biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
LA PEINTURE
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1749–61
Etching on laid paper
Print

Allegorical print representing the art of painting with two winged putti in the clouds. The one in the foreground is sketching a portrait bust in front of him, while the other looks down and gestures to his sketch. At their feet the attributes of the arts, with a palette, paint brushes, scrolls of paper and a female bust with an easel behind them to the right. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Roofs and Treetops in Ambato, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 17, 1857
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of roofs and treetops in Ambato, Ecuador and the surrounding, mountainous landscape. In the foreground at center, a portion of a tiled roof is visible at right with an awning that leads to a thatched roof at left. Behind them, multiple trees are visible including one--at center--that is particularly tall. At lower left, a small sketch of a man wearing a brimmed hat and a bandana is visible beside four trees that resemble cypresses.
Fragment
, 4th–5th century
linen, wool Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft loops.

Large circular motif filled with interlacing around a rectangle/ Both the design and the background have a pile surface because of weft loops.
Buttons
, mid-19th century
steel and copper

circular, flat buttons made of small facetted knobs arranged in two rings around a central boss - backed with copper - copper shank.

component -a is on card 60
Components -h/-j are on Cooper Union Exhibition card 1
Botanical Detail Studies: Hollyhocks, Blueberries, and Blackberries
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, 1875–80
Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Botanical detail studies. Top and left center: six designs of details of a hollyhock. A part of a plant with an unfolding bud, two petals and two leaves, a bud, a calyx and two petals are shown. Bottom left: two designs of parts of a blueberry bush with berries and leaves. Right center: A blackberry bough.
Design for Stucco Decorations of Panels
, mid- 18th century
Red crayon on paper
Drawing

Vertical format design for stucco decorations of panels. An escutcheon with a standing female is topped by acanthus scrolls. It is supported by a kind of pedestal, composed of scrolls, a shell, a mask.
Design for Wainscoting with a Mirror
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1745
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for panelling on either side of a large mirror. The panels feature ornament motifs including putti, mascaron, and scrolls. At the base of the panels, and on either side of a sofa, are console tables with vases, candelabra, and clock.
Cain and Abel, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"
Eugène Moreau, French, active 19th c., 1871
Stencil-colored lithograph on paper
Playing card

Playing card from a set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"
Profil d'Entablement Corinthien couronne avec fronton développée dans ses proportions
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Design for a Corinthian entablature decorated with lamb tongue, ribbon twist, bead course, rosette, acanthus leaf, and egg and dart motifs. The plate is signed and numbered.
Facsimile of original marriage certificate of Charles II and Catherine of Portugal
, 19th century
Lithograph on paper
Print

Facsimile of original marriage certificate of Charles II and Catherine of Portugal
Towel fragment
, 17th century
linen, cotton Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft

Supplementary blue weft floating alternatively face to face with a design of prancing unicorns. Boars underneath the unicorns.
Elévation d'une porte avec son profil
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Elevation and profile of a doorway. The doorframe is decorated with ornament motifs including scroll brackets with acanthus leaves and bound leaf garland over a rosette. The plate is signed.
Study of man and woman
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, ca. 1878
Brush and oil on wood panel
Painting

Partial sketch of a male figure and a female figure.
Design for Two Chandeliers, Two Gueridons, and a Wall Bracket with a Vase
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1745
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Designs for gueridons, chandeliers, and a console supporting a vase. The plate is signed and numbered.
LA SCULPTURE
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761, 1737
etching and engraving on paper
Bound print

Print after an overdoor painting of an allegory of sculpture. A woman sits sculpting a male figure, within an arch. A winged putto is up a ladder to the left, holding back a curtain, with another sitting, measuring a sculpted bust with a caliper, a third putto sits within the arch to the right. The arch is decorated with a rosette, and garlands of flowers. The sky is visible in the background. The title is lettered below, and the plate is signed.
Figure of a Rooster
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776, ca. 1760
porcelain (probably soft paste), vitreous enamel
figure

Polychromed figure of a rooster on a rocaille pedestal.
Brisé fan
, 1820–30
Painted horn sticks with steel spangles, silk ribbon, mother-of-pearl washer

Brisé fan with sticks of horn painted with leaves and roses at the tips and decorated with steel spangles; silk connecting ribbon; mother-of-pearl washer at the rivet.
Ornament and Panel Designs
Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711, ca.1670–ca.1700
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Two plates of vertical ornament designs featuring arabesques and grotesques motifs printed on a single page. The designs feature Apollo's head, masks, vases, quivers of arrows, spears, festoons of fleurons, cartouches, scrolling foliage, rosettes, acanthus leaves, and c-scrolls. The two inner designs are running patterns featuring scrolling foliage, c-scrolls, fleurs-de-lys, and fleurons. The plates are numbered.
Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, 1590s
Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk on laid paper
Drawing

Description: Recto, above left: The Slaughter and Miraculous Healing of the Monks of

San Salvi. At left, assassins loyal to the Bishop of Florence strike down monks. At right, St. Giovanni Gualberto heals them.

Recto, below left: The Trial by Fire of Pietro Aldobrandini at Settimo. At

the request of St. Giovanni Gualberto, Pietro Aldobrandini, at center, walks barefoot across a blazing pyre. He is unscathed, proving his righteousness, resolving a dispute with the Bishop of Florence.

Recto, above right: An Angel Visits St. Giovanni Gualberto on his

deathbed. In the saint's bedroom, monks gather around the dying man. The angel appears in the background beyond.

Recto, below right: The Miraculous Meal at Vallombrosa. Monks sit at

tables in a refectory, refusing to eat the meat they are being served. In the background an angel appears, bringing bread wrapped in cloth for the monks to eat instead.

Verso, above left: The Destruction of the Monastery of San Pietro at

Moscheta. In the foreground at right, St. Giovanni Gualberto stands with fellow monks on the banks of a swollen stream. At his command, the stream floods and destroys excessively rich monastic buildings.

Verso, below left: The Miraculous Storm at Moscheta. The saint appears at

the entrance to the monastery, at the top of flight of stairs. Below appears a carriage surrounded by attendants who run and cover their heads to protect themselves from a sudden downpour. The rain, indicated by vigorous vertical lines, helpfully prevents the weak St. Giovanni Gualberto from traveling.

Verso, above right: A Miraculous Distribution of Grain at Vallombrosa. At

the entrance to the monastery, St. Giovanni Gualberto watches in the foreground as his monks distribute a miraculously inexhaustible supply of grain to the poor, who are suffering from famine. They exit left.

Verso, below right: St. Giovanni Gualberto Visits a Sick Woman. People gather around her bed.
Design for a monument in a church
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, 1750–55
Graphite, pen and sepia ink, brush and black wash on laid paper
Drawing

A high parapet connects opposite pilasters of a church nave. It is interrupted by a door opening in which two men stand carrying books. Over the door are a paper scroll entwined with a garland and a broken pediment in which the bust of a man stands before an ovoidal niche. A stylishly clad young man looks up to the last. Bordering line at the bottom; underneath: the plan and the scale: "Scala di Palmi….Dieci Romani."
Button
, late 18th century
Stoneware

1925-2-15-a: Circular medallion in the style of Wedgwood Jasper...
Ornamental Vase Design
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1755-1768
Etching on laid paper
Print

Vase design with strap handles. The vase has a narrow mouth, and is decorated with acanthus leaf, gadrooning, and garland ornamentation. The plate is signed and numbered.
Veüe generale de Fontaine-bleau
Pierre, I Patel, French, ca. 1605 – 1676, 1660–1703
Etching on laid paper
Print

Bird's-eye view of the chateau of Fontainebleau, its gardens, and surrounding landscape, with its buildings, courtyards, formal parterre planting, trees, and large pond with ships sailing. Figures in the courtyards and grounds. In the foreground, trees framing the scene with the artist sitting and sketching the scene. Details are numbered with a legend below. The plate is signed and titled with a short description.
Sampler
, 1807
silk and cotton embroidery on linen foundation Technique: cross stitch on plain weave

Alphabets and geometric motifs, primarily black.
Studies of a Heads, a Woman and Two Children
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796, ca. 1780
Crayon-manner with red ink on laid paper
Print

Three studies of heads - a profile view of a women wearing a bonnet and two young boys - from a series of figure studies for the education of artists and amateurs, printed in red ink in the crayon manner. The plate is numbered.
Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762, 1738-1749
Etching on laid paper
Print

Ovoid vase with three handles that fan out at the base of the form. The neck of the vase is decorated with an acanthus leaf pattern, the foot of the vase with repeated egg carving. The vase has a tall, narrow foot with fluting, and is elevated on a square plinth. The plate is lettered and numbered.
Jupiter and Mercury as Guests of Philemon and Baucis
Hendrick Goudt, Dutch, 1583 - 1648, 1612
Engraving on paper
Print

With the caption of four lines in the bottom margin. A poem of four verses, and the dedication of the print to the artist's father with the date.
Flying Angel
, 1820–40
Pen and black ink on rough paper
Drawing

Vertical format. Flying angel shown directed toward left. The raised left arm with finger pointed covers most of the face. The right hand is lowered, legs are bent back. Framing line at left.
Button
, mid-19th century
steel

1931-59-311-a: circular, convex buttons ornamented with nine smal...
Three Chair Designs
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1849–66
Etching on paper
Print

Designs for two armchairs and one chair featuring sculpted wooden frames and upholstered with textiles featuring strapwork, scrolling leaves, fleurons, flowers, and shell motifs. The plate is signed with the printmaker, publisher, and original designer, and numbered
Sketch, Maple Tree
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, June 9, 1915
Graphite, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

On recto and verso: a tree; captions: "Old maple tree on Broad St / Clarement N. H." and the date respectively in ink over graphite. "See other side" is written in graphite on either side. On verso, inscribed beside in graphite: "Sol…(?) Green yellow / inclining to chrome".
Design for Allegory of Sculpture
Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808, 1775–1800
Black and white crayon on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle with a tab at bottom edge, showing a seated woman working on a bust with a chisel and hammer. A completed bust beside her.
Design for Clock
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai, 1800–1825
Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and yellow and red-brown watercolor on cream laid paper
Drawing

Base on cushion feet, front panel represents Cupid, his wings being clipped by four girls. Above, a dial, a woman playing a harp at left. Cupid, at right. Books and a paper scroll to right of clock. 

Lower center:

Inscriptions: Pen and brown ink: Terpsichore pincant de la harpe avec l'amour / E.D.W.F. n.g.g.d. / [unreadable]

Lower right: Cooper Union stamp #457D
Texas Landscape
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February 26, 1890
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of flat terrain in Texas, seen from a railroad car. In the background, a line of trees and a house are visible along the horizon at center. The interceding flat terrain is covered with grass.
Handscreen
, mid- 18th century
Gilded and painted paper leaf, turned wood handle

Handscreen with a gilded and hand-painted paper leaf.  Obverse:  rocaille, insects, flowers and blue and white porcelain. Reverse: a flowering branch with pink and blue blossoms. Turned wood handle.
Side chair
, ca. 1870
Satinwood with painted decoration, ivory, caned seat

The chair's caned seat is rounded at its corners.  Its openwork back has drapery swags joined by small diamond-shaped medallions painted in black and white with cherub figures.  The legs taper and are painted with vertical lines and foliage; the back supports are similarly decorated and have ivory finials.
Portrait of Marquis Niccola Santagelo
Tommaso Aloysio-Juvara, Italian, 1809 - 1875, 1850-1870
Engraving on paper
Print

Half-length portrait in three-quarter view to right. The sitter, a middle-aged man wears an evening jacket with orders.
Cover for "Archibald the Cat"
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1878
Printed in black ink and red ink on blue paper
Ephemera

Left; seascape. Upper left, three owls perched on a branch; upper right, man in sky with saw in the right hand, string tied around him. Lower left, tail of serpent extending into horizon; center left, setting sun smiling in the horizon. Right, cover for Archibald the Cat. Wind said, with inscription, black cat behind sail, left.
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes Standing, with Separate Left Hand Study
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, December 18, 1880
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Drawing

Standing female figure, turned towards right, gazing upwards towards left. Her left hand sketched in a different pose, at right. Verso: Study for a left hand.
Landscape at Twilight
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, probably 1850–55
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch of hilly terrain at sunset with a lake in the foreground at right and a house with a barn on cultivated land beside it at left. A dim, yellow sky illuminates the horizon while, above, a large cloud bank dominates the sky and is tinged with pink and deep red light by the setting sun.
Toasting Fork with Pivoting Head
Robert Stocker, 1886
silver
fork

Three-tine square fork pivots horizontally on a tubular sleeve chased with two rounded bands.
A mountainous landscape
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811, 1763
Brush and watercolor, pen on paper
Drawing

Horizontal drawing of two peasants on a road, at left, with a flock of sheep and a donkey.  The younger of the men carries a bundle upon his right shoulder.  At right, in the forground, is water, and a village in the middle plane.
Windswept Tree, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1844 and June 1845
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
drawing

Botanical sketch showing a view of a mostly leafless, windswept tree in or near Catskill, New York. Its undulating trunk curves toward the upper right corner, and its various branches are twisting and sharp. Two or three lower branches, however, have leaves.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of nearby overlapping mountain ridges, viewed from an elevated perspective in or near Catskill, New York. In the immediate foreground at left, a portion of a birch tree is shown. In the middle distance, a steep, rugged, and wooded mountain slope descends from left to right and overlaps another nearby wooded ridge that descends from right to left. Beyond, mist or low-lying clouds hover at the same height as the mountaintops. In the background at left, hazy clouds fill the sky.
Bird cage in the form of a circus wagon
, 18th century
Painted metal wire, sheet metal
Birdcage

In the shape of a circus wagon, on four wheels with axles; central portion of roof arched, door and handle on each side of arch, shallow crown-like decoration and handle at top of arch; doors on long sides of cage; pull-out pan with handle on bottom of cage; decorated with looped, braided and coiled wire and tiny metal leaves.
Church and Mountain Range, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February–April 1889
Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of a large, domed church in Mexico, backdropped by a large, rugged mountain. In the middle distance at center left, the church's immense dome bulges out of a complex of other church structures. Treetops or bushes are visible around the bases of these buildings. In the background at center left, a large, wide mountain with three sharp peaks backdrops the dome, while at center right, a shorter, flatter mountain is visible.

Verso: Minimal landscape sketch from Mexico showing the contour of a rugged mountain range at far right. Likely part of a larger panoramic view.
Fragment
, mid–late 18th century
cotton Technique: blue resist on plain weave

Design of buds and blossoming flowers in white on a blue background.
ELEVATION DE LA FACADE D’AMALIENBOURG DU COTE DE L’ENTRÉE
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1771
Engraving and etching on paper
Print

An exterior elevation for the entrance façade of Amalienburg, a building in the gardens of the Nymphenburg Palace, Munich. The building features sculptures and vase finials along the roof balustrade. The building is set within its landscape surrounded by trees with a Latin verse lettered above. The plate is titled, signed, dated, and numbered.
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Louis Michel Petit, French, 1790 - 1844, 1822
Cast bronze
Medal

Bust of Gérard Audran (1640 - 1703), to the left.
Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1783 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, German, 1726 - 1801, 1782
Stipple engraving and etching on paper
Print

The heading - except for the bottom slope of C - and the caption cut off. Top row: 1: hairdo with roses. 2: lowered head, in profile, to left, with a hat with ribbons. Center: 3: head in three-quarter profile with ribbon. Bottom row: 4: lowered head, in profile, to right, a rose in the hair. 5: head with a cap.
Portique de treillage en face du Parterre de l’orangerie
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, 1670–95
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two plates printed side-by-side on a single sheet. Both proofs are before lettering with their titles inscribed in ink below each image, within the plates. Left plate: A large trellis gate surrounded by water with a bridge leading to the gate. The gate is decorated with a rosette, finials, s-scrolls, pilasters, and panels. Through the gate, an arched hedge is visible and trees. Figures walk and stand around. Right plate: A large trellis gate surrounded by water with a fountain visible in the background through the arches. The gate is decorated with pilasters, a colonnade, and pilasters. Trees visible in the background and on either side of the gate. Figures in the foreground and on the island.
Design for Wall Decoration
, 1590–1600
Pen, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Beside probably a door, a panel with a vase, and one with the illusion of a door. below scale. Evindently mounted on paper by the artist. On the back, in the handwriting of the period: "sc-4" (price).
Entrance to a Mosque
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of four male figures entering a mosque.
The Retalliation, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1780 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, German, 1726 - 1801, 1779
Stipple and line engraving on paper
Print

A chimney-sweep trying to blacken a boy on the street. A mother tries to prevent his doing so, from behind the door. The poem tells of a man who is blamed by the world and retalliates by speaking evil of all mankind.
Projet de Porte d'Appartement fait pour M.e la Baronne de Bezenval
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1740
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

Elaborate engraving of wall elevation showing door through which is seen a partial view of Louis XV table and chair. To left of door a Louis XV chair. Partial view of fireplace, an elaborate wall bracket with two lights and central mask, two birds on top of wall bracket. In a niche above door, an urn filled with flowers and leaves. Walls are highly carved in period boiserie.
Costumes of Sicily
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829, 1828
Pen and black ink, and watercolors on paper
Drawing

A man with a donkey carrying baskets with fruits is shown at left in the middle distance. "Venditore di Frutta di Monreale." In the corner are a woman with a dog, "Donna di Catania," a woman and a man with gun and sword, "Vomo, e Donna della Piana de Greci." At right are a standing woman and in front of her a seated woman with a child, "Donna di Siracusa. Donna di Palermo."
Fantastic flower motif from "Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers de fleurs idéales"
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, ca. 1760
Etching a la poupée and green, red, blue, ochre, and purple inks on paper
Print

A spray of imaginative flowers. At lower left, spade-shaped leaves with red orbs at center, resembling berries. Above, to the right, three stems covered in smaller flora leading to larger bulbous and feather-like blossoms in blue, ochre, and purple.
Tassel
, 18th century
silk and metallic thread on a wood core

Tassel with a turned wooden core (cylinder, bulb and flange) covered with yellow silk and gilt threads in wrapping, trellis, and twisted rolls. Skirt of twisted yellow silk and gold threads. Loop of yellow silk cord at top.
Saulée aux Environ de Paris
Paul Huet, French, 1803 - 1869, ca. 1860
Etching on tan paper, laid down
Print

Two figures are seen on a path which runs between two shallow pools; willows on the right. Trees in distance.
Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1777-79
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A design for an interior wall featuring ornately painted panels, with a canopy bed (Polish bed or lit à la polonaise) set into a niche in the center, with a large painted panel or tapestry on the niche wall. The wall panels are decorated with flowers, ribbons, scrolling leaves, fleurons, festoons of leaves and flowers, flaming torches, bows, arrows, and hearts. There are single doors flanking the niche with overdoor oval paintings or panels in marquetry of flowers framed by pearls, fleurons, ribbons, and festoons of flowers. The bed linen is decorated with tassels and festoons of flowers. The canopy is topped with feathers, and the niche is framed by curtains with flowers. The large panel in the niche features a bird with a lyre, and flowers. The plate is numbered.