biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Kimono
, 19th century
cotton Technique: resist printed with a stencil on plain weave

All over middle grey tone created by a tiny dot pattern created by a resist supplied through a stencil. Fabric dyed dark blue. A crest appears on each shoulder on the front and center of shoulders at back. Kimono is unlined and the fabric is double faced.
Tape Measure Case
Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919, ca. 1900
silver
case

Cylindrical form, the narrow central band with slot for measuring tape; one circular side with woman holding tambourine within a circular floral border, the other side showing flowers (poppies?) with long, sinuous curling stems radiating out from central knop.
shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha
, 12th century
Brass

Ganesha is seated on closed lotus bud on three-tiered support in front of an arched niche. He carries in his upper right hand a goad or hatchett; in his lower right hand qhich rests on his knee he probably carries a flute; in upper left hand he seems to carry lotus; in lower left, probably his broken tusk. Small figure of rat to left.
Sidewall
, 1880–90
Block-printed and flocked on paper

Wool flock printed to simulate voided satin Genoese velvet in a 17th century design. The drop repeat pattern consists of a symmetrically arranged bouquet of flowers and foliage printed in flock. The outer portions of leaves and flowers are presses to simulate uncut velvet, while the center parts are left in the natural flock to simulate cut velvet. The paper field is embossed in parallel vertical lines and threads woven on surface. Printed in red, green and old gold on ivory and gold paper field.
CHOISI
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, 1686–1694
Etching on laid paper
Print

View of the Chateau of Choisy with the river Seine in the foreground with barges and boats filled with figures/ people. In the background, the garden façade of the chateau with a central basin, fountain, and parterre planting, flanked by trees. Buildings in the background and figures throughout the grounds. The plate is titled with a description.
Vase upon a pedestal, elevation of a mansion
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1800
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

At left: the pedestal is shown from an angle. Above at left is a part of a plan of a house. The sketch of the mansion refers probably to the same as -8088.
Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Close cropped elevation of an apartment interior. At the left is a chimneypiece with a large, over mantle mirror and engaged candelabra; to the right are designs for carved or molded panels, with decorative motifs including strapwork, dragons, scrolls, cartouches, trophies, and mascarons. The plate is signed and numbered.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: woven

Trimming fragment in a design of alternating pink and yellow stripes; one picot edge.
Mount Chocorua from Hill Near Tamworth, Southwest of Lake
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, August 23, 1855
Graphite and black crayon on pale green paper
Drawing

Rocks in pasture in foreground. Stone wall, right center. Mount Chocorua in distance, center.
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686, ca. 1660-70
Engraving on laid paper
Print

An ornament print with a central design for a medallion or the lid of a circular watchcase depicting the New Testament Biblical scene of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, with Mary holding the baby Jesus in the center, to the left, two bearded men in religious dress, one leaning towards Mary. Below two men, one holding a basket. In the background another woman holding a baby. The interior is domed with pilasters, with a hanging thurible or censor and draped textiles, a table, with a candlestick and book. The roundel is flanked by four floral designs, two of which are in glass vases. The plate is numbered and signed.
Two Foliate Frieze Designs
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820, 1777
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two foliate frieze designs featuring scrolling leaves (rinceaux), rosettes, fleurons, vase, snake, trophy of arms and armor (spears, flags, helmets, arrows, shields). The plate is numbered and signed.
Takata Riding Grounds (Takata no baba) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, 1857
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

In 1636 warrior aristocracy would practice their equestrian and archery skills in the north-wet part of Edo. In the middle are two horsemen riding opposite of each other along the riding grounds. The right side shows is a group of men aiming at the white round target. Half of the target is hidden behind the pine tree, which is also cropped.  A couple of arrows that missed the target remain on the ground below.
Peasant's Houses
Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876, ca. 1840
Graphite on paper
Drawing

They are at right, in the middleground, one behind the other. A road leads to them, at left. Framing lines.
Old Man with a Staff
Robert Dighton, British, ca. 1752 - 1814, ca. 1780–1805
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

The man's eyes are raised; he faces slightly left, with the staff grasped in his right hand.
Mountain View from Riobamba, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 13, 1857
Graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a mountain range and clouds from the city of Riobamba, Ecuador. Ridges and ravines of the mountainside are visible at center. Snow-capped mountaintops shown along the ridge. In the background, some clouds float in an otherwise clear sky.
Botanical Sketches along the Río Magdalena, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 1853
Graphite on gray-green laid paper
Drawing

Botanical sketches along the Magdalena River in Colombia, with a crane-like bird at upper right. At upper left, a palm tree erroneously labeled "camaca" is visible. Beside, at right, a hastily rendered scene of hanging foliage beside a river is visible. Below, a small study of a plant bisects the inscribed text.
Porte Cochere avec Entresol, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers
A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768, ca. 1768
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a set of exterior double doors decorated with rococo ornament and motifs. The doors feature central vertical curvilinear panels (boiseries) decorated with molded scrolling leaves (rinceaux), flowers and shell ornament. With lower shell clasps with crowns of leaves.  The lower panels of the doors have circular and star marquetry designs. The arched tympanum above the doors feature a mezzanine level balcony with wrought-iron balustrade in front of glass paneled doors framed by c-scrolls, s-scrolls, scrolling leaves, and festoons of flowers. The lintel is decorated with a reed and ribbon molding and a fluted molding with fleurons ornament. There are scales on either side of the design and a plan view of the doors below. The plate is titled.
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1895–1898
Brown pastel crayon on tracing paper
Drawing

Young male figure standing slightly turned to the right, holding kid with both arms. Shown in full length. Over the boy's left hand hangs the left foreleg of the kid, the right one crossing his forearm.
Sunrise over the Bernese Alps, Switzerland
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1868
Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Landscape study showing a view of the sun cresting the top of a mountain ridge in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. In the middle distance and loosely rendered, a rocky and rugged alpine ridge creates a jagged horizon that stretches across the composition. Snow or ice blankets the mountains at left. Above, the sun peaks over the top of the ridge, sending beams of light across the landscape and illuminated the tallest peaks at right.
Cap
, 18th century
silk, silver-wrapped silk thread Technique: embroidered

Cap for a baby made with a central section and two side pieces. Made of white taffeta with embroidery showing flowers and two insects and ornamental forms and metal thread. Edged with pink ribbon and metallic lace, lined with green silk. Two ribbon ties.
Sidewall
, 1750
leather, silvered, painted and varnished

Vining floral pattern on textured ground.
Little Church near Bel Alp, Switzerland
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 28, 1868
Graphite and white gouache on tan laid paper
drawing

Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view of a small church in the village of Belalp, Switzerland. Perched on the slopes of the Bernese Alps by the Rhone Valley, the church is situated on a curving, uneven prominence. The building itself has white walls, two windows facing the viewer, a shingled roof, and a narrow conical belltower--visible at center. In the background at left and right, the sharp, snow-strewn peaks of nearby alps peek up over the ridge.
Button
, mid-19th century
Silver

1931-59-62: On card D50
Rocaille Arch and Fountain
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775, 1743-1763
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Colonnaded fountain framed by a rocaille arch with birds, dolphins, acanthus leaves, and figural female statues. The plate is signed and numbered.
Trophy Design
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811, 1772
Crayon manner etching in red ink on laid paper
Print

Fourth plate from a series of four ornament prints of designs for trophies. Hanging from tied ribbons - foliate branches with flowers, a birdcage with two birds, one sitting on top of the cage, a bundle of wheat, and a sickle. The plate is numbered, dated, and signed.
The Vestal Tuccia Carries Water in Sieve; Two Studies after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1821–22
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk Support: white heavy wove paper
Sketchbook folio

Upper drawing of woman carrying round tray rushing left toward round temple; behind her crowd of men, and in distance palace and top of obelisk. Lower drawing of emperor or warrior in classical dress on throne pointing at nude man (oversized), held by two men who
are about to beat him with flails. (The man being beaten may be of normal size, and the others youths.) In background various men, one with fasces, and city wall.
Botanical Study
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, 1869
Brush and watercolor, graphite on light cardboard
Drawing

Study of a leafy plant.
Eagle's Nest on Lake Millinocket, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 3, 1878
Graphite on white wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of three trees--one with an eagle's nest--on or near the shore of Lake Millinocket in Maine. At right, a twisted, leafless tree stands alone, while two other, similarly barren trees are visible at left--the innermost tree hosting an eagle's or hawk's nest upon its crown. Its inhabitant, a large bird of prey, is shown flying with its wings aloft at upper center. Other loosely rendered foliage is shown in the background at left.
Ornamental panel
Jean-Siméon Rousseau, 1747 – 1820, 1775–1800
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, ruled border (at left only) on white laid paper
Drawing

The center panel shows an eagle placed upon a thunderbolt between two acanthus scrolls. The lateral one shows a trophy of arrows, a caduceus, a winged helmut, and a wreath. The main panel shows two putti beside flower vases, pairs of swans beside a woman standing atop a classical frieze.
Tile
, 16th century
Glazed moulded earthenware

White, yellow, green, blue and brown glaze, in low relief. Geometrical design, with eight-pointed stars and interlacing bands.
Vignette for "Geographical Atlas" by R. Wilkinson, Africa
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, 1800–1802
Etching with line engraving on paper
Print

The roll is a paper one with a map of Africa.
Portrait of Cardinal Antonio Barberino
, 1647
Engraving on paper
Print

A bust-length portrait in a medallion depicting the young Cardinal in three-quarter view to left. The medallion is supported by a high pedestal. The portrait is flanked by two small putto. The monument is placed is an arched room.
Portrait of Allesandro Capra
Monogramist CAB, ca. 1680
Engraving on paper
Print

Half-length portrait in three-quarter view to right. The smiling architect wears a round hat and a coat with a big square collar. He holds in his right hand dividers; in his left, a sphere.
Lit de Repos à la Turque orné de Sculptures et totalement fini
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a daybed adorned with striped, fringed, and tasseled textiles. The frame is carved with ornament motifs including rosettes, rinceaux, fluting, and ribbon tied branches. The plate is signed and numbered.
Clock Case Design
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, ca. 1900
Photomechanical print
Bound print

Design for a pendule, or clock case, elevated with claw-footed legs with fish scale pattern, and decorated with acanthus leaves, bat wings, scrolls, flowers, and an eagle at top. The plate is signed and numbered.
Table
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Elevation of a table, the base is on the form of two swans with festoons. At top, a frieze of guilloche.
Design for a sedan chair
, ca. 1775
Brush and gray and various watercolors,pen and black ink, black chalk on paper
Drawing

Shown from the left front corner with opened door, directed toward left. The walls of the interior are blue. The window curtains are green with golden fringes. Upon the roofs are five fine apples. It is bordered by standing scrolls. Green tassels hang from the corners, rows of leaves from the rims. The outside panels are framed by pairs of entwined branches. That beside the window shows two crossed palm branches framing the neck and head of a stag. Above is a drapery festoon like those in the lower panels. The bar shows two crossed palm branches.
L'une des face de la Chambre à coucher de Mme. G. à Paris (One of the Walls of the Bedroom of Mme. G. in Paris), plate 37, in Recueil de decorations interieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)
Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838, 1801–12
Etching on cream wove paper
Print

Heavily ornamented doors and wall with blend of ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Greek motifs, including faces, figures, griffins, sphinxes, peacocks, garlands, and laurel wreaths.
Title Page
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Aedicule with a plaque on which the title is carved. The frieze is decorated with a flower-filled vase and rose garlands, scrolling split-leaf, egg-and-dart, and acanthus leaf ornamentation. The plate is signed but not numbered.
Food mold
, ca. 1656
Copper, tin

Concave mold, top fitted with high rim, for support, enframing repoussé figure of a lamb.  Side gadrooned in repoussé.  Base edged with twisted molding, border inscribed with "ELISABET HALDERE EN[backwards]DE 1656" (upside down as if decoration for mouth of a bowl); fitted with a ring for hanging.
Designs for Chairs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Designs for two chairs. The top chair has a rounded back and floral ornament; the bottom chair is a wide, backless chair with high sides for two people, and is decorated with drapery, branch, and palmette motif. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for a salon wall
, 1785-1795
Pen and ink, brush and yellow, rose watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

A mirror with a console at the bottom stands in a niche in the center. Arched windows showing four playing children at left.
Escalier en spiral dit Anglais
Alexandre Tessier, French, active 1800 – 1830, early 19th century
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Design for a spiral staircase with balusters featuring acorn finials at the lower ends by each step. The title below refers to the staircase as an English type. The plate is numbered and includes the publisher's address.
Coupe et Décoration du Sallon pour le Bâtiment Corinthien
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Cross Section of a living room decorated in the Corinthian order and richly carved ornament. There is a scale bar of 12 toises (1 toise was equal to about 3.799 square meters) at the bottom of the page. The plate is signed and numbered.
Decorative Panel Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1777–79
Etching on paper
Print

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 vase of flowers. The plate is numbered.
Designs for Letters
Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s, 1767
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A plate of six designs for the letters ‘U', ‘V', ‘X', ‘Y' and ‘Z', from a series of decorative letters, published in Pouget's ‘Dictionnaire des chifres […]'. The plate features six ornamental inhabited letter designs within pastoral landscapes, two per row, with putti and sheep decorated with rococo ornament - acanthus leaves, scrolling foliate, palms, leaves and garlands of flowers. The plate is numbered.
Ornamental Vase Design
Louis Doré, French, active 18th century, 1750-1800
Etching on laid paper
Print

Lidded vase design with an oval finial and two horned satyrs sitting on the shoulder of the vase. There is a mascaron at the center of the vase; on either side of the mascaron is garland that wraps around the vase and through the upturned handles. The vase has a stepped foot. The plate is signed and numbered.
Riche vis-à-vis Montée sur des Ressorts en C. avec Soûpentes à Crics
Janel, French, active 18th century, 1760-1790
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a carriage with images showing the profile, the face of the carriage, and a detailed diagram of the spring mechanism. At left, is a key of the plan for the design. The carriage is richly decorated with a painted scene of Venus and Mars and flying putti. The carriage is decorated with carved ornament motifs including mascarons and floral bouquets. The plate is signed and numbered.
Five Caryatids
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1800–1825
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on blue laid paper
Drawing

Figures, one beside other. First and fourth figures, seen with upper part of bodies from back, legs in profile; Second and fifth figures raise both arms, while third and fourth raise only their left arm.
Study for "The Triumph of Apollo" for the Ceiling of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican
Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822, ca. 1782
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, black chalk, graphite on heavy cream paper
Drawing

Design for a ceiling.  The octagonal design is divided into four principal panels separated by steeply foreshortened architectural pilasters.  Four groups of figures are depicted that deal with Apollo, the muses and the poets.
Sketches for the Judgement of Paris
, 1660–1680
Pen and ink on blue paper
Drawing

From right to left: Athena sitting with her legs only partly visible. Juno standing beside a peacock. Venus and Cupid sitting. Another apparently sleeping figure is present.
Sepulchral Monument for Melchiore Cesarotti, Professor in Padua
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, after 1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, on blued-white laid paper
Drawing

The monument is shown obliquely. A circular pedestal rises in the center of an oblong rocky base. A female genius stands upon it, her left hand lies upon a cinerary urn, her right holds a laurel wreath. Bowls with flames, supported by swans, flank the pedestal. 

Inscription at the base: 
CESAROTTI.QV/ CIAGE/ E.LA.SUA.GLORIA.VIVE.PER.NOI

In landscape setting. Part of a framing line on top.
Landscape
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a landscape.
Studies for Entablatures and Pediment
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, ca. 1770
Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper
Drawing

Top: four designs of entablature and pediments, which are decorated by moldings. Center left: left corner of an entablature, supported by a column. Bottom left: left side of an entablature and a triangular pediment. Bottom right: composite capital supporting an entablature with decorated frieze and triangular pediment.
Plan general de la foundation de la Serre chaude au Jardin de St. James, et Coupe prise sur EF, et les détails des fourneaux
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural print with a floor plan and sectional views of a glasshouse and its furnace. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Embroidery sample
, ca. 1770
silk, paper Technique: embroidered on a compound foundation

Dark blue ground with narrow stripes embroidered in a border design of floral bouquets in multicolored silks and white.
Fragment
, 18th century
silk; tempera Technique: painted on plain satin weave

Satin ground has alternating broad white and narrow green vertical stripes. Over white stripes are powdered small floral sprays painted in tempera.
Design for a Waistcoat
, 1780-1790
Various gouaches on paper
Drawing

Design for the embroidery at the border of a man's waistcoat. Lilac edges. A bunch of flowers lies beneath the pocket. Boughs rise from the rising edge of the waistcoat.
Studies of Hands for Dome of Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL
J. Carroll Beckwith, American, 1852–1917, 1891–92
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of the left side of the torso of a woman in a sleeveless garment, pointing with left arm extended at level of shoulder; three studies of hands to right.
Cap streamer
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Binche ground

Flowers and leaves on undulating stem with scalloped border.
Design for a Column
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a fluted, Corinthina column with bead course and lamb tongue above the capital. The plate is signed and numbered.
Classical Scene with Figures and Monuments
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Classical Scene with Figures and Monuments. Large figure at center right appears to preside over the gathering, while figure at lower center appears to be begging or punished.
Fragment
, 16th century
silk Technique: woven

End of a shawl or scarf with border design at right angles to the field.
Textile fragment
, 18th century
silk Technique: painted on plain weave

Fragment of yellow silk painted in polychrome tempera - spray of roses, some held in place by ribbons and connected with another spray.
Plate, etching
, 1889
Plate, etching

Sheet metal. On one side, engraved script reading "Feb. 12, 1879-1889". Reverse, plan. Corners cut at angle of 45 degrees. Small punched hole with yellowed ribbon in upper left corner.
Figure and Architectural Sketches with a Boat
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1868
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Mixed studies showing figures, architectural details, and a boat. Throughout left half, four individual figure studies are visible, as well as three men in a boat and a group of four figures with their backs turned. At right, a sketch of a building's roof brackets two details of a bay window, viewed in profile, and a building with an arched collonade around its first floor.

Verso: Sketch of the head and face of an Arab woman, viewed in profile. She wears a broad-brimmed straw hat and spectacles with a chain. Her ponytail falls down her neck and back.
Blue Bird on Bouquet of Roses and Tulips, with Butterflies
, ca. 1800–1830
Pen and ink, graphite on coated wove paper
Drawing

Blue Bird on Bouquet of Roses and Tulips, with Butterflies