biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839, ca. 1800
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Drawing of a surtout de table or deser (table centerpiece) whose theme is the ruins of Pompeii. The table's legs are straight with fluting and a gilded lion mask. The sides of the tables are decorated with rows of moldings, the top being egg-and-dart. At each corner is a high oil lamp in the antique style. The center of the table is stepped. The sides are decorated with figural tablets and swags. Each tablet is topped by a miniature urn, bust, or sculpture. The center of the table features architectural ruins and gilded sculptures on inscribed plinths. This drawing is very similar to another anonymous image produced in the workshop of Giuseppe Valadier. That drawing, in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, which shows the same centerpiece, but without the table upon which it sits. The actual small model of the Temple of Isis belonging to this centerpiece is also at Capodimonte, and attributed to either Giuseppe Valadier or Carlo Albacini.
Fragment
, 1850–99
silk Technique: machine made

Black lace with deeply scalloped edge with upright flowers and leaves.
Design for a keystone and a mask
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, 1750–80
Black crayon, brush and blue-gray watercolor on paper
Drawing

Above, the keystone with two escutcheons, the uppermost with a bearded mask with horns and donkey's ears. Laterally, the cornices of an entablature. Below, a similar mask with open mouth, seen in profile.
Wallpaper Design
, 1830–50
Brush and gouache, graphite on white paper
Drawing

A dado is shown at the bottom, an entablature on top, with a green molding at the bottom. The grey panel is decorated with rows of painted ovoids showing rosettes in frames. Rosettes are in the wedges. The alternative suggestions refer to different colorings.
Study of the Right Forearm of a Woman, Holding an Antique Helmet
, 18th century
Red crayon on light brown paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Study of the bare right forearm of a woman holding up an antique helmet.
Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century, 1729–68
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Design for an asymmetrical cartouche framed by c-scrolls, foliate branches, coral, and wave motifs. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for the upper part of a plant candelabrum
, 1760–1780
Pen and black ink, brush and grey watercolor on paper
Drawing

Consists of twigs and twig scrolls. A wreath hangs on top from a bowknot. Framing line above.
On Way to Chocorua, New Hampshire
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, August 11, 1855
Graphite on pale green paper
Drawing

Shore with woodpile and houses, foreground and right. Bridge, center right, with ridges and mountains beyond. Mount Chocorua at left.
The Old School-House, Illustration for Scribner's Monthly (XVIII, No. 5, September 1879, p. 651)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, September 1879
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Article clipping from Scribner's Monthly on the history on Sandy Hook. Illustration of a school house and a man drawing surrounded by children.
Fragment
, late 17th–early 18th century
silk Technique: 7&1 satin weave with complementary weft patterning and supplementary warp

Silk fragment showing complex symmetrical pattern with florals in salmon, green and white. Backed with blue linen.
Chimneypiece Decoration for a Large Apartment
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774, 1737-1742
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Chimneypiece design with side panels and over mantle mirror. The side panels are symmetrical and feature ornamentation at the top with the head of an animal, arrows, and garlands of flowers. The bow-shaped mantle is ornamented with scrolls and a scallop detail at the center. At the top of the mirror is a panel featuring a mythological composition of a triton emerging from the water at the feet of a young woman; a ship is visible in the background. Ornamentation around this composition include dolphins and shells, and above the frame of the chimneypiece is a group of carved sea-themed motifs, including eels, shells, lobsters, and dolphins. The bottom part of the image includes a horizontal cross section of, from left to right, the "Pilastre," the "Plan du Foyer, et du / Jambrage du Chambranle," the "Plan du dessus de la Tablette," and the "Pilastre." The plate is numbered, but not signed. The page has been cut down.
The Distressed Mother
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, 1785
Engraving on white paper
Print

A mother with four children fleeing from flames, which are behind her, to the right. In back, to the left, public buildings and a thin crescent moon.
Headcovering
, 19th century
silk Technique: bobbin lace, Chantilly style Label: silk bobbin lace

Shaped head scarf or fall cap of black Chantilly-style lace, with a floral motif in the center and at each end with flowering sprays and ribbons filling spaces, within a border of sharply curving bands. Chantilly style.
First Designs for Ickworth House, Suffolk, England
Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804, ca. 1800
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on paper
Drawing

Front elevation of a two-story circular building with engaged columns and with an open loggia below, approached by a flight of stairs.  At either side, connected by wings, are domed, one-story pavilions with colonnades. Indication of scale in pen and black ink in Piedi Inglesi
The Outskirts of Amsterdam
Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801, 1750–75
Hand-colored engraving on paper
Print

For peep show. Horizontal rectangle. In the foreground is a street flanked by two inns, parts of which are shown. In the middle distance is a cross-road with a farm lying at the corner. At left are a group of houses. Walkers and carriages are shown.
Textile
, 1870–80
cotton Technique: roller printed on plain weave

Dark reddish brown ground with an allover design of flowers, Greek frets and small dots in red, white, light brown and black.
Design for the Embroidery of a Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, ca. 1785
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Floral and ship design: an anchor at the pocket, beneath: ships in a storm.
Petites Bibliotheques Ambulantes
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Designs for two small movable bookcases. The bookcase on the right is raised on a bracket decorated with acanthus leaves; the bookcase itself has ornament including bound leaf, rosettes, lamb tongue, and an o-shaped pull ring. The bookcase on the right has open wing shelves and is decorated with ornament including ribbon twist, lamb tongue, and a lion head with ring pull with scrolling acanthus leaves. The plate is signed.
Title Page
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769, 1748
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Title page for a series of ornament prints, designs for ecclesiastical metalwork. The title is lettered within a rococo cartouche formed by scrolling leaves, shells, and floral motifs. Topped by a nude female figure seated on a dolphin with a putto and a shell with foliate branches surrounding and fruit in the lower foreground. The cartouche is a copy in reverse of plate 4.A from Nouveaux Cartouches Chinois designed by Alexis Peyrotte, engraved by Gabriel Huquier, acc. No. 1921-6-522-4.
LE JARDIN DE MR DE CHAMLAY, rüe du Colombier à Paris
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Detailed view of a section of the Garden of the Marquess of Chamlay in Paris. In the center, parterre planting framed by trimmed topiary, trees, and plants, with rows of trees planted in square beds on either side. Figures strolling throughout the paths. In the background, a garden trellis/lattice wall with a central niche framed by pilasters and a pediment, featuring a statue of Diana on a pedestal. Arched doors within the wall, trees beyond. The plate is titled.
Embroidered frontal
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. The left half is shown. The panel is framed by a wide border with obliquely disposed ovoids with rosettes in the corners. In the middle of the panel hangs a medallion, formed by crossed sheaves. Inside is a cross. From the upper edge hang vine festoons and bunches of grapes.
Trophy Design
Louis Denis Fossier, French, 1744 – 1781, ca. 1765
Etching on laid paper
Print

Ornamental trophy design featuring musical instruments, flowers, birds, trumpet, horns, torch, book, violin, and a triangle. The plate is signed.
Opera (Peep-show)
Martin Engelbrecht, German, 1684–1756, 1730–50
Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper
Print

1937-38-9-a: Six figures in histrionic poses in a setting of ar...;     1937-38-9-b: Six figures in histrionic poses in a setting of ar...;     1937-38-9-c: Six figures in histrionic poses in a setting of ar...;     1937-38-9-d: Six figures in histrionic poses in a setting of ar...;     1937-38-9-e: Six figures in histrionic poses in a setting of ar...;     1937-38-9-f: Six figures in histrionic poses in a setting of ar...;     1937-38-9-g: Six figures in histrionic poses in a setting of ar...;     1937-38-9-h: Six figures in histrionic poses in a setting of ar...
Ornament Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731, 1716-19
Etching on laid paper
Print

Ornament design featuring grotesque motifs with a central seated male figure wearing a helmet and holding a spear surrounded by spears with flags, quiver of arrows, and a shield in a niche decorated with a canopy and pilasters, and draped textiles held up by flying putti. The central niche on a large base flanked by arms, quivers of arrows, shields, spears with textiles, griffins, flanking herms, with putti, cartouches, mascarons (masks), shells, palm leaves, festoons of leaves, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The plate is signed.
Music, from a Series of Seated Muses
, 1750–1780
Pen and bistre on paper, mounted
Drawing

Shown from the front. She carries in her right hand a sheet of paper with notes, and supports with her left hand a viola da gamba standing beside her. Lying on the soil are, at left, a horn and a flute, at right a lute. Framed by link lines.
Charles Kemble as the Prince of Wales
W. West, 1821
Engraving, embossed foil, fabric
Tinsel picture

Vertical rectangle. The full-length portrait of a man, facing the spectator. He is dressed in full ceremonial robes, and carries the symbols of his rank in his hand. Thoses areas, including the costume, have been cut out and replaced by tinsel and silk.
Box
, ca. 1785
Tortoiseshell

Dark circular tortoiseshell box with gold border around edge of lid and an illustration of a simple flower and shapes surrounding the central motif on top of the lid
Ruins of a Doric Temple, Corinth, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, Arpil 25-27, 1869
Brush and oil on paperboard
Drawing

Loose architectural sketch of a doric temple in Corinth, Greece with five columns supporting an epistyle, and a sixth broken column. The temple stands on a lush hill with a distant mountain range in the background, rendered in light purple. Light blue-gray color of ground visible around margins.
Plan du Rez de chaussée d'une Maison de Campagne
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1745
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Plan of the ground floor of a country house. The plate is signed and numbered.
Title Page
Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788, 1759–80
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Title page for a series of tailpiece designs featuring putti or children. The title is lettered upper center with six designs for tailpieces below. The vignettes feature putti with rococo ornament, cartouches, and festoons of flowers. The rococo designs include c-scrolls, s-scrolls, shell, leaf, and mask motifs. The plate is signed with the publisher's address below.
Title Page and Arabesque Panel Designs
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1768–75
Etching on paper
Print

Two vertical arabesque panel designs printed on two separate plates featuring vases, baskets of flowers, festoons of flowers, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), festoons of leaves, female figures, birds, cornucopias, mascaron (mask), meander scrolling pattern molding, fluting, gadrooning, and rosettes. The panel design to the left is the title page for the series, lettered in the center. The plates are numbered.
Plan of the Gardens at Versailles
Jean de la Grive, French, 1689 - 1757, 1746
Engraving on paper
Print

Plan of the gardens at Versailles, showing also the layout of teh chateau and town. Upper right, cartouche bearing title, date, and scale. Lower right, key.
Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1738–72
Etching on cream laid paper
Bound print

Lidded vase with a pinecone finial. The vase has two handles made from coiled snakes; one snake bites onto a branch at the bottom of the vase. The vase is elevated on a low pedestal. The plate is signed and numbered.
Army Cook's Tent
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1861
Graphite, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Recto: Horizontal view of an army cook's tent with a row of cauldrons hanging above a fire.
Verso: several sketches, including one of the same soldier drawn on 1912-12-159.
Entablature
, ca. 1840
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle showing design for an entablature with corner at right. A festoon hangs from rosettes set within the frieze. Below this is hangs fringed drapery.
Cup and Saucer with Urn Pattern
Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747, 1780–1800
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
cup and saucer

Cylindrical cup, rectangular strap handle. Flat saucer with flaring sides. Decoration in pale colors, of an urn with foliate rinceaux, and bands of foliage in colors and gilding.
Sidewall
, ca. 1725
Leather, embossed, gilded, painted

Portions of rectangular panels. Shaped framework enclosing conventional design of birds and flowers grouped about a diapered pedestal. Field within framework is blue, outside is gray.
Italienne [et] Encoignure
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a backless chair, and a chair with a right-angled back. The furniture frames are decorated with bound leaves, scrolls, fluting, wave pattern, and a scallop shell; the fabric is striped. The plate is signed.
Playing card
, ca. 1855
Red and black ink, paper

Card numbered at top: O 2 T; below central image: 3
Table cover
, 18th century
linen, wool Technique: cross, satin and stem stitch on plain weave

Rectangular panel, probably an All Souls Day mat, of white linen with embroidery in undyed brown wool in cross, satin, stem and other stitches in design of borders with diagonally placed floral sprays around central ornament. Edged with brown woolen fringe.
Fragment
, ca. 1820
cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave

Fragment from toile "Jeanne d' Arc, a copper plate print. Jeanne is shown in armor, on horseback, bearing a banner with the word "France". Following her are two armed horsemen, and a man on foot with the word "CHARLE-" on the yoke of his shirt. Troops and castle in background.
Title Page
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775, 1890–1910
Facsimile of the original etching (photomechanical or lithography)
Print

Title page for a series of wrought iron or metalwork balustrades, grilles, and gates. The title is lettered within an ironwork cartouche with a balustrade along the bottom. The design features c-scrolls, s-scrolls, scrolling leaves, cartouches, palm leaves, fleurons, festoons of flowers, baskets of flowers, trophies of arms and armor, an eagle, female figure on a cloud, and putti. This series is a late 19th-early 20th-century reproduction from a series first published between 1738-1743.
The Hare and the Tortoise
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1878
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Upper right, profile of sitting hare with legs crossed over, leaning on labelled book. Upper right, back view of tortoise, field and sky in background. Below, twist on the story of the tortoise and the hare.
L'Europe
Marie Michelle Blondel, French, active mid 18th century, 1736
Etching on paper
Print

An allegorical female figure representing Europe from a series of four. The female seated figure is topless and wearing a crown on her head while holding a domed church. Trees and a column in the background with books, a globe, palette and paintbrushes, measuring devices, and cornucopia filled with fruit at her feet. A horse to her right with spears, banners and arms and armor behind her. The vignette is framed by a scrolling cartouche with a shell in the upper center. The plate is signed and titled, signed, and dated.
Design for a Clock with Surrounding Ornamentation
Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796, mid- 18th century
Etching and engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a tall clock case ornamented with scrolls, putti, rinceaux, and garland. On the wall above the clock is a painting of a man and a dog in a rustic landscape; the painting is framed by carved/molded ornamentation. The plate is signed and numbered.
Covered Cup
, late 18th–early 19th century
Glazed and gilt porcelain
cup

Porcelain cup and cover with a decorated handle and gilt initials belonging to a serving set.
Ceiling Designs
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754, ca. 1730
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A design for a ceiling with variations to the design in each corner and sides. Only the cornice is ornamented with rococo motifs - cartouches, fleurons, palmettes, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, fretwork, masks, gadrooning, flowers, leaves, vases, putti, and figures within the cartouches. The upper half of a ceiling rosace in the center, ornamented with similar motifs. The plate is numbered and signed.
Bandbox
, 1840s
Machine-printed paper, pasteboard support

In the shape of a top hat; covered with striped paper in white, gray and red, with portions of foliage stripes.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: woven

Yellow trimming fragment in a design of crosses alternating with lozenges between borders in a chevron pattern; picot edges.
Square
, ca. 1860
linen Technique: needlework on hand knotted net

Square with three concentric cross-shapes, inner and outer in open work, the center one solidly worked. Raised stem and leaf design on diagonals from center.
Side View of Canoe with Two Men
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1895
Crayon on paper
Drawing

Sketch of two male figures in a canoe with indication of foliage in background.
Cartouche with Armorial Trophy
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1738
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Design for upright symmetrical cartouche, topped with a mask and surrounded by ornamental scrollwork. Within the frame, an elaborate armorial trophy featuring a suit of armor, drums, trumpet, a shield, and banners.
Fragment
, 17th century
medium; silk, metallic Technique: plain weave with supplementary wefts

Coral fabric with geometric motifs alternately gold and silver.
Fragment
, 14th century
silk Technique: 2/1 twill with inner warps (samite)

Large palmette-like tree separating vertically symmetrical ships with boys on them.
Escutcheon, No 18 from "Raccolta di varii cappriccii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti"
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664, 1646
Etching on paper; verso: black chalk
Print

No. 18 of the same set as -10, "Raccolta di varii cappriccii," etc. Verso: ribbon scroll
Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Page printed with two plates. The left plate is the title page, with the text printed in the upper center. Below the text is a grotesque baldachin with putti; all of this is surrounded by a frame of scrolls, acanthus leaves, torchères, mascarons, and flowers. The plate on the right features three designs for friezes or panels, with (from top to bottom): a mask with dragons interlaced around it; a Pegasus inside a winged cartouche, with flags; and a mascaron in a cartouche, with tambourine, grapes, vines, mask, thyrsus, and horn around it. Both plates are numbered, but only the right plate is signed.
Mausoleum
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper
Drawing

A pyramidal building is flanked by curved and projecting colonnades, with low tower-like structures at the ends, the sections of which are shown. Caption: "Spaccato della Piazza".
2e. Fenêtre Ionique au dessus du Rez de Chausée ou Belle Etage [et] Ire. Fenêtre Ionique au dessus du Rez de Chausée ou Belle Etage
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Elevations and profiles of designs for two windows decorated according to the principles of the Ionic order to be placed above the ground floor. The plate is signed and numbered.
Tablecover
, 17th century
linen Technique: cutwork on plain weave; bobbin lace

Scrolling vines and leaves cut from a foundation fabric form a repeating pattern derived from an ogee grid. Bobbin lace on all four sides.
Cover
, late 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace

Square grid in which a four pointed star and rosette alternate. They are bobbin lace made to look like gauze. Three knotted tassels are at each end. Intended to look like reticella.
Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs
Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808, 18th century
Hand-colored etching in gray ink on paper
print

Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs
"L'abreuvoir' (The Well)
Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811, ca. 1792
Technique: Plain weave foundation. Printed (with a mordant for red) by engraved plate.
Textile

Several scenes, most involving water or drinking. Included are: village well with animals drinking, drinking outside a tavern and drinking as an accompaniement to dancing. In red on white.
Title Page
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814, 1788
Etching and aquatint on laid paper
Print

Title page for a series of arabesque ornament designs. The title is lettered above a horizontal design featuring two large vases of flowers, two smaller vases of flowers, and a central perfume or incense burner framed by arches supported by columns and festoons of flowers with ribbons. The designs feature textiles, scrolling acanthus leaves, fleurons and rosette motifs. The plate is signed
Fragment
Gaspard Grégoire, French, 1751–1846, late 18th–early 19th century
silk Technique: warp-printed cut velvet

Narrow vertical rectangle with a red and brown central rosette and narrow stems of green laurel leaves on a black ground.
Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Chimney Support Construction
Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942, October 1920
Pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper
Drawing

Design for a mass-operational house by Guimard, detailing the roof supports for the chimney.
Portrait of Robert Grosvenor, Baron of Ebury
D. J. Pound, British, active ca. 1860, ca. 1860
Engraving on paper
Print

Three quarter length portrait of Robert Grosvenor, Baron Ebury (1801-1893), shown seated, facing half to the right, his hands folded in his lap.
Fragments
, late 18th century
cotton; metal threads Technique: embroidered on plain weave

Embroidery in design of curving stems with flowers, buds and leaves in blue, red, brown, and silver thread.
Fragment
, late 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Mechlin-style)

Fragment has a pattern of openwork ovals linked by a scrolling floral vine. Slightly scalloped edge.
Band
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Binche style with Binche ground

Scrolling vine with pomegranate motif.
Scarf
, ca. 1770
piña (pineapple) fiber, silk, cotton Technique: embroidered in satin stitch and drawn work on plain weave

A long, rectangular scarf in sheer piña and silk cloth with cotton embroidery in a design depicting a flowering tree in a bowl at each end, surrounded by a deep floral border on four sides. Edges are scalloped.