biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Coffeepot
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, mid- 18th century
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
coffeepot

Pear-shaped body; scrolled strap handle, bracketed lip; domed cover with knob of flower in relief.  Body yellow, with two shaped panels, outlined in brown, of white reserve with bouquets of flowers; smaller panels on cover.  Handle and lip white, with touches of pink on modelled decoration of shells and imbrication.
Market Scene
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of stalls and figures within a market.
Study for "Niagara"
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1856–57
Graphite on white paperboard; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Niagara Falls from the Canadian Side that is nearly identical to Church's renowned painting, "Niagara" (1857), and likely served as a study for it. In the foreground, roiling water of the Niagara River churn and tumble before they plummet off the edge of the falls, which curves into the middle distance at center and center right from the foreground at lower left. At center, Terrapin Tower is visible beside the heavily wooded Goat Island. Because this view is positioned slightly more to the north than the finished painting, the American Falls are visible in the background at left, beyond Goat Island. A double rainbow arches over the scene from center left to center right.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing the outline of an extremely rugged mountain range with craggy pinnacles, at left, with the sun hanging above a valley, at right.
Plan for the hospital of St. Trinità dei Pellegrini, Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1800–09
Pen and brown ink, graphite, red color pencil on off-white laid paper; verso: pen and brown and green ink
Drawing

More than half of a wing of a building is shown in plan view, architectural drawing. Some of the rooms are marked with letters and writing; "Cardinali A"; "dispensa / B"; "Coeina / C"; "D / Infe / . . ."
Details des Dossiers du Lit A
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Details for the sideboards of the "Lit à trois dossiers" (1921-6-279-3), as well as the pinecone finial for the bed legs. The plate is signed and numbered.
Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des Dessinateurs et des peintres, no.2
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1790–1799
Etching with colored inks à la poupé on off-white laid paper
Print

Lower center, figure in exotic landscape with open air structure.
Frieze
, ca. 1860
Block-printed

Grisaille palmette motif, surrounded by heart-shape.
Dish, ladle and tray
Wedgwood, English, established 1759, ca. 1780
Glazed earthenware (Queen's ware) with overglaze decoration

Dish semi-ovoid with raised ends, on elliptical foot. Tray elliptical, with flat marly. Ladle semi-spherical with curved handle and scrolled end. Borders of brown husk decoration, with dotted and solid bands.
Design for a Painted Square Ceiling
Eugenio Agneni, Italian, 1816 - 1897, 1856
Brush and gouache, graphite on cardboard
Drawing

Horizontal format design for a painted ceiling. In the center is a rosette, supported by four supports rising obliquely from the corners, each consisting of a base, two columns, and a winged bust upon a base as a crest. Between the columns stand putti upon pedestals. Women sit upon the corners of the base. In the center of the sides are pavilions with statues of goddesses; women sit beside. Outside is a framing border consisting of oblongs with representations of putti, and circular oblique representations of the figures of women in the corners. An oblong with a classical representation as the decoration of a part of the frieze of the room is shown.
Study: A left hand
, 1750–1800
Pencil on brown paper
Drawing

Horizontal composition of an outstretched left hand receiving something.
Two Ornament Designs
Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679, ca.1660–1713
Etching on paper
Print

Two plates of ornament designs printed on a single sheet, one above the other. The upper plate features a cartouche with a female figure on a plinth framed by winged putti morphing into scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, rosettes, and festoons of leaves. The lower plate features a lidded vase on a plinth framed by winged putti morphing into scrolling leaves, flowers, rosettes, ribbons, and festoons of leaves. The plates are signed and numbered.
Al-Khazneh, Petra
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February–March 1868
Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Architecture and landscape study showing a view of stone-carved structure known as Al-Khazneh, or "The Treasury," at Petra in present-day Jordan. The immediate foreground along the lower margin consists of sporadic green shrubs growing out of dark soil. At center, the facade of Al-Khazneh is shown at an oblique angle, partly due to the narrow width of the canyon. The structure's Corinthian columns, decorated pediments and entablatures, and other classical architectural features are delineated in greater detail. The cliffside flanking Al-Khazneh is dark and rough with patches of brown and red, colors which are more pronounced in the structure itself. At far left, the entrance the canyon, known as the Siq, is possibly visible beneath a small patch of blue sky.
Design for Embroidered Waistcoat, pattern 1713 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf
Charbon, ca. 1785
Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper
Drawing

Plants, boughs; a string of pearls.
Mt. Katahdin from the East, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1852
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Mt. Katahdin in Maine from the east. In the immediate foreground, rocks, a log, and some vegetation are visible nearby. Dense treetops and rolling, wooded terrain stretches horizontally across the middle distance. In the background, the Katahdin massif is visible with Pamola and Baxter Peaks visible at center and a ridge at right leading to Hamlin Ridge and Howes Peaks. At far right, the sharp, triangular form of South Turner Mountain is visible.
Il Capitano
, 18th century
Carved and painted wood, glass and woven cloth
Puppet

Set of Commedia dell'arte marionettes, each with facial masks and costume of stock character. 
Il Capitano shown with wide-brimmed black hat, a beige tunic and striped cape.
Head of a Woman Wearing a Hat
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, 1728–84
Pen and black ink on laid paper
Drawing

Profile of a woman wearing an elaborate hat and earrings, facing towards the left.
Paysage
Charles Emile Jacque, French, 1813 - 1894, 1846
Etching on China paper pasted down
Print

A woman and child, seen from the back, walk across a wind-swept field, toward a large tree.
Designs for Ornament Motifs
Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796, mid- 18th century
Etching on off white laid paper
Print

Designs for ornament motifs including scrolls, garlands, and rinceaux composed as cartouches, console tables, and frames. The plate is signed and numbered.
Meander Frieze Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647, 1648
Etching on laid paper
Print

Six geometric meander frieze designs. The plate is numbered.
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornaments
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Panel design of grotesque ornamentation featuring motifs such as: dancing jesters, anguipèdes, framed scenes of putti, grapevine wrapped trees, mascarons, statues, birds, scrolls, and monkeys (singeries). The plate is signed with Berain's name, and given the lettering system "L."
Trophy Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Military trophy design incorporating a festoon of leaves, foliate branches, armor, weapons, basket, spears, and flags. The plate is numbered and signed.
Textile
, 17th century
silk Technique: 7&1 satin weave with weft floats bound in 1+3 twill

White figures on a pinkish-brown ground depicting the emblems of the Passion of Christ. The emblems include the cross, nails, crown of thorns, cock, ladder, bag of silver, cat o' nine tails, and sponge on a stick.  Both selvedges are present,  striped green and white satin.
Nature Study
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Study of plants with long branches or stems and flowers.
Braziers and Ornament Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713, ca.1660–1713
Etching on paper
Print

Designs for braziers and details of ornament featuring masks (mascarons), terminal figures, nude man, satyr, winged putto, winged female torso, dragon, flaming torch, festoon of leaves, scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), shells, drapped textiles, fish scale pattern, and gadrooning.
Pedestal
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1780
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Left: the left half is shown. A burning heart in a glory of rays in a barrel wreath is shown in the panel of the front. A gaine of a kind is disposed obliquely at the corner, having on top a cherub. Right: somewhat more than the left half is shown. A similar burning heart is surrounded by laurel branches. Framed by a frame, the upper side of which is shaped as a triangular cornice. A cherub on top of a volute is at the corner. Colored background.
Design for a Decorative Vase
, 1775–1800
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

A dragon serves as handle. The half-figure of a harpy and scrolls decorate body.
Okazaki from the Series 53 Stations of Tokaido
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, 1797-1858
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

Below the bridge is a man washing his horse. The bustling crowd up top compliments the highway below. During this period traveling by boat and moving cargo was the fastest commute.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: tapestry weave

Gold trimming with occasional tapestry inserts of geometrical forms in silver, blue, red, pink and green. Slit tapestry separations.
Europe
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769, 1750–1775
Brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
Print

EUROPE, a helmeted woman, with a scepter and a shield, bearing three fleurs-de-lys, is seated on a crouching horse before a pyramid. At left a kneeling woman with a cornucopia; at right, a seated woman surrounded by attributes, the Church, the Military, and the Arts, points with her hand and with dividers to a globe. Trees, a city in the background. Bottom: "a Paris chez Charpentier rue St Jacques"; "L'EUROPE" "Au Cocq Avec Privilege du Roy".
The Watzmann, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June–July 1868
Brush and oil over graphite on off-white paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the Watzmann in Bavaria, present-day Germany, viewed from near the town of Berchtesgaden. Viewed across a heavily wooded hilltop with a cliff in the middle distance, the twin, sharp, rocky peaks of the Watzmann rise high into the sky. The rightmost peak catches the pinkish light of the setting sun, as does a bank of clouds at upper right. Snow fields and rocky pinnacles between the peaks are clearly delineated.
Bag
, mid-19th century
glass beads, cotton thread Technique: beaded knitting

Knitted bag with colored glass beads in design of a band of roses set between leaf borders; at bottom a lattice design; fringed at top.
Frieze, from the set, "Ornemens à la Mode"
Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder, French, ca. 1515 - after 1584, ca. 1650
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Three friezes; top: with a head supporitng a flower basket; center: with a woman's mask; bottom: wiht a foliated mask. With "Fait par du Cerceau" and Langlois's address, "rue St. Jacques a la Victoire"
Bay window
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1882
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a bay window and cornice from the exterior of the building.
Flounce
, 19th century
linen, cotton Technique: cotton embroidery on linen net

Net embroidered in running stitch in pattern of curving stem with flowers and leaves.
Chair
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1785–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Seen from the front. The frame of the upholstered back is a rectangle with a curve above and below, the latter changing into the inner panel of the central support; it has a trellis. The arms spring from the lower corners of the rectangle. The scroll is, at right, supported at the front by an urn. The front legs are: at left two crossed curved scrolls, at right a chimera. No back legs. On the verso is part of an architectural plan with some dimensions indicated.
Textile
, 19th century
piña (pineapple) fiber, cotton Technique: plain weave

Cream-colored pineapple fiber with a fine check of white cotton.
Pillar strip
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1800
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Below is a crouching lion, upon a base. Between his forelegs rises a rinceau, oak, with two birds sitting upon lateral stems.
Stage Design, Palace Interior
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826, early 19th century
Pen and bistre ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of palace with high vaults, columns with rich sculptured decorations in the foreground. Verso: fragments of draft of letter concerning the artist Toselli.
Portrait of Cassianus Aputeo
Pietro Anichini, Italian, active 18th century, ca. 1640
Engraving on paper
Print

Bust-length portrait of an elderly man in three-quarter view to left. He is wearing a closed vest, showing shirt collar and sleeves; his head is bare. The oval frame is richly ornamented and is set into an octagonal frame decorated with oak leaves. On both sides, two female grotesques holding a flaming case.
Fragment
, 18th century
silk, polychrome paint Technique: painted and printed on plain weave

Panel with several repeats of a conventionalized design made from leaves and flowers, arabesques and curving, intersecting lines.
Ornament Design with Crayfish Motif, pl. 14 in Livre des Légumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament] pl. in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1748
etching on paper
Print

1921-6-212-9-a: A crayfish lies over a shell cartouche and in fron...;     1921-6-212-9-b: Two Fish and a snake (?) lie above a shell fountai...;     1921-6-212-9-c: A rabbit and a bird (up-side down) lay over two cr...;     1921-6-212-9-d: Cartouche framed with leaves and vegetables and ti...;     1921-6-212-9-e: Two birds lie on top of a branch of acanthus leave...;     1921-6-212-9-f: Curving acanthus leaves lie on top of shell.50;     1921-6-212-9-g: Six plates depicting different vegetables. At cent...
Fantasy of Classical Sculpture
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789, 1770
Pen and brush and black ink, wash, black chalk on white laid paper
Drawing

Classical representations of a lamp, an eagle, a bust, a lion, and a medallion showing a warrior in profile.
Bureau à la Royale
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a desk with ornament motifs including fluting and acanthus leaves on the legs, rosettes, ribbon twist, and a central plaque framed with lamb tongue featuring a lion head in front of scrolling vine. The plate is signed.
Old Man Seen from Behind, Profile to Right: Half Figure
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669, ca. 1631
Etching on laid paper
Print

Three-quarter length figure of a man, seen from behind, facing right in profile. His hands are clasped behind him.
Plan de la sepulture du Roy Francois Premier à St. Denis
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Floor plan of the mausoleum of the French king Francis the first at the church of St. Denis. The title is lettered below with a scale. The plate is signed.
Musical Trophy Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Musical trophy design incorporating foliate branches, flowers, fruit, festoon of flowers, lute, bagpipe or musette, oboe, and sheets of music. The plate is numbered.
Portail de l’Eglise du Nouitial des Jesuistes de Paris
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Architectural elevation of the exterior and a section of the interior of the entrance to a church with a scale below. The design is split into two with the elevation on the right and section on the left. The façade features pilasters, frieze, pediments, niches, cartouche, and vase finials. The interior features an altar with columns and a balustrade. The plate is titled.
Edge lace
, 18th century
linen Technique: needle lace

Edging lace of Point d'Alençon with a design of leaf sprays and flowers and short, twisted ribbons in "petit réseau." One edge worked in fine mesh with picots on cordonnet.
Petite Royale
Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776, 1772–77
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

A design for the upper section of wrought iron gates topped with a gate crown featuring the French royal cipher of interlaced L's within an oval roundel, flanked by rosettes, and fleurons. The gates are flanked by stone walls. The plate is titled, numbered, signed, and features a scale.
Frame
, 1720–1780
Carved and gilt pine

The moulded central frame projects from a panel with a lozenge ornamentation incised in gesso. It is framed by an aediculum of a kind, the base of which is formed by leaf scrolls which are connected by a hanging palmette. Laterally are curved and foliated pilaster strips. Two foliated volutes form a pediment on top from which lambrequins hang. A palmette stands on top.
Aurora over the Hudson Valley, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, December 23, 1864
Graphite on gray wove paper
Drawing

Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a view of the aurora borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, over the Hudson River Valley, as seen from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Along the lower margin at center, the top of a hill or mountain ridge is briefly visible. Above, colors in the sky are rendered through subtle gradations in the graphite shading. At upper center, a vertical column of luminous light visibly streaks through the night sky.
Menuiserie du Sopha A
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Plans and profile design for the carpentry of the sofa depicted in 1921-6-331-38. The plate is signed and numbered.
Portrait of Jean Paul Bignon, Abbé of St. Quentin
Pierre Drevet, 1663 - 1738, 1707
Engraving on paper
Print

Half-length portrait of a man, facing the spectator, the head turned toward the left. Enclosed in an oval frame, on a pedestal. Arms below in a cartouche. Title in frame. At lower left: "Hycinthus Rigaud pinxit"; at lower right: "Petr. Drevet Sculptsit."
Man Ringing a Bell
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1773
Etching on laid paper
Print

Plate from a series of chinoiserie prints depicting figures in landscapes. A man wearing a hat with a bell, and a sword, rings a bell hanging from a roofed structure in a garden landscape with a trellised fence in the background. The plate is numbered, signed, and dated.
Stucco Decoration
, 18th century
Pen and ink, brush and sepia on paper
Drawing

At the upper left is an oblong with hemicycles above and below with a man sitting inside. Outside, a volute motif, intended to be repeated four times with motif of the background left undecorated. At the edges are remnants of a framing line. On the reverse are remnants of sketches in horizontal direction done in pen and ink. Towards the left are a group of heads of size men and the right has two parts of escutcheons.
Pleated fan
, 1900–1910
Painted silk leaf, carved and gilded wood sticks

Pleated fan with  white gauze leaf painted on the obverse with a design of poppies. Sticks are carved wood with red and gilded poppies.
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1765–73
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for fantastical chinoiserie-style flowers from a series of six plates. A variety of differently shaped and sized sprigs of flowers and leaves flowering from the same looping stem. The plate is signed.
Alegory of Religion
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1825-1850
Graphite on paper
Drawing

The figure of Religion, bearing a cross, accompanied by small angel-like figures of children, rises from an open altar on which a chalice has been placed. Two figures stand, left. A nude woman reclines, right. Figures in background, right.
Design for a Painted Porcelain Tray
Jacques-François Micaud, French, ca.1732–1811, ca. 1766
Brush and watercolor, gouache, pen and brown ink, black chalk on cream laid paper
Drawing

Slightly scalloped painted porcelain tray in elevation (above) and in plan (below), decorated at quadrants with floral sprays of pink roses, yellow and red parrot tulips, and daisies and one spray at center.  Border consists of six blue acanthus leaf scrolls, with gold border at edge. Elevation above is undecorated.
Trees by a Stream in Orizaba, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, January 1893
Graphite on light brown wove paper
drawing

Botanical and landscape sketch showing a view of a trees by a stream in Orizaba, Mexico. In the foreground at center, a tree grows diagonally out of the bank as it hosts numerous plants on its boughs and in the niches of its trunk. Its upper branches extend out of frame. At left, the gentle stream snakes into the middle distance, where the trunks of two other trees are faintly visible along the bank.
Botanical Sketches from the Rio Magdalena, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April–May 1853
Graphite and oxidized white gouache on gray-blue wove paper
Drawing

Botanical sketches showing nine views of trees, treetops, plants, and leaves along the Rio Magdalena in Colombia. At upper left and center, two trees with tall trunks and wide canopies are shown. Two palm plants are visible at right, with two others at lower left. At lower right, trees and treetops are loosely rendered.
Strapwork Design
, early 17th century
Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Strapwork design with putti, caryatids and masks surrounds an oval reserve.
Study for festoons, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1895–1898
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketches of draped festoons. Top left: a festoon surrounds a column. Bottom, a hanging festoon.
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
, 1819
Cast bronze
Medal

Bust of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657 -1757).
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 festoons of flowers, leaves, an oval medallion, scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux), ribbons, rosettes, and c-scrolls.  The plate is numbered.
Purse
, 18th century
silk, wool, metallic thread Technique: embroidered

Small case covered with embroidery in an allover design of four-petal flowers in compartments and against trellis. Picot edging.
Medallion
, 3rd–4th century
Warp; S-spun wool. Weft; S-spun linen, S-spun wool. Technique: Slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping.

Tapestry square mounted on plain weave linen. A square at the center with interlaced circles superposed on four different designs. Wave border on all sides.
Design for a Salon
François-Jacques Delannoy, French, 1755 - 1835, ca. 1785
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

A long side wall with a mantelpiece with a mirror at the center.
Button
, 1844–75
Brass

Circular buttons decorated with upright sword on four crossed flags surrounded by the words "Etat Major des places".

Components -a,-b are on card i, were not originally labeled with components
Ceiling paper
, 1890–1900
Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

Conventional floral design in green and rust color on tan ground, white circles and lines, mica finish.