biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Fruits à l'eau de Vie (Fruits in Plum Liquor) for the Services des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, 1819–20
Pen and brown-gray ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper, border in pen and gray ink
Drawing

Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Scene inside a liquor shop. A figure of a boy, center middleground, stands on a chair in front of shelves holding jars of fruits in plum liquor. He has just dropped some jars on the floor and is about to jump off the chair when he sees two people observing the mishap through a barred window, rear left.  Another child and a shop worker, in the lower right corner, turn around towards the boy to observe the unfortunate event.
Cap streamer
, late 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style

Cap streamer with a dense, asymmetric floral and foliated pattern.
Segment of a Floral Wreath
, ca. 1802
Brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Segment of a wreath of poppies and blue cornflowers.
Bentwood Rocking Chair
, ca. 1900
painted maple
rocking chair

Carved seat; four cylindrical legs sit on rockers, stretchers between legs each side; tall curved back and arms formed from bent wooden branches, three vertical ribs on back, radiating up from seat.
Perpetual Calendar
Ortensio Toro, Italian, active 16th century, 1594
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Circular table, with the arms of Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini in center. At top, title and description, and at bottom, dedication, date and author's and publisher's names.
Point Levi From Boat
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925, ca. 1881
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Water and sailboats, foreground, ridge and mountain, beyond.
Amerique
, late 17th century
Terracotta
Stove Tile

Allegorical figure of America; relief figure in regal attire, with feather cap and aigrette, holding a club; attributes: two macaws and tropical fruit.
Skirt panel
, early 19th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: applique

Lower part of a light brown satin skirt panel with a scalloped bottom edge accentuated by daisy-like flowers, arcs and V-shapes of applied white satin sprinkled with sequins. Band of stylized flowers above in white and multicolored silks, metal thread, purls and sequins. Remainder decorated with widely spaced pairs of tiny flowers. Serpentining diagonals in chain stitch.
Rubus odoratus
Jarry, French, active 19th c., ca. 1820
Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper
Print

One stem with leaves, three pink flowers and four buds, resembling the wild rose. Title in Latin and French, and artists' names below.
Miser's purse
, early 19th century
silk, steel Technique: beaded crochet

Crocheted dark green silk ornamented with cut steel beads in diamond and dot patterns.  Two steel rings control side closing; steel bead tassels at either end.
Sketchbook Page: Yellow Lily
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, 1874
Graphite on paper
Sketchbook folio

Recto: Sketch of lily from above. 
Verso: Faint sketch of leaves or flowers on a stem.
Starboard Side and Details of 5075 Tanker, Showing Camouflage
Griffith Baily Coale, American, 1890–1950, 1917–18
Color lithograph on paper, laid down on cardboard
Print

Ship seen facing right. Design of camouflage in large arcs. Above, six details of patterning. Specifications given in box, upepr right. Approved, lower right.
Design for a Plate or Bowl
Noritake, Japan and New York, New York, USA, 1880–1910
Brush and gold gouache, watercolor, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Gold decoration of a plate or bowl over watercolor flowers. Decoration made up of scalloped, shell-like edges, C-curves and scrolls, butterfly motif; floral decoration underneath is composed of pink and purple flowers with green leaves all peeking through the gold filigree-like design. Several graphite sketches of tableware in upper margin.
Rainy street
Félix Hilaire Buhot, French, 1847–1898, ca. 1875
Etching in blue ink on white paper (faded brown)
Print

A street scene with heavy rain. Many people with umbrellas hurrying toward left. A lit streetlamp at left.
Frieze
, 1900–15
Machine printed on ungrounded paper

Stylized late art nouveau, cluster of three stylized tupils, upright, alternate with peony-like flowers arranged symmetrically on leafy stems with stylized buds near base, with fill pattern of brown dashes.
Frieze
Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

Medallions, alternating in shape, with a vase-like shape in the center, surrounded by a wreath of flowers. The medallions are connected by two swags, one a series of flowers and leafs, the other a series of delicate acanthus leafs. The background contains a faint pattern of leafs and small dots. Printed in gold, white, and shades of green.
Sidewall
, 1850–55
Block printed on paper, satin ground

Green foliate scrolls enclose grisaille scenes of two houses beside a road, and a church and horse beside a stream with a bridge, together with clusters of grapes and apples. Three full repeats of the pattern. Printed on green polished or satin ground.
Vase
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967, 1898
Glazed earthenware

Cast white clay body.  Elongated ovoid body with raised cylindrical neck, slightly flaring; circular foot.  Underglazed slip-decoration on front with three stalks of golden yellow foxgloves, with green leaves and stems.  Central stalk extends over shoulder and onto neck.  Background shaded from green at base to gold at shoulder.  Allover yellow glaze; fine crackle.  Bottom and interior glazed.
Cap crown
, mid-18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style

Cap crown of Brussels-style lace. Symmetrical arrangement of bowl of flowers surrounded by leaf forms
Textile
, ca. 1840
silk Technique: compound satin

Coral-red satin ground with very large scale floral serpentine pattern in cream and pale green twill.
Frieze
, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper

Red flowers enclosed within foliate medallions. There is a small band of foliate scrolls at the top. The fill is a brown stripe.
Architectural Details of Stone and Ironwork in Venice
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925, 1885
Graphite on brown paper
Drawing

Wooden brackets, grillework, and detail of stone frame of tablet.
Design for a floor covering
Standish, about 1894
Black ink, water color, on paper. Red seal
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. The lower right section of the design, showing the adaptation of classical motifs. A tile floor covering.
Border
, 1835–1900
Block-printed on machine-made paper

A grisaille imitation molding with acanthus leaves alternating with floral medallions in the rectangular dentils. A band and reel edging decorates the bottom of the border. Printed in grisaille.
Textile
, 619–29
wool, cotton Technique: plain compound weft twill

Horizontal rectangular piece showing upper right-hand section of large pearl-bordered roundel curving over one bird head (duck or flamingo?) with bunch of grapes suspended from bill (complete roundel probably contained confronted birds on either side of Tree of Life) in undyed cotton on rust-red wool ground.
Band
, 16th century
silk, metallic yarn on linen Technique: back stitch embroidery and couched metallic-wrapped silk on plain weave

Design shows a stiffly curving stylized vine through which move a lion pursuing a youth, a cupid (?) blindfolded with bow and arrow, a dragon, and birds. The gold thread is couched on, to produce the main body of the design, and is outlined in red silk, in part of the piece, then pale pink silk. Metal-wrapped silk couched by silk of various colors, padded couching, couched loops of metal-wrapped silk, attached coils of flat metal strips. Metallic yarns are couched in pairs for large dense areas, two plied Z for outlines, and two plied Z and re-plied S for outer border.
Elévation et Profil d'un Commode ceintrée
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevation, profile, and plan of a design for a chest of drawers with six drawers on each side. The chest is decorated with ornament motifs including medallions with crossed branches, drapery, fluting, and acanthus leaves. The plate is signed and numbered.
Les Solitaires de Normandie
, ca. 1788
Engraved, hand-colored and painted paper leaf, turned wood handle
Handscreen

Handscreen with paper leaf and turned wood handle. Obverse: hand-colored engraving of a couple building a treehouse in the forest, surrounded by a frame of hand painted motifs. Reverse: dialogue from the comic opera "Les Solitaires de Normandie."
Tree Roots on a Hillside, Prout's Neck
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1884
Charcoal, brush and white gouache on laid paper
Drawing

Bare juniper tree branches spread diagonally over a hillside.
Trimming
, 18th century
silver in flat strips wound on a silk core Technique: bobbin lace, metallic

Band of silver lace made up of three pieces. Insertion is in the design of a serpentine stem with a scalloped border stitched to either side.
View from the House of Dr. Garcia, Near Pandi, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1853
Graphite, brush and white gouache and oxidized white gouache on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing view of a mountainous, wooded landscape near Pandi, Colombia. Wooded hillside in foreground gives way to a valley in the middle distance and other mountains, faintly rendered, in the background. Low clouds stretch through the valley.
Pangbourne Weir
David Law, British, 1831 - 1901, ca. 1880
Etching in dark brown ink on paper
Print

A landscape with a river in foreground; a weir in mid-distance. Farmhouses in mid-distance, left. Trees are in foreground, right and left. Inscribed, lower left: "Published by Messrs Dowdeswell". Signed (in pencil), lower right: "David Law".
The Parthenon Lighted at Night, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1869
Graphite on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Architecture and landscape sketch showing a nocturnal view of the Parthenon in Athens, artificially illuminated with red and green flares in celebration of the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting the city on April 21-22, 1869. Encompassing the majority of the composition, the Parthenon stretches from the left margin to the right as it is viewed obliquely from the front. Its ruinous facade is visible at right, partially illuminated. Each flanking and frontal column is softly lit, though largely enshrouded. Terrain below the building hastily rendered.
Bag
, 17th century
silk Technique: knitted

Red and white silk knitted bag with drawstring top and tassel at bottom. Ornamented with bands of spot motifs including ships, figures, birds, etc.
A Bombardment That Would Paralyze Them
Frederick Burr Opper, American, 1857–1937, ca. 1893
Colored lithograph on paper
Print

A settlement of four houses in foreground is bombed with soap products, towels, water barrels, etc. from a fortress background. People are running out from houses in panic. Illustration for back cover of Puck, Vol. XIII, No. 319, April 18, 1883.
The Coronation of the Virgin
Simone Cantarini, Italian, 1612 - 1648, ca. 1640
Etching on paper
Print

The Virgin, standing on a cloud, rests one foot on a crescent moon. She is being crowned by two angels.
Hillsides, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1865
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing view of mountainsides across a narrow valley in Jamaica. Below, and at left and right, trees and branches frame the scene, which is characterized by a hazy, golden light.
Flowers, Plate 14
, 18th century
Engraving on paper
Print

Flowers in various stages of bloom.
Ceiling medallion
, ca. 1860
Block-printed paper

Vertical rectangle. Two large circular medallions, outlined in lighter gray on gray field; each contains a wreath of roses and periwinkles. In the center of each is a conventionalized lotus rosette, in gray. Printed in colors on gray ground.
Plate
Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738, 1745–49
Tin-glaze earthenware

Octagonal, with a scalloped edge.  Decorated with grotesque figures including a monkey band and a helmeted man carrying a shield inscribed "San-Peur" (Without Fear).  Border of insects and flowers.  Grayish green and ochre on white ground.
Wild Plantain, 20 Feet High, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 1865
Oil over graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Botanical sketch showing multiple closely grouped plantain plants in the Jamaican forest. Prominently positioned at center right, the plants' thin, straight stalks culminate in large, elongated green leaves that gently bend towards the ground. Other nearby plants are clearly rendered, notably a large fern in the lower left corner. Behind, the artist gives the impression of plant stalks and stems by scraping away the brown-green ground, which is visible throughout the composition.
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), flowers, textiles, and fleurons. The plate is numbered.
Design for a Printed Border
, 1810–20
Black chalk, brush and gouache, blue ink on paper
Drawing

Lower left corner is shown. From inner side of waved leaf bough rise boughs with leaves and blossoms. In the corner rises obliquely fantastic plant with three Persian cone leaves with seeds.
Petit-Pied ou Caise a Bouquets. Table Ronde avec Tablette au dessous
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevations and plans for designs for a small side table that can hold flowers and a side semicircular table with a shelf below. The furniture is decorated with ornament motifs including interlaced piastre, rosettes, fluting, garlands, wave pattern, scrolling acanthus leaves. The plate is signed and numbered.
mount
, ca. 1730
bronze, gold

Gilt bronze figural mount of two satyrs holding a shell.
Fragment
, 13th century
silk Technique: compound weft twill (samite)

Fleur de lys within a diamond grid on a banded background in beige, white, blue and green.
Monument Designs
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 1768
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Two plates printed on a single sheet illustrating monuments (funerary monuments) with descriptive text featuring sculpted figures, heraldry, cartouches, portrait busts, arms and armor, mascarons (masks), deer, putti, festoons, columns, and pediments. The plates are titled, signed, numbered, and dated.
Music
Robert Samuel Marcuard, British, 1756 - before 1788, 1777
Engraving in sanguine ink on paper
Print

A woman sits at a table, turned to the right but facing slightly left. A violin is beneath her right hand, and a sheet of music in her left.
Letter case
, late 17th century
silk and metal-wrapped silk Technique: plain weave with discontinuous weft (tapestry)

Cover of silk and metal thread in tapestry weave, depicting a landscape and animals; paper lining.
Ornament Design
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663, 1662
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Vertical rectangle completely filled with swirling arabesques and acanthus leaves. Tangled at center is a nude grotesque. The plate is signed.
Textile
, 19th century
piña (pineapple) fiber, silk Technique: plain weave

Sheer cream-colored ground with fine vertical stripes of pale blue silk.
Design for a Mustard Pot
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822, early 19th century
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Design for a mustard pot intended to be executed in partly gilded silver. Below is a circular base with part of a sphere in the center. The supports are four scroll legs, fluted in the lower parts of the front and fastened together by a ring with rosettes. Above are Medusa masks which are connected by festoons, upon the bowl. the rim has a wave ornament. In the top of the corner is a pomegranate. At right is the spoon shown in three-quarter profile, with the bowl below.
Head of a Soldier
Giuseppe Zocchi, Italian, 1711 or 1717 - 1767, ca. 1760–1780
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

The soldier in a pointed and visored helmet faces left, one art at this side, the other outstretched.
Design for Grotesque Panel
, 1650
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Design for panel with grotesques. At center, three medallions, the largest at center. Moulded oblong frame with a bottom ornament. Grotesques in the style of Bérain. A medallion with a figure of a setaed old man addressed by a putto is shown in the center over a canopy, under which a figure that may be Venus and two doves are supported by a faun's mask.
Champan Canoe, South America
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1853 or 1857
Graphite on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a covered riverboat or canoe known as a champan, piloted by five individuals. One stands at the helm, wearing a hat and poncho and manning the rudder; another stands atop the canopy, guiding the boat with a long pole; two others row near the boat's bow while another, possibly a woman, cooks beside them, facing forward. The champan is long and slender in form, with triangular tips. Scratchings at lower right.
Table de Jeu
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevations and plans for two game tables: on the left, a convertible table for checkers or chess; on the right, a round card table. The plate is signed and numbered.
Waistcoat fragments
, ca. 1770
silk Technique: satin stitch embroidery on taffeta

Two fragments from the top central portion of an embroidered waistcoat. Design has flowers and leaves with one piece containing the buttonholes.
Study of stag head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, ca. 1900
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of a stag head.
Design for the Letter G of a Pictoral Alphabet: Greek Warfare
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. Greeks are seen assailing a fortress.
Gate in the wall of a park, with alternate suggestions
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1792–1794
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

The wall is bordered by two pillars with rustic work having on top a ball upon a foot. At right is a gate wing, consisting of iron railings. At left, a column is suggested instead of the pillars. It has a band, in the height of the entablature of the wall, around the shaft, with "1789". On top is the ball crowned with an obelisk. The widths of the column and of the gate wing are inscribed; so is the height of the plinth of the column. Written in it is: "questo" and below: "colonna Miliare".
Study of a Rearing Horse after Leonardo da Vinci
Francesco Melzi, Italian, 1491 – 1570, ca. 1520–25
Red chalk on cream laid paper, lined
Drawing

After Leonardo da Vinci: Study of a horse rearing to the left; the horse's head and neck are twisted backward, toward the right, in the direction of the flying tail.  The volume of the horse's body is carefully rendered in light and shade; the lower part of the horse's legs is only partially indicated. The drawing appears to be a copy of the original Leonardo drawing in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (England): Study for the "Battle of Anghiari" (Royal Collection #12334).
Design for a Door and Overdoor
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-laid paper
Drawing

Both of the two door foldings have above and below a small rectangular panel and in the center is a large one. The small panels are decorated with a festoon hanging from bowknots, the latter with an oval representation of the figure of a standing woman. They are framed outside by a wreath which is connected by a stem with a lion mask above, below the molded frame. The overdoor shows the picture of the entrance into a fortress. Wall as usual. On the reverse is a sketch, pen, of a doorcase with the door.

Verso: sketch of a doorcase with the door
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Matthias Nicoles Marie Vivier, French, 1793 - 1830, 1822
Cast bronze
Medal

Bust of Philippe Quinault (1635 - 1688).
Five Alternative Designs for Altars
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692, 1690
Etching on paper
Print

Five designs for ecclesiastical altars featuring paintings and sculptures of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Saints, and angels. The altarpieces are framed by decorative paneling (boiseries), pilasters, sculpted moldings, with scrolling leaves, fluting, festoons of leaves, flowers, trophies, mascarons (masks), palm leaves, roundels, and friezes. Each design includes a scale below. The plate is signed and numbered.
Broüette vue par le Côté
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century, ca. 1750
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Plate 2, Folio 2 of a series of 13 prints of designs for carriages or coaches. Carriage decorated with rocaille motifs, shown in elevation, with details of the various parts at upper left and upper right. The body of the coach consists of a single painted panel featuring a chinoiserie scene of a figure smoking a pipe and holding a monkey in a garden landscape.
Interior Scene with a Solicitor/ Lawyer surrounded by Names of Parisian Gunmakers
C. Jacquinet, French, active 1650 – 1660, 1660
Engraving on laid paper
Print

In the center, an interior view of a solicitor's office with a man wearing glasses and a hat seated at a desk and writing on a piece of paper. A dog at his feet. Two men and a young boy standing in the room. A large window to the right with a view of buildings. An almanac on the wall. And an open door to the left. Names of gunmakers / gunsmiths in Paris surrounding the scene, lettered within ornament and gun parts. Text lettered below the scene relating to the work of a gunsmith/gunmaker and solicitors. The ornament features grotesque ornament, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, mascarons (masks), angels, roundels, armor, and cartouches.
Kin-chaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord
, ca. 1750
Leather (purse); ivory and shibuichi (netsuke), enamel on copper, silk (cord)

Purse of Cuir de Cordoue — Dutch leather tooled in a floral design on a grained diapered field, gilded and painted. Edges and seams bound with a tan leather. Flap closing with ornament over clasp of Fujiyama, in colored enamels on copper. Netsuke of ivory openwork, showing design of peony flowers and foliage. Ojime, flowers of various colors on a green field. Cord of blue silk.
Ring
, 19th century
Silver, paste stones, two human teeth

Silver ring said to be a memorial to a child. In a silver setting are two teeth surrounded by a ring of green and red paste jewels; one heart-shaped piece and two pieces in design of keys are attached to small rings on the ornament.
COQUETIERS
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820, 1805
Etching on paper
Print

Six designs for egg cups with Empire style motifs including chickens, chicks, nude man and woman, dolphins, feathers, florets, rosettes, and foliate scrolls. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Rain in the Mountains
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1860–1880
Graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a view of a rainstorm over a mountainous landscape, likely in the Hudson River Valley. At upper left, a loosely defined cloud pours rain in diagonal streaks. At center, a dotted line curves from lower left to upper right, possibly delineating the boundary between falling water and sunlight. In the distance at lower right, a dark, shaded cloud is visible in front of a line of rainclouds that emit rain in a shower and lower center, above a wooded mountain ridge. Nearby trees and a distant mountain are included at lower right. 

Verso: Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of low-lying clouds above a rolling landscape. At center, several puffy clouds hang above a long and low bank of clouds that, itself, is just above a slightly undulating landscape.