biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Project for a Church Ceiling
, 1675–1700
Black crayon, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Ceiling divided into three scenes framed with coffers. At center, within a lobed cartouche, is the Virgin and Christ Child with a glory of angels. Two oval panels show cardinal coat-of-arms.
Design for a Clock
, early 19th century
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Design for a clock on large base with decorated frieze with acanthus scrolls beside a plant. Above the base, a pedestal with a piece of a fluted column. The former is decorated with a festoon supported by ram hands. Dial of the clock is in the front of the pedestal and column.
Sidewall
, ca. 1780
Block-printed on handmade paper

Drop-repeating design of tripod and bouquet of flowers, with foliage scrolls and addorsed birds. Printed in pink on blue ground. Vertical rectangle printed on joined sheets of paper.
Irlande et sa Religion, (Ireland and its Religion), portal design for plate 44 in the "Nouvelle iconologie historique"
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789, 1765
Pen and brush and black ink, wash, black chalk on white laid paper, pen and black ink framing lines
Drawing

In the form of a portal, two caryatids support a pediment, with swags encasing a central medallion.  Lower right, a drawing of religious attributes leans against the door.
Brown Bird on Branch with Rose, Tulip, and Insects
, ca. 1800–1830
Pen and ink, graphite on coated wove paper
Drawing

Brown Bird on Branch with Rose, Tulip, and Insects
View of Venice, Italy
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1880–1881
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of the bell tower in St. Mark's Square, Venice.
Arabesque Design
Michel, French, active 18th century, 1780-1784
Etching on laid paper
Print

Arabesque design with winged figures blowing trumpets at the center of the composition, seated near an altar with a torch. The bottom half of the figures transform into acanthus leaves. The arabesque also features a basket of flowers at the bottom, spiraling reeds, garlands of flowers, twisting snakes with arrow tongues, and squirrels. The plate is not signed or numbered.
Floral arrangement
, late 18th or early 19th century
Brush and gouache on black ground
Drawing

Garland of flowers in white, orange, and mauve on black ground.
Textile
, 19th century
silk, paper with applied gold foil Technique: plain compound twill

Black twill ground with incomplete design, in flat gold threads, of cloud forms. Gold leaf almost entirely gone.
Frieze
, 1890–1900
Machine-printed, ingrain paper, mica

Wide frieze containing white and gold flowers tied with white ribbon, gold and white stylized floral and leaf banding at bottom, printed on pale green ground.
In a Park
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877, ca. 1850
Graphite, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

A lane, and a dilapidated house with a porch supported by two columns, are shown. A medieval tower rises above the trees in the right background.
Miya: Atsuta Terminal of the Shichiri Ferry (Miya: Atsuta no eki Shichri no watashiguchi) from the Series 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, 1797-1858
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

Half of a torii divides the print in half. This welcome sign hints that the gathering in the scene is a welcoming of sorts. Women finely dressed in kimonos are greeting men who are also well adorned in kimonos. Behind them are boats docked for the evening. Out on the purple horizon are ships sailing away.
The Genius of the Painter
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664, 1645–47
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Vertical etching of the genius of the printer is represented by the figure of a young man, almost nude, seated at right, facing left in profile.  Before him is an altar dedicated to the Goddess of Painting.  He holds a trumpet in his left hand; a book in the other on which appears the inscription: "Genium Jo. Bendicti Castilionis Ianuen-Inv. Fe." At the left are two children, one beating a drum; the other holding a basket filled with doves.  Above, a genius blows the trumpet, while pointing to the crown of immortality.  At lower right, an inscription dedicated to M. de Mernhe, seigneur de Clootvyck.  Center below:  address of G.J. de Rossi and date.
Workman
, 1700–1736
Black crayon on paper
Drawing

A carpenter with chisel and hammer shown from the back.
Tsuba
, 1596–1615
Pierced iron, engraved brass inlay

The iron tsuba is round in shape, with sukashi (openwork), and has hon zogan (true inlay) decoration of shinchu hira (flat brass) showing mon-jirushi ni mogosa (various crests with waterweed). This Bizen Yoshiro style of inlay does not stand above the surface of the iron, and was a specialty of the Fushimi Yoshiro, Takahashi school. 

At the center is the nakago-ana, an opening through which the sword passes. At left is sashi ura, the side which faces the blade. Its opening takes the hangetsu-kei (half moon) shape  and has shinchu fukurin (brass rim) covers. Surrounding these openings, is the seppadai, a flat oval area that is migaki (burnished). The rim of the tsuba is round, or maru-mimi.
Landscape
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Rector: Sketch of a fence with foliage; Verso: Sketch of a male figure.
La Veue de la Vigne Pamphile du Costé des Jardins
Gabriel Perelle, French, 1604–1677, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

View of the garden façade of the Palazzo Pamphilj in Rome. The garden in the foreground features two levels with parterre planting, a fountain, vases on plinths and planted vases. Figures throughout the grounds. The plate is titled and signed.
Corniches d'Impériales de Lit
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Two cornice designs, one above the other. The top cornice is decorated with, from top to bottom, acanthus leaves, bead course, baluster, and lamb tongue with leaf dart ornamentation. The cornice profile is provided on the left, as is a scale indicating "2 Pouces 5 lignes." The lower cornice is decorated with, from top to bottom, lamb tongue, egg and dart, and rectangular block ornamentation. The profile of the cornice is provided at the left, as is a scale marking of "2 Pouces 3 lignes." The plate is signed and numbered, but does not indicate an album letter.
Elevations of a wall, ceiling, mantelpiece
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Elevations of a wall, ceiling, mantelpiece.
Four Ornamental Rosette Designs
A. Panier, French, active 18th century, 1767-1793
Crayon-manner engraving with red ink on paper
Print

Design for four rosettes with floral ornamentation. The print is engraved in red ink (sanguine) crayon manner. The plate is not lettered or numbered.
Project: a fountain in honor of Emperor Napoleon
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1796–1801
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Shown like 1938-88-1774. The design is a variation of that of 1938-88-1774. Urns containing fires stand upon the enclosure. Upon the ledges stand genii, blowing trumpets, upon trophies of arms, Neptune stands before the pavilion. No inscription is shown but a statue is written in the pavillion. Dark brown framing band. Framed by gray-blue paper stripes.
CABRIOLET
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1796
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Profile and rear view of a design for a carriage seat decorated with ornament motifs including ribbon, floral garland, scrolls, ribbon twist, bouquet of flowers. The plate is signed and numbered.
Trophy Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1779–90
Etching on paper
Print

Six designs for pastoral and music themed trophies incorporating flowers, festoons of flowers and leaves, roundel portrait, caduceus, lute, sheets of music, basket of fruit, jug, a guitar, and horns. The plate is numbered.
Coffres Forts
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Designs for two safes, decorated with ornament motifs including floral relief, lamb tongue, rose wreath, lion head, fluting, bound lead, scallop shell, and acanthus leaf. The plate is signed.
Sketch of a Right Hand
, early 18th century
Red crayon on brown paper
Drawing

Sketch of right hand curving downward with index finger slightly extended.
Arabesque Design
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796, 1788
Etching and aquatint on laid paper
Print

Arabesque ornament design with neoclassical motifs. Two putti sitting on a platform, hanging miniatures, ribbons, and festoons of flowers, with scrolling acanthus leaves, fleurons, s-scrolls, rosettes, and two lions. The plate is numbered and signed.
Façade d'un Bâtiment de l'Ordre Ionique Elevé sur une Terrasse
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Façade of a building decorated in the Ionic order and featuring figurative statues at the roof. 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.
Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa,(Fukagawa Manne-bashi no shita) from Thirty-Six Views of Fuji
, ca. 1830
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

This landscape view features a crowded bridge, filled with pedestrians. Below, a body of water decorated with boats and fishermen. Located on the bottom right is a man sitting on a pile of rocks, fishing, alone. In the distance, snow-covered Mt. Fuji and two pagodas. This print is from the series, Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku Sanjuroku Kei).
Bandbox
, 1820–35
Block-printed paper on pasteboard support

Box covered with an irise or rainbow paper. A textile design motif of acanthus leaves enclosing a formal floral bouquet. Foliage framework shades from yellow to orange, bouquet of gray flowers over which a second stencil of fine diagonal lines in white has been used. Background is a bright blue-green. Cover is of same.
Sunset near Olana, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1870
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard with orange back
Drawing

Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing loosely rendered view of Hudson River Valley and tumultuous, stormy sky, from the artist's estate near Hudson, New York. Foreground slope painted in deep green with trees at right. Terrain in middle distance an indefinite expanse of yellow, green, and grey. Above, a stormy sky features several cloud types, varied in both texture and color. A pink/red-orange band of light illuminates the lower register of the clouds.
Détails d’une Glaciere precedée d’un Temple Egyptien et surmontée d’un Kiosque le tout construit dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Archte. des Monnoies de France
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

A sectional view within its landscape and floorplan for an icehouse, kiosk, and Egyptian style temple with obelisks, columns, sculptures, and hieroglyphs. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Ornamental Frame Design
, 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a frame decorated with basket of flowers, fountains, vases, scrolls, floral garland, and scallop shell.
Moon and Clouds, Terni, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 1, 1868
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Atmospheric sketch showing the moon reflecting off clouds at night over Terni, Italy. At center, the moon peeks over a cloud bank while other hazy clouds hang above.

Verso: Atmospheric sketch showing the moon shining through clouds at night over Terni, Italy. At center, the moon is visible behind hazy clouds while dark, heavy clouds hang above.
Valentine
, ca. 1850
Embossed cut paper with gilt paint and chromo-lithograph additions
Greeting card

Within an embossed cut paper frame, with arabesque ornamentation is a vertical oval containing an inscribed printed paper heart, with a silk bow below and flowers in chromolithograph and gilt paint. Double sheet folded in half, horizontally.
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Composition of grotesque ornamentation with monkeys (singeries), anguipèdes, medallions, scrolls, garlands, satyrs, griffins, and strapwork. The plate is not signed, but it is lettered "C."
Ascension of the Virgin
Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647, ca. 1630–40
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk Support: paper, white, laid
Drawing

At top center: The Virgin rises up into the heavens, looking upward with hands clasped, surrounded by winged angels.  Below St.Thomas (?) and other spectators look up at the virgin.  Between the two men an angel is seated holding Mary's girdle wrapped around its arm.
Title Page
René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723, 1772–77
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page from a series of twelve designs for ornamental pendant trophies. The title, names of the designer, print maker and the address are lettered in the center within an ornate architectural frame, featuring ‘rocaille' scrolls, palm leaves, vases, with foliage, wave and shelf motifs, and rosettes.
Design for Five Choir Stalls
, 1580
Pen and ink, brush and bistre wash on paper
Drawing

The main decoration consists of escutcheons. Those in the bottom row are empty, except for the central one, in which is written: "questo e la parte/din anzi." St. Jerome, a Pope, St. Francis, Bishops are represented over the seats. Upon the back corners are statues of St. Luke, at left, St. Mark, at right.
Design for Ceiling Decoration
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Symmetrical, rectangular design features figural panels with round central panel.
Fragment of an orphrey band
, 16th century
silk, metal-wrapped linen core yarn Technique: compound satin weave Label: Silk metal-wrapped linen compound satin weave

Poly-winged angel over a flaming circle enclosing 'IHS'.
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Matthias Nicoles Marie Vivier, French, 1793 - 1830, 1818
Cast bronze
Medal

Bust of C. Simon Farart.
Foliate Scroll Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647, 1648
Etching on laid paper
Print

Four foliate frieze designs featuring classical motifs - acanthus leaves, scrolling leaves, flowers, and palmettes. The plate is numbered.
Title Page and Staircase Balustrade Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Title page and design for an ornamental ironwork staircase balustrade decorated with arms and armor, French royal emblems including the fleurs-de-lys and head of Apollo with sun rays, palm leaves, festoons of leaves, fleurons, foliate scrolls (rinceaux), rosettes, foliate branches, ribbons, egg running pattern, lion and ram heads, fluting, profile portrait, putti crowning the French Royal coat of arms with three fleurs-de-lys, and scrolling leaf clasps. The title of the series is lettered above. The plate is signed and numbered.
Wall Elevation with a Buffet-Niche
Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792, mid- 18th century
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

An interior wall elevation with ornamental rococo paneling and a central two-tiered buffet-niche. The buffet features vases of flowers and fruits, plates, platters, ewers, cups, and garlands of flowers, with a console table or display table in front of the niche. The decoration on the six carved panels on either side and above the niche features fleurons, leafy sprigs, garlands of flowers, shells, acanthus leaves, and c-scrolls. The larger panel on the left features a wall fountain, decorated with a mask, tiers of shells and leaf motifs. Below the other five panels and the niche is a plain dado level. No dado level for the panel with the wall fountain. Below the elevation is a scale and an outline of the wall paneling, as seen from above, illustrating the shape and depth of the carving.
Portrait of Dr. Juan Caramuel de Loblokowitz
Giacomo Antonio Mannini, Italian, 1646 - 1732, ca. 1680-1690
Engraving on paper
Print

Portrait bust in frontal view. The sitter, an old man, is wearing a cardinal's cap, a scholar's jacket and a coat over his left shoulder. The portrait is in an oval frame which rests on a pedestal. On the right, a mitre and a book, left a book and an inkwell with pens. over the upper left corner of the frame hangs a drapery.
Palastre à une seule entrée
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a rectangular lock casing framed by a border of lamb tongue and bead course ornamentation. The design features a rosette on either side, surrounded by a bead course, and in between which is a stylized acanthus leaf that wraps partially around both rosetted. The key port is on the rosette on the right. The plate is signed and numbered.
Detail from a Frame or Molding Design
François Roumier, French, 16..–1748, 1750
Etching on paper
Print

Design for a corner detail of a frame or molding featuring scrolling leaves, acanthus leaves, strapwork, palmettes, foliate branches, and a dragon. The plate is numbered.
Study for a procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1895–1898
Black pastel crayon, graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of male and female figures in procession through an arcade with columns and pedestals. Similar to -1, showing the figure from the maenad to the group inclusive.
Sample
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA, ca. 1915
silk, metallic thread Technique: satin compound weave

Reproduction textile with a design of paired birds and dogs standing over a foliate ogive. Adapted from from the Cooper Union Museum collection.
Side Chair
, 1750–60
red walnut, silk damask (modern)
chair

2006-5-1: The pierced back splat and crest carved in rococo ...;     2006-5-2: A four leg chair with a decorative cut out back an...
Textile
, late 18th century
silk Technique: plain weave with supplementary warp and weft

Continuous blue-on-blue pattern of three naturalistic curving floral vines with a bird perched on a flower placed side by side. Branches of flowers nestled on each curve of the vines.
Illustration for "Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner"
Noël Le Mire, French, 1724–1800, ca. 1799
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Illustration for "Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner"
Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Cross Section and Floor Plan
Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942, October 1920
Pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper
Drawing

Design for a mass-operational house by Guimard. This design showns a cross section and floor plan of the house.
Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palms)
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815, ca. 1787
cotton Technique: block printed, yellow and blue applied by brush, on plain weave foundation Label: block printed cotton, yellow and blue applied by brush
Textile

Block printed cotton with exotic plants including an aloe and a diminutive palm tree with a butterfly, in bright colors on a white background.
Design for a Frontispiece or Title page
Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian, 1637 – 1695, 1691–1700
Incised lines, pen, ink, sepia wash. Paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. The coat of arms is shown supported by a column in front of a niche in the center of an exedra. Two flying angels carry a paper scroll over it. King David playing the harp appears upon clouds stand upon pictorial columns, in the foreground.
Woman with Two Children and a Donkey, plate 21 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770, 1750–1760
Etching on laid paper
Print

Frsit state, before the number
Studies after Four Statues on the Tomb of Julius II, after Michelangelo: Moses; Madonna and Child; Leah, Virtue; Rachel, Religion
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1821–22
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on white heavy wove paper
Sketchbook folio

All four drawings are after sculpture on the tomb of Julius II, in S. Pietro in Vincolli, Rome.
Study of Left Hand
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, 1893–94
Graphite on blue-grey paper
Drawing

Study from the model. Left hand of a woman. Shown in profile from the thumb, hanging. The arm is horizontally shown to beyond the elbow.
Via crucis - Station IX, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Third Time
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804, 1748
Etching on cream laid paper
Print

Only state
Valance
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815, 1783–89
linen warp, cotton weft (Z-twist) Technique: relief printed

Long valance, shaped at bottom, block-printed in red and very dark brown. Spray of very small red flowers with dark brown foliage, in leaf-shaped enframement; background solidly block-printed in red picotage, overprinted in dark brown in separated clusters of dots. Faced at back with same material on which appears stamp of the Oberkampf factory: ''Manufacture Royale de S.M. Oberkampf A Jouy Près Versailles Bon Teint.'' Valance is pieced in two places. Center breadth is full width 32'' wide, and printed design starts about 1'' from selvage. Valance is trimmed with pale blue linen braid, with two loops at upper corners; lined with bits of linen, and plain cotton, and partly faced with the printed material.
Study for "Martha Washington Reception"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1860
Graphite, White Chalk Support: Gray Wove Paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Woman seated facing frontally, her head turned downwards to the right. Her hands clasped in her lap. Her skirt sketched.
Collar
, 17th century
silk, metal, linen Technique: satin stitch embroidery, edged in couched gold cord

Pair of separate collars called apparels, slightly curved along top edge, with deep rounded side at bottom, to be worn over and outside a vestment. Yellow satin, embroidered in silk and metal thread. Design shows, center, in oval; a cardinal's hat above a lion rampant. Strap work frame around oval; a curving vine flows from each side, and borders of conventionalized vine edge top and bottom. Flowers and leaves worked in colored silk, in satin stitch and edged in gold cords, which are couched in colored thread. Trimmed with narrow edging formerly of heavy gold thread now tarnished, and with silver strip through center. Apparels have loops for fastening, at each end. Lined with linen.
A Fortified Building Near the Water's Edge
Antoni Waterloo, 1618–1677, ca. 1650
Etching on paper
Print

A fortified building with a circular keep is seen near the water's edge. In the left foreground a boatman ferries a cow across the stream.
Portrait of Ferndinandus de Beughem, Bishop of Antwerp
, ca. 1700-1730
Engraving on paper
Print

Within an oval frame is the bust portrait of a cleric, wearing a skull cap and ermine cape. Below, his escutcheon and motto, and inscription.
Fragments
, 14th century
silk Technique: two integrated fabric structures; 2/1twill plus plain weave.

Confronted falcons with spread wings in cream on green.
Arm with a Drawn Sword, Tailpiece for Franx Kugler's "Geschichte Friedrichs des Grossen, Leipzig, 1840–1842
Hieronymus Heinrich Jakob Ritschl von Hartenbach, German, 1796 - 1878, 1840–41
Wood engraving on paper
Print

Bock 616. Verso: bottom part of a prospectus of the publisher F. Volckmar in Leipzig. Tailpiece as -138
Dyer's record book
Old Pacific Print Works, Lawrence, MA, USA, 1876
paper and cotton

Small notebook with handwritten formulas for dyestuffs for printed textiles. Contains 97 swatches in a variety of designs.
Study for Christ, Chancel of St. Bartholomew, New York
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, 1893 or 1894
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch for Christ in the painting in the chancel of St. Bartholomew, New York City. The arms are out to either side, and the beardless head is lowered.