Two second story balconies are visible at its rear, while two square bell towers are shown flanking its facade--the top of the furthest tower peeks just above the church's roof at center. Other buildings are visible in the background at left and right. Above, light and puffy clouds hang in an otherwise clear and blue sky.
Boy
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a young male figure wearing a hat.
Mounted Cavalryman
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1862
Graphite, brush and gray wash on off-white paper
Drawing

Vertical view of the side of a lancer on horseback.
Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament
François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660, 1657
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Designs for gun parts (flintlock and ornament) decorated with grotesque ornament, flowers, terminal figure putto wearing armor and wings, birds, an insect, head of a man in a helmet, scrolling foliate, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), and fleurons. The plate is signed and numbered.
Stage Design, Oriental Court
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872, early 19th century
Pen and sepia ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. View through tiled arch on court of Islamic building with decorated fountain in bright colors at center. Tower at right.
Studies of a Head
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796, 1773
Crayon-manner with red ink on laid paper
Print

Study of a head and its proportions from the front and profile, with accompanying explanatory text, from a series of figure studies for the education of artists and amateurs, printed in red ink in the crayon manner. The plate is numbered and signed.
Design for an Altar Lamp
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, 1750–1805
Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Study of chandelier.
Sketchbook: Folio 73; Six Paintings of Bolognese School; Verso: Anatomical Drawings
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1811–14
Pen and brown ink, brush and sepia wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

At top, Hercules; inscribed: Francia Bologna. Right between ship and horsemen, inscribed: Tibaldi Bologna. Center: Hercules and Omphale. Omphale teaches Hercules to play flute. Inscribed: Francia Bologna. Bottom row: Virgin holding Child in her lap.  Virgin suckling Child. Inscribed: Ludovico Caracci Bologna. Top left: 136; left top corner: 73.  Verso: left arm lowered, right hand raised.  Muscles marked by figures 1-26; "20" used twice.  Their explanations given at left: "1 frontale", ending "27 zigonactico."
Madonna and Angel
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820-1850
Pin and ink, brush and light brown watercolor on paper
Drawing

The standing Virgin holds the Child on her left arm. Beside her stands a girl with a sun between the breasts; she lifts a wreath from he rhead. A palette, a bowl, and other indistrinct objects are on the floor. An enormous halo forms the background of the group. Framing lines.