biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Figures
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1881
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Partial sketch of two figures.
Mount Washington with Snow
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, October 5, 1854
Graphite and black crayon on cream wove paper
Drawing

Pasture and clothesline, fence and trees in foreground with a house just over a rise. Beyond, Mount Washington with snow, center, and Carter Notch, at right.
Elevation and Plan of a Table
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1787-1796
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevation and plan of a design for a table, topped with a trophy with military attributes and with legs wrapped in laureal branches and topped with plumed helmets. The plate is signed and numbered.
Sailboat, House, and Plant
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1844 and August 1845
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Mixed sketches showing views of a schooner, or two-masted sailboat, viewed in right profile at left, a house viewed from the side at upper center, and a plant and its leaves at center.

Verso: Landscape sketch near Madison, Connecticut, showing a view of sunlight breaking through puffy clouds and streaking down in beams over a wooded mountain ridge. The portion of the mountainside at center is rendered in detail, while the rest is outlined.
Four tables
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Left side. Above at left, the frame has below the shape of a fluted bowl; above are cornices. The leg is a winged chimera; her mouth supports a festoon, hanging toward the center below. Center at right: the leg is a post with an oval medallion above. Around it are wound the bodies of two snakes with heads turned outside, supporting festoons. Frame and top form cornices of an entablature. Below at left: an entablature is supported by winged chimerae supporting festoons with wings and neck. Below at right: the leg is a gaine with a head above. Between the legs is a bowl supported by the wings and head of birds, sitting, turned toward the center and having a shaft consisting of a star upon a pedestal, above a round foot. Usual background.
Portrait of Olivier de Clisson (1336-1407)
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713, 1710–15
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

Bust-length portrait in three-quarter view to the right.  The duke wears a beret and a coat with a fur collar. Portrait in oval frame standing on a pedestal, in front of which are a lion and a panther fighting.  Inscribed on the frame: "Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. le Comte de Rieux."
Designs for the Letters S, T, U, V
Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s, 1767
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A plate of six designs for the letters ‘S', ‘T' and ‘U', from a series of decorative letters, published in Pouget's ‘Dictionnaire des chifres […]'. The plate features six ornamental inhabited letter designs, two per row, featuring putti, mythological characters and creatures, a shepherdess, a vase and a pyramid, clouds, water, and pastoral landscapes, with rococo ornament, acanthus leaves, scrolling foliate, beads, garlands of flowers, and friezes. The plate is numbered.
Etuis Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798, 1771
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Two designs for etuis, side-by-side, with plan views below each showing the shape of the etuis from above. The etuis are decorated with rococo motifs including cartouches with trophies of instruments, arms and armor, flowers, a head with sunrays, c-scrolls, rinceaux, shells, s-scrolls, fleurons, rosettes, palm eaves, ribbons, acanthus leaves, and scale patterns. There is an unnumbered scale below. The plate is numbered and signed.