biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Study for Watercolor, Siena Cathedral
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, ca. 1872
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Drawing

A view from the third bay of the left aisle of the Cathedral. The altar of Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini is shown at left. A man is singing in the choir. Worshippers are shown.
Les Bordes de la Seine à Rouen
Alfred-Louis Brunet-Debaines, French, 1845 - ca. 1935, ca. 1872
Etched on cream paper
Print

Barges are tied up at a wharf in the foreground on which two men stand in conversation.
Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903, ca. 1890
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Nude female figure lying on back, head to left of composition and seen in foreshortening, with right arm brought across in front of body. Above, paper pasted to drawing, with sketch of head in less foreshortened position.
Sampler
Sarah Lands, American, 1821
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation

Sampler with a single alphabet at the top, and dominated by a very stylized basket of flowers. With the date 1821, the initials CL, and the name Sarah Lands.
Title Page
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741, 1712
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Title page for a series of fireplace (chimney piece and mantel). The title is lettered within a wreath frame on the upper section of an overmantel mirror. The design is split in half with two different designs for the overmantel treatment and wall paneling (boiseries). The design features rococo ornament and motifs, floral diaper patterns, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, running patterns for the molding, c-scrolls, strapwork, and palmettes. The mantel is marbled and the backplate decorated with a diaper pattern and interlaced L's. There is a wall sconce with two candles to the left of the fireplace set within a narrow horizontal panel. The wall elevation features a central fireplace, marble mantle, overmantel mirror, or frame, with two different designs, and paneling above with a central motif, a narrow panel to the left and the start of another molded frame with a diaper floral pattern above, and a plain dado level below. There is a scale below and the publisher's address.
Overdoor
, ca. 1825
Block printed on handmade paper

Horizontal rectangle for overdoor or fireboard. Still-life with rooster, vase of roses, loaf of bread, cheese, salt, wine bottle and bunch of turnips. Printed in colors on a blue ground.
Three Seating Designs
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789, 1849–66
Etching on paper
Print

Three upholstered stools or bidets designs with carved frames featuring laurel leaf moldings, cartouches, scrolling acanthus leaves, and festoons of flowers. The plate is signed with the printmaker, publisher, and original designer, and numbered.
Discipline in the Olden Time
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1878
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Short story from "Archibald the Cat, and Other Sea Yarns," about a sailor retelling memories of him and old friend.
glass
, 1820–30
Glass

Medium Heavy glass. Plain tumbler shape with straight-flaring sides. Lower side divided into two nearly equal bands, the lower cut to form a polygonal based of thirteen sides, the upper of shallow diamond cutting with flattened tops. Above a double incised ring is a band of short vertical blazes. Upper two-fifths of tumbler is plain. Base is heavy, and underside has a shallow circular depression.
Study of a Tiger
, ca. 1815
Charcoal on paper
Drawing

Standing tiger, facing left.
Design for Carriage Understructure
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780
Pen and black ink, brush and wash, graphite on white laid paper
Drawing

Profile of the beam is shown beside the elevation of the understructure which is decorated with a beaded oval at center within a shield, garlands at top and bottom, volutes at either side. At top, scale: 2 pied. Framing lines.
Ribbon samples
Herman A. Elsberg, American, 1869–1938, 1919
silk, metallic thread Technique: plain compound satin with supplementary weft

Samples of a wide ribbon with a satin ground in solid color with a design of bird wings in supplementary gold weft.
Plate Illustrating Standard Assembly (“Montage ‘Standard’")
Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942, October 1920
Pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper
Drawing

Design for a mass-operational house by Guimard, detailing the construction of support columns.
Monkey Playing a Violin
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721, ca. 1710–1720
Red chalk on cream laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink with gray wash.
Drawing

Monkey wearing a feathered cap stands on one foot facing right and plays a violin. Verso: rendering of an 18th-century Italian vase with a mask.
Le Bouffon
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721, 1723-1735
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Scene of a couple in a landscape. The woman sits against a tree, watching a man who is standing and holding a mask. The landscape is framed by ornamental garlands, tendrils, and scrolls of acanthus leaves. The plate is signed.
Femme de MATSMEY a la terre d’Ieço
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721, 1731
Etching on laid paper
Print

From a series of twelve prints, a Chinese woman seated in a landscape with a bow and quiver on the ground. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Figure Study for Diana and Her Attendants among the Constellations
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1894
Graphite and chalk on paper, laid down on board
Drawing

Center, half-length male figure with arms raised, gesturing towards upper left corner. Additional studies of hands and arms, left and right.
Side Chair, House of Hector Guimard, Paris, France
Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942, after 1909
Photograph
Photograph

A photograph of a chair designed by Hector Guimard, shown in profile. The sides of the chair slope down to attach to the seat. A glass door with a curtain behind it appears in the background.
Footed dish
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933, ca. 1900
Favrile glass

Pale gold metallic luster on exterior of transparent glass, forming band of spectral colors around inner portion of broad, flat rim; relief band on lower exterior of bowl consisting of two rows each containing twelve round designs on blister-like background; low foot.
Cartoon for cotton printing: Les Fables de La Fontaine
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France, 1810-1820
Black chalk and white heightening on cream-colored paper
Drawing

The design comprises four scenes taken from Les Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, first published in 1668: upper left, The Oak and the Reed (BookI, No. 22); supper right, The Elephant and the Lion (Book VI, No. 1); lower left: The Rat and the Elephant (Book VIII, No. 15); and lower right, The Dairy-Maid and the Pot of Milk (Book VII, No. 10).
Les Quatre Saisons
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815, late 18th century
cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave
Panel

Long panel of rural scenes indicative of the four seasons of the year (skating, maypole, fishing, harvesting) in red on white. Panel bound with woven tape on both sides. Quilted.
A.S.M. Da Isabel 2a La Espana Industrial 1860
, ca. 1860
cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave
Bedcover

Printed in brown, black, blue and two purples. Central repeating medallion of Queen Regent Isabel II with her husband, Francis of Spain, and son, Alfonso XII, are ringed with flowers and smaller portraits of men, probably important personages from the House of Bourbon, running down both edges.
The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt
Albrecht Altdorfer, German, ca. 1480–1538, 1520
Woodcut on off-white laid paper
Print

Vertical rectangle. Interior of baptistery, with a large fountain in the foreground. Angels at the fountain. A pilgrim at left.
Fringe
, 16th century
silk Technique: woven

Red fringe with an ornamental heading and red skirt threads.
Fragment
, 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace with needle inserts

Typical design of flowers and leaves. Insertion has been sewed to edging.
ornament, christmas tree
, 1850–99
Sugar

Shape of a pitcher with a hole in the middle. Red, yellow and green sugar dots.
Villa Sensale, Sorrento
William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900, 1858
Brush and grey wash, pen and ink, graphite on cream paper, laid down
Drawing

View toward Capri, with umbrella pines in the left foreground. The ground slopes gradually toward the water in the middle distance.
Collar
, 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace appliqué on machine-made net

Collar with bobbin lace appliqué for the border and conventionalized bell flowers motifs.
print
Daniel Rabel, 1578–1637, 1632
Etching on off white laid paper

Cartouche with a landscape showing a hunter and two dogs. Framing line.
Fragment
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Lille-style with heavy outlining thread)

Serpentine stem with leaves and flowers and Lille ground.
Monument to Franz I, Empe
Pompeo Marchesi, 1789 – 1856, 1846
Pen and black ink, watercolor, gold paint, over graphite Support: off-white wove paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Steps, on top of a platform and interrupted by lions crouching on pedestals, lead up to an ovoidal socle, the front of which shows a relief. Six allegorical women are seated on top on pedestals, between which steps rise. A fluted Doric column rises from the center carrying a statue of the emperor on a pedestal, showing the Austrian eagle.
Fragment
, 19th century
Linen Technique: bobbin lace (Lille-style with heavy outlining cord)

Fragment of Lille type bobbin lace.
Fragment
, 17th century
Medium; silk Technique: supplementary warp forming cut and uncut raised pile in plain weave foundation (velvet0

Tri-partite shapes wihin diamond grid.
Wood engraving. Vignette.
, 1800–1830
Engraving and etching.

A wreath.
Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on tracing paper
Drawing

Sketch of a woman's face, looking up to the left.
Cuffs
, 1800–1850
linen Technique: appliqué of bobbin lace on machine-made net

Cuffs made of bobbin lace applied to machine-made net in a pattern of flowers and leaves.
Sketch of Wild Plants
Walter Clark, American, 1848–1917, 1884
Graphite on paper
Album page

Some high plants rising over lower ones. Broad margin at right.
Censer
, 1730–60
Pen and brown ink, brown wash over, black chalk Support: to be checked
Drawing

Vertical format. A nail is shown in the center above to which the chains are fastened with their upper part, with the cover hanging at left. The ornamentation consists of scrolls of various kinds and vegetable motifs. Reverse, in opposite direction, a rough black chalk shetch for an escutcheon. (RB'45)???
Garment for religious statue
, 18th century
silk, metallic yarns Technique: satin weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocaded)

Small tunic of yellow silk satin brocaded in silver metallic threads and polychrome silks. Neck, sleeve and hem edges trimmed with narrow silver ribbon. Open down sides and tied with strips of white silk.
Tile
, 18th century
Earthenware

Dog. Corners decorated with scrolls. Edges have been glazed and decorated with scrolls, but glazing remains only on bottom and side edges.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: supplementary warp forming raised pile in plain weave foundation (velvet), then embossed.

Worn red plain velvet stamped (embossed) with pattern of broken scrolls and leaf motifs.
Band
, late 16th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (continuous braid-like)

Three and a half repeats of geometric design in bobbin technique. No mesh.
Design for a Royal Palace
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746-1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Perspective of the elevation on the landing floor of the main stairway
Bookmark
, 19th century
silk, paper, wool Technique: compound weave (ribbon) and wool embroidery on punched paper

Bookmark of pink and white brocaded ribbon is mounted with an embroidered card worked in wool thread. Design of a cross with flower wreaths and the legend: "Hope On." Tan, green and pale pink.
Fragment
, 16th century
silk Technique:cut loops of supplementary warp in a 3Z1 twill foundation (velvet)

Incomplete large scale ogival design . Worn, faded.
Melbourne
Gildea & Walker, active 1881 – 1885, ca. 1881-1885
Glazed earthenware with transfer-printed decoration
Plate

Circular form, the white crackled ground with brown Japanese-inspired transfer-printed decoration, the top section showing birds in flight over a body of water, shoreline with tree and flowering plants in foreground, the lower section composed of differently shaped panels of motifs including night sky, flowers, and geometric or arabesque patterns.
Sidewall
, 1880–1900
Machine-printed on ingrain paper

Stylized chintz-type overall floral design. Printed in two colors. The background is printed deep red with the floral motif being the unprinted red ingrain paper. Each motif is outlined with a fine black line.
Album of Trophy and Gold Box Designs
Louis Denis Fossier, French, 1744 – 1781, ca. 1765
Album

Album of ornament and prints after designs by Fossier including a series of trophies and a plate with designs for gold boxes and cane handles.
Bougeoir Mouchette et Porte Mouchette, Plateau avec bougeoir et paire de mouchettes, (1730-1735), 6th Plate
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1740
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

1921-6-212-26-a: Covered tureen, knob on lid in shape of a large ar...;     1921-6-212-26-b: Splayed candleholder, spiraling arms decorated wit...
No. 107
Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917, 1868
Mouth-blown crystal, facet-cut and polished
Rhine wine glass

Mouth-blown crystal, elaborately facet-cut and polished
Sampler
Mary Freeman, English, 1753
silk, wool Technique:embroidered in cross stitch and flame stitch on plain weave foundation

Very finely worked in colored silk on a fine wool ground. Running vine border, bargello panels, and a verse, "Youth and judgement."
Textile
, late 18th century
cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave Label: block printed cotton plain weave

Half drop repeat of massed flowers and leaves. Black, red, blue and yellow.
Fragment
, ca. 600
wool Technique: discontinuous and interlocked warps and wefts

Red ground with geometric design in blue, black, white, yellow and tan.
Sketchbook Page: Seated Figure
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, 1877–78
Graphite on blue-grey laid paper
Sketchbook folio

Sketch of a young man seated on a stool.
Textile
, ca. 1775
silk Technique: compound silk with supplementary weft

Pale mauve ribbed silk with bright polychrome flowers and twigs in loose continuous serpentine over broad stripe made up of white cross-hatched serpentine on band of white zigzags. Fine floral, leaf and other details in white weft floats.
Border
, early 18th century
Technique: needle lace

Needle lace edge, floral pattern; early 18th century Alencon
Woolworth Building, New York
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926, 1916
Etching in black ink on paper
Print

The Woolworth Building is shown at left, reaching almost the upper limits of the plate. The Singer Building is seen just beyond it.
Panels
, mid-19th century
linen, wool, silk Technique: embroidery using counted stitches on plain weave

Two needlepoint panels, each with the same pattern, comprised of a vertical arrangement of semi-naturalistic flowers and leaves in multi-colored wool on a beige silk background. Plain rust-brown band on right and plain tan band on left.
Ceiling paper
Janeway & Co. Inc., New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1848 - 1914, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

Floral and foliate scrolls with interspersed fleurons. Cream ground. Printed in light green, pink, gold mica and white mica. (Gold mica has green spots.)
Bat Motif
, mid 18th - early 19th century
Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire)
Katagami

Amongst the vertical stripes lay three bats decorated in various nature motifs. Waves, bamboo, maple leaves, and multiple blossoms give life to the lucky silhouettes. In Japan, bats symbolize luck.
Study of landscape, Ostia, Italy
William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900, 1857
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of a landscape with a building in the center.
Seconds Voyageurs Aeriens ou Experience de Mm. Charles et Robert
, ca. 1783
Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper
Print

A small gathering watches from the gardens of the Tuileries Palace the ascent of two men in a balloon. Below, lengthy description in French and German, and publisher's address. At top: the title (in reverse).
Sidewall - sample
Wallace Wall-Paper Co., Cortland, New York, 1906–08
Machine-printed on paper

Stylized floral and foliate design, possibly based on American Indian motifs. Zig-zag design connects flower motifs. Printed in red, green and blue on off-white ground.
study of a costumed figure
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923, ca. 1890
black crayon on white chalk, on gray paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. The figure, dressed in monk's garments, faces the viewer, with head turned to the left.
Matchsafe with image of a Motor Car
, ca. 1902
silver
matchsafe

Oblong, curved corners, featuring raised decoration of male in suit and cap driving motor car with spoked wheels down country road, grassy hill, wooden fence and tree in background, as well as patch of grass in foreground. Some clouds evident on lid. Reverse features inscription WH, Nov.22, 1902. Lid hinged on side. Striker in recessed groove on bottom.
Seated Winged Female
William B. Kerr & Company, Newark, New Jersey, 1855 - 1927, ca. 1900
Silver
Matchsafe

Oblong, with rounded corners and sides, featuring raised decoration of seated, nude, winged female with outstretched arms that rest upon oversized, stylized lily flowers. Two more oversized flowers are above her head on lid, large, stem-like swirls a part of background. Reverse features similar flowers on lid and similar stem-like decoration on body, framing monogramed central reserve, inscribed D.B.G. Hinge on side. Striker recessed in small groove on bottom.
Ceiling paper
Keystone Wall-Paper Company, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

Loosely formed pattern of acanthus scrolls in various sizes, joined by floral sprigs. All of the leaf forms are outlined.. Printed in green, tan, and white mica on off-white ground.
Woodland Snow Interior with Stream
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905, ca. 1870
Graphite, brush and white gouache on blue-gray paper, laid down
Album page

Woodland scene in snow divided into three parts with trees left and right and clump in middle.  In between is stream going from the distance on the right toward foreground, around central area with tress into distance on the left.
Tile
, 16th century
Lead-glazed earthenware

Within an arched niche are St. Martin and the Beggar. At base are strapwork, pendants, masks, grotesques, and seven figures symbolizing the three ecclesiastical and four cardinal virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity; Temperance, Prudence, Justice, and Fortitude. All decorations in relief.
Dress fabric
, 19th century
silk Technique: Jacquard woven, predominantly warp-faced plain weave (white) with discontinuous supplementary wefts (multicolor) floating from face to face.

Pattern of offset rows of polychrome flowers on an ivory ground. Rows of flowers facing alternately left and right. Warp face plain weave foundation with discontinuous supplementary weft floating alternately from face to face.
Front Elevation of Chapel, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
Ernest Flagg, American, 1857–1947, 1903
Brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper
Drawing

Front elevation of a monumental building surmounted by a tall dome.
Design for a Teapot
Noritake, Japan and New York, New York, USA, 1880–1910
Brush and gold gouache, watercolor, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Design for a teapot covered in gold with oval decoration on body of cropped roses (flowers). In graphite, several tableware designs with numbers and Japanese characters.
Sidewall
Cresswell & Washburn Ltd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 - 1900, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper

Foliate medallion on stripe. Printed in red, black and white on red ground.
A Tomb Monument (Incomplete Sketch)
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1692–99
Pencil, pen and brown ink with ink wash
Album page

Vertical rectangle. A tomb monument within a niche consisting of a bust on a high socle flanked by putti holding up draperies. Below, the sarcophagus at the base of which sits an eagle. 

One sheet of paper drawn on recto and verso, mounted onto an album page with window cutout to see verso.
Falus coin
, 19th century
Cast copper

Irregular edge. Six pointed star with raised dot at center. Reverse: Arabic.
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Marrons (Chestnuts) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, 1819–20
Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper
Drawing

Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. A figure of a woman holding a chestnut roaster stands before a large fireplance in a chestnut shop. Beside her to the right, a little girl protects a young boy from reaching into the fire. Another woman at left of center foreground is on her knees sorting chestnuts. To her left in middleground a man is leaving the shop with an armful of chestnut branches.
Textile
, 1870–1910
cotton, glazed technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave

Three columns of ferns and branches in three shades of green and blue on a machine ground of pink stippled vertical stripes.
Clarke's Relief Globe
J.M. Attwood, 1849
Hand-colored etching
Print

Presented as a globe on a stand, the surface arranged in concentric rings, with radiating divisions.
Miser's purse
, early 19th century
silk, metal Technique: crocheted

Crocheted black silk; embroidered areas of green and yellow silk with stylized flowers of cut steel beads.  More beads are used in triangular pattern.  Two steel rings control side closing; steel bead tassels at one end, steel bead fringe at the other.
Frieze
S.A. Maxwell & Co., 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper

Scrolls and floral motifs on background of all-over mottled effect. Recommended for kitchens and children's rooms as the surface design hid fingermarks and dirt. Borders printed two across the width.
Quand on n'a pas de memoire, il faur avoir des jambes! Plate 2 from "Inconvénient"
Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826, ca. 1825
Lithograph, brush and watercolor on paper
Print

Men carrying a bird in a cage, an umbrella, and luggage has missed the coach, beyond. A woman, left, and five dogs. Title and artists' names below.
Four of Spades from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France, 1858
Lithograph on glazed paper
Playing Card

Four of Spades from Set of "Jeu Imperial-Second Empire-Napoleon III" Playing Cards.
Cap
, 800–1100
wool Technique: tapestry woven, single interlock; OUTSIDE FABRIC: tapestry: interlocked; INSIDE FABRIC: single-weft double cloth (warp-faced plain weave).

Two fabrics sewn together (one on the outside, one on the inside - each a loomed width) to form a circular band. The fabric on the outside is tapestry-woven band with four panels, each showing a full-face standing figure wearing a headdress on a red, green or black background. The drawing is in the Tiahuanaco style but lacks the expected precision. The fabric on the inside is a heavy single weft double-cloth patterned by brown and ivory panels of checkerboard.