biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for Doors
Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716, 1686–1716
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Second plate from a series of designs of portes-cochères (doors), newly made for various French royal houses. Highly ornamented double doors with carved panels featuring rosettes, lamb's tongue and leaf repeat patterns, winged putti masks, drapery, festoons of flowers, trophies with garlands of flowers and palm leaves, s-scrolls, and acanthus leaf motifs, and two central roundels with a man and a woman seated within landscapes. The arched lunette or tympanum features a cartouche with a cypher supported by two winged putti and decorated with festoons and a crown of flowers. Below the lintel, is ornamented with fluting and a rosette frieze with a central corbel decorated with acanthus leaf motifs. Each door features five carved and decorated panels. A scale below the design. The plate is signed and numbered.
Sidewall
, ca. 1725
Leather, silvered, stamped, painted

Stamped field of varnished silver. Decoration of large-scale all-over pattern of flowers and foliage in blue, red, green and white.
Two Medallion or Frame Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Designs for two medallions or frames, oval and round, decorated with moldings and topped with scientific trophies. The ornament and motifs include measuring devices, rulers, telescope, globe, book, distilling apparatus, palm tree, foliate branches, flowers, scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux), and a ribbon and rosette pattern molding. The plate is numbered and signed.
Interior of the Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 1868
Brush and oil, graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Architecture sketch showing ancient Roman ruins inside the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon. At center, broken portions of an entablature and a Corinthian column lie on the grassy terrain. Behind them, the lower parts of two bays and three fluted, separated columns backdrop the scene.
Design for a Sedan Chair
, ca. 1775
Pen and black ink; brush and gray wash, red, green and blue watercolor over graphite on tan paper
Drawing

Shown from the rear right corner with two bars. On top of the roof is a ducal crown. At the corners stand crowns and hang tassels. Fringes and ropes with tassels and framing festoons hang from the upper rim. The panel beside the window is divided into two parts by a scroll rising from the lower right corner and extending to the upper left corner. In the right part is an escutcheon with two swearing hands (?) and a swag crossed with a palm branch. In the left parts ornamentation with lozenges hanging blossoms at the angles. In the upper panel at the back are, above, a trophy of objects referring to the hung, below, a monogram MP. The bottom panels are decorated with, respectively, a hanging basket below the subdivided panel, a plant palmette at the back. The bars are decorated in the width of the chair. The metal mountings are shown.
Livery trimming
, mid-19th century
silk Technique: voided velvet

Design of the arms Mexico alternating with French imperial crown set between borders with diamond-shaped ornaments. In brown on a white ground. Probably made for Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
Sepulchral Monument for Nicola Spedalieri
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, after 1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, on blued-white paper
Drawing

In a woodland clearing just outside a city, a pedestal stands. A female genius holding a giant tiara and blowing a trumpet is seated atop it. At the bottom of the pedestal sit two more women: one, at left, holds a sheet of music; the other, at right, holds a compass, palette, and brushes.  The pedestal in inscribed with: "QUI.GIACE.SPEDALIERI.CHE/ SCRISSE.QUID.EST.PAPA.CHE/ BENE.LE.ARTI.ET.LA.MUSICA/ E.BENE.LA.CRUDA.MORTE/ LO.RAPI.TUTTO.IN.VN.COLP(o)".
The Butterfly
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1872
Brush and oil paint on canvas
Painting

Horizontal view of woman in profile, holding  a fan in her right hand and sitting in a folding chair on a shaded spot of lawn;  tree foliage in background.  She gazes down on a butterfly resting  on the back of her left hand; another butterfly flits above the lawn  near the left edge of picture.
Study of Peter Cooper's Feet for "The Atlantic Cable Projectors"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1894
Graphite, white chalk on grey wove paper
Drawing

Study of lower left leg and foot, and right foot, in boots. Verso: Torso of man seated in chair facing slightly left. Sketch of a portrait.
Design for a Main Altar
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746-1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

The plan of the retable is like the half of an octagon. At the front is a representation of the ascension of the Virgin, in presence of the Apostles. On top are two angels. In front of the oblique sides is a statue of a saint. Projecting columns frame the sides. The front has a triangular pediment upon the sides of which angels sit. Above them is a circle with the Dove of the Holy Spirit. The upper part forming a circular pediment with garlands and two angels above. Angels sit upon the lower ends of the supports near the wall. The mensa stands at the front, with the tabernacle in front of the central panel of the zone with the pedestals. In the oblique ones are escutcheons. Laterally are round pedestals, disposed similarly to -1369, either of them with a group consisting of a standing female figure and two sitting angels. Usual background.
Title Page
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811, 1776–89
Crayon manner etching on paper
Print

Title page and arabesque ornament design featuring a roundel cartouche with a winged women writing and a putto, surrounded by winged putti, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate branches, foliate scrolls, fleurons, mask (mascaron), and flaming torches. The plate is titled and numbered.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: cut supplementary warp pile in a satin foundation (velvet)

Yellow trimming fragment in a design of a scrolling stem with conventionalized leaves.
From under Nose of Mt. Mansfield
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, September 7, 1864
Graphite on grey paper
Drawing

High rock cliff falling from left. Trees and boulders below.
Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Design for a tomb with a scene of the descent of Christ from the cross, framed by candelabra and carved scrolling acanthus leaves and kneeling angels. To the right of the tomb is a panel with carved trophies. This plate is the title page of the series, and the text is printed on the upper right. The plate is numbered but not signed.
Woodland Scene with Animals Drinking
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877, 1793–1877
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Woodland scene with animals drinking from a pond.
Ornament Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731, 1716-19
Etching on laid paper
Print

Ornament design with a central vase on a plinth and a base with putti/fauns playing flutes framed by canopies on either side. The ornament features grotesque motifs, mascarons (masks), cartouches, griffins, profile portrait, figures, draped, hanging textiles, tassels, vases of flowers, palm leaves, wings, shells, festoons of leaves, fleurons, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, fluting, rosettes, and ram heads. The plate is signed.
Autumn Mountains, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1865–74
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing view in Vermont of a mountain in fall colors with a field or other green expanse before it. Gray-green ground visible along lower margin. Foreground comprised of green with numerous pinkish-cream sheaves of wheat in orderly rows. Beyond, triangular mountain articulated in tones of red, gray, and brown. Gray-blue sky above.
Title Page
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731, early 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page with the title lettered in a cartouche on the front of a pedestal supporting a vase, with a draped textile hanging with a mascaron (mask) above and putti holding the French Royal coat of arms with dragons on either side. The ornament features putti, flaming torches, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, c-scrolls, gadrooning, fluting, oval profile portrait, diaper and rosette pattern, and banners, spears with flags, shields, helmet, quiver of arrows. The plate is signed.
Wine Glass Rinser
Wedgwood, English, established 1759, late 18th century
Glazed earthenware

Circular; two shaped ear handles with relief foliate decoration, and two lips. Brown banding about top and bottom, brown touches on handles, and brown crest composed of bearded man's head with Phyrigian cap, under one lip.
Project for an Altar
, 1700–1750
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and bistre on paper
Drawing

Curved palm boughs in an escutcheon at the front side of the mensa. Obliquely standing embedded columns supported small cornices of a broken pediment. Laterally pilasters and pediments.
Cornstalks
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Three bundles of tied cornstalks in a field. Additional, indistinct bundles in right rear.
Figural Group of Cupids Fishing Representing Water, from a Group Called "The Elements" (One of a Pair)
Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756, ca. 1790–1795
biscuit
figure

Two cherubs under a tree on a mound of rocks with a waterfall and sea life. The seated cherub transfers fish from a small bucket to a net held by the standing figure.
Sidewall
, 1825–30
Block-printed on handmade paper

Vertical stripes of yellow, forming bands, and horizontal blue stripes, both recurring at intervals and enclosing square and rectangular shapes set with foliate forms. Printed in yellow and blues on joined sheets of paper.
Grotesque Design
, early 17th century
Charcoal, pen and bistre, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Grotesque frame with candelabrum composed of bucranium, dolphins, military trophies, birds and monkeys.
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 child's head 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.
Study of an Arm for "Christiana and Her Family Passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1850
Graphite and white chalk on grey wove paper
Drawing

Woman's right arm extending down from the shoulder. Part of chest shown.
Elévation et Profil d'un Fauteuil quarré orné de Sculpture et garni à l'Angloise
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevation and profile of a design for an armchair decorated with a striped textile and carved with ornament motifs including wave pattern, rosette, scrolls, and fluting. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for Ceiling Decoration
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, red ink on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Design for Ceiling Decoration.
Developpement de divers Balcons en saillie soutenue par des Consoles à l'usage des façades de Bâtiment
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Designs for three balconies with brackets decorated with putti, bucranium, lion heads, and helmets. From top to bottom, they represent designs in the Corinthian, Ionic, and Doric order. The plate is signed and numbered.
Memorial Structure
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1792-1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, gray ink on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Curved colonnades flank a tower which rises in three sections. Ramps lead to its doorway. Side wings. Lines possibly belonging to another drawing at left bottom edge.
Design for a Book Cover
Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961, ca. 1896–1903
Brush and gouache, gold paint on paper
Drawing

On tan ground, vertical green rinceaux with S-curves below and empty gold area upper right.
Hercules and Atlas
Claude Mellan, French, 1598 - 1688, ca. 1630
Engraving on white mulberry paper
Print

Kneeling Atlas at left, Hercules at right. Inscribed, center, lower margin: "C. Mellan G. in. et s."
Boat
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1881
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Partial sketch of a boat with a seated figure on board.
Two Fountain Designs
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 1769
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Two plates printed side-by-side on a single sheet depicting designs for fountains featuring sculpted figures, putti, dolphins, vases, festoons of leaves, mascarons (masks), shells, and rockwork. The plates are titled, numbered, signed, and dated.
Tablecloth
, 19th century
linen, cotton Technique: damask

Design of six large medallions containing a scene from Lohengrin. Border around the cloth has interlacing bands forming circles and a lyre between confronted swans. Large monogram: E.S.H.
The Beehive and Sand Beach from Great Head, Mt. Desert, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1850
Oil and graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the Beehive, Sand Beach, and the Lynam farmhouse from the western cliffs of Great Head in Mount Desert Island, Maine.The lower portion of the composition is completed only in graphite, revealing the brick-colored ground. Nearby rock and cliffsides are rendered in graphite at lower right. In the middle distance at center, Sand Beach is visible beneath the steep and round mountain known as the Beehive, mostly in shadow at left. The clearing in the valley in the middle distance at center is the Lynam farm and house, where period artists including Cole and Gifford rested and ate while visiting Mount Desert Island. In the background at center, another mountain-possibly Champlain Mountain-bounds the valley at left. A blue, open sky reigns above.

Verso: Incomplete figure sketch of a figure's knee-length overcoat, viewed from the side.
Medallion Portrait of Mauro Tesi, Surrounded by Architectural Ornaments, Frontispiece to the "Raccolta Di Disegni Originali Di Mauro Tesi..."
Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, Italian, 1739 - 1821, 1787
Etching with aquatint, printed in brown ink on white laid paper
Print

Medallion portrait of the architect Mauro Tesi (based on a drawing credited to Gaetano Gandolfi, now in Venice), surrounded by architectural ornament, including sphinxes and putti.
Design for a Woven Fabric
, 1825–1850
Brush and white, beige, yellow, and red gouache on oily tracing paper
Drawing

Boughs with leaves, seeds, and many clavicles alternate with stems with seeds and a big fantastical blossom, form a vertically undulated row which alternates with another composed of alternating fantastical plants and boughs with leaves and a pineapple.
Ornamenti di fregi e fogliami
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664, ca. 1648
Etching on paper
Print

Plate 1
Demie Baignoire[s]
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Designs for two half bathtubs, each with high chair backs that have striped fabric. The chair construction is carved with bound reeds, acanthus leaves, garlands, scrolls, and fluting. The plate is signed.
Decoration of a frieze
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Decoration of a frieze.
Earthenware Jar
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a round jar with handle. Decorative panel of birds around base. A label with number "18" is depicted on the jar.
Study for "Communion of the Sick"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1844–45
Graphite, white chalk on off-white wove paper
Drawing

Study of a left hand and sleeve, and a right sleeve. Left hand shown at upper right, with palm downward and fingers spread. Right arm shown at lower left, bending toward the right.
The elevation of a door in Rococo style
Domenico Torti, Italian, 1830 - 1890, ca. 1875
Graphite, brush and watercolor on white wove paper
Drawing

The door shows four vertically and two horizontally oblong panels with painted landscapes.  The top part of the doorframe is decorated with garlands dragging from a rocaille motif.
Perfume Burner Designs
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840, 1787–95
Etching on laid paper
Print

A vertical plate with designs for four perfume burners on stands, a shallow vase perfume burner, and a large candlestand in the center featuring Neoclassical and Empire style motifs - palmettes, scrolling acanthus leaves and foliage, putti, rams' heads, sphynx, fleurons, rosettes, gadrooning, festoons of flowers and leaves, a vase, and winged figure. The plate is signed and numbered.
Playing card
, ca. 1855
Red and black ink, paper

Card numbered at top: O 2 T; below central image: 2
Hilltop at Sunset, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1865
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing mountainous topography beneath a vibrant and varied twilight sky in Jamaica. Sun illuminates the hazy atmosphere in vivid hues of pink and orange. A gray, low-elevation cloud obscures the direct light of the sun. Below, the illuminated haze renders one hillside a hue of rich purple at right.
Wallpaper Design
, 1830–50
Brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite on white paper
Drawing

A dado is shown at the bottom, an entablature on top. The panel shows on top a rinceau. It is checkered. For the squares are suggested alternative decorations: obliquely dispersed straw-plotting, at left: a seemingly woven lozenge, at right. Alternative suggestions were also made for the floral decorations of the vertical and horizontal bands framing the squares. Rosettes are in the squares at the crossings of the bands.
Shoe
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Three sketches of a lady's shoe.
Supply List, Lake Millinocket, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September - October 1878
Graphite on white wove paper
Drawing

List of supplies for Church's trip to Lake Millinocket, Maine, in the fall of 1878.
LA MENAGERIE DE VERSAILLES
Gabriel Perelle, French, 1604–1677, 1663–1703
Etching on laid paper
Print

Plan view (from above) of the Versailles Menagerie with its buildings, pavilions, trees, basins, fountains, fields, and animals. An elephant and other animals in the upper left. Half a blank cartouche along the lower left margin. The plate is titled.
The Chimpanzee and the Boa Constrictor
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1878
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Center left, short story from Fables. Bottom, body of large snake, profile of face, facing right, looking upward towards tail. Upper right, tail of snake wrapped around monkey, monkey with tongue out, struggling and waving left arm, screams POLICE
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Panel design of symmetrical grotesque ornamentation featuring strapwork, foliate scrolls, acanthus leaves, vases, female terms, and a center apse under which a draped woman sits, holding a reed in her left hand and a wreath in her right at which a winged putti grabs. The plate is signed and lettered "D."
Le lion s'en allant en Guerre (The Lion going to War)
, 18th century
Engraved and hand-colored paper leaf, turned wood handle
Handscreen

1927-17-5: Handscreen with paper leaf and turned  wood handle...;     T1927-17-5: Handscreen with paper leaf and turned  wood handle...
Sunset over the Catskills, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, November and July 1844
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of clouds at sunset over the Catskill Escarpment, likely seen from the town of Catskill, New York. At center, the twin sawtooth peaks of Kaaterskill High and Roundtop loom over Kaaterskill Clove. Just beside the clove at right, at the base of South Mountain, the relatively miniscule Catskill Mountain House is visible. Variously lit clouds hang in the sky above.

Verso: Botanical sketch of a tall deciduous tree with a split trunk near its base. It grows vertically and has a light canopy of leaves.
Trophy Design
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, 1657–82
Etching on laid paper
Print

Ornamental trophy of arms with a winged putto holding lightning bolts and a horn surrounded by arms (weapons) and armor, shields, banners, spears, armor, helmets, and foliate branches. The plate is numbered, and the publisher's address is lettered below.
Salvator Mundi, with a Globe and a Cross
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, ca. 1760–1770
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

The young man sits at a table, with both hands about a globe surmounted by a cross to his left.
Plan and Elevation for the Major Altar of the Church of Santa Maria di Montesanto in the Piazza del Popolo
Mattia de Rossi, 1637–1695, ca. 1662–1675
Engraving, brush and blue wash on paper
Print

Plan and Elevation for the Major Altar of the Church of Santa Maria di Montesanto in the Piazza del Popolo
Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card
, 17th century
Stencil-colored woodblock print
Playing card

1909-22-1-1/35: Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards50;     1909-22-1-11: Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards.50
Study of Hand for Angel Appearing to St. Peter in "Early Christian Martyrs"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1839–40
Graphite and white chalk on brown wove paper
Drawing

An angel's left forearm and hand are shown horizontally, stretched toward the left.
Spinning wheel
, mid- 18th century
Gilt bronze, wood

Gilt bronze silk winder. Pear-shaped body with symmetrical motif of cocks on scrollwork. Base in the form of a partial fluted column with drapery. Turned wood handle, the bow-ended base inset with a leather panel.
Elévation du Bufet d’Orgues de l’Eglise de St. Severin, achevée en 1755
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790, after 1755
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Elevation of an upper-level organ with doors in an alcove below. The organ is topped with trophy finials of liturgical objects, musical instruments, and putti, decorated with rocaille motifs, cartouches, c-scrolls, acanthus leaves and shells. There is a clock in center below the organ, with doors and panelling in an alcove below, a wrought-iron balustrade above the alcove. The plate is signed and has a scale below.
Design for Oblong Plaster Ceiling for the First Hall, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England
Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806, 1786–90
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal format design for an oblong plaster ceiling. Outside, a vaulted strip. A moulded frame surrounds two lateral vertical rectangles and a central horizontal one. Ovoids with blossoms are in the center of the first ones in that of the central one is framed oblong with an acanthus motif. Below the scale. Elaborate framing near the edges. Something has been erased in the lower right corner.
Hôtel de Sens, Paris
Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876, 1825–1850
Graphite, black crayon on cardboard
Drawing

View of the façade of the structure, which is situated on a square between two streets.
Study for "The Sources of Wealth," Union Trust Company Building, Cleveland, OH
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, 1902
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of a lunette with a seated female figure, attended by a group of figures.