biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Title Page
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page and designs for flowers with their leaves, numbered with a legend below: rose with a hundred leaves, white rose. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Elevation et Coupe d'une niche avec figures
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Elevation and cross section of a niche with a classicizing female figure set within. Above the niche is a relief of a reclined, draped woman with a book and two small children. The plate is signed.
spoon
, mid-19th century
silver

Pointed oval bowl, the straight stem with acanthus leaf join at the bowl, the terminal with rocaille surrounded oval cartouche below the circular crusher.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: 4 and 1 harness satin damask

Diagonally slanting floral scrolls and tiny sea creatures in blue and white.
Two Designs for Statues: Putto with Cock, Friendship and Fidelity
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828, mid- 19th century
Pen and ink, graphite on paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Two designs for groups of statues or decorative elements. Figures of Friendship and Fidelity at center, above in a larger scale and in a smaller scale below. Two standing women shown from the front embrace each other. Beside the figure of Friendship at left grows a little tree, and beside the figure of Fidelity at right is a small dog. Both designs are squared and the lines numbered up to 8 and 11, respectively. At left, a putto stands with his right foot upon a blossom. He is shown in profile turned toward the right and carries a rooster with both hands. At right, two squared designs of the same motif symmetrically turned toward left. It is in a greater scale above and in a smaller scale below. Verso: three graphite sketches for candelbra.
Pied de table pour entre-croisées
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for an entryway table raised on a single leg. The table is decorated with ornament motifs including ribbon twist, lamb tongue, scrolls, acanthus leaves, and bound leaf garland. The table is topped with an urn. The plate is signed.
Three Putti
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1775–84
Etching on laid paper
Print

Three winged putti flying in the clouds together. The putto to the right is on top of the middle putto, with the third looking down on them from above. The plate is signed.
Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church
, late 18th century
Pen and bistre ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of Gothic church richly decorated. Stairs at right lead to a palace hall.
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci)
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, before 1805
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

The battle takes place at the edge of the sea, with many men involved.  The flying Minerva touches the sword of Ulysses and points at Jupiter seated upon clouds in the left upper corner.
Sketch of a Trees in a Landscape
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, 1760–1780
Brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Loose ink sketch showing a cow resting beneath a tree with a farm in the background.
Button
, ca. 1801–50
Steel

Flat, circular button with beveled edges; in the center, a facetted steel boss; surrounded by ivy leaves, in steel, against, a yellow ground.

Component -b is on card 2
Lit à la Duchesse
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1779-90
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a bed (side view) with a flat-roofed canopy (baldachin) projecting from the wall at the headboard. The bed curtains are tied back and trimmed with passementeries. There are feathers and acorn finials on the roof of the canopy. The bed linen is decorated with flowers. The bed posts have acorn finials and are decorated with diagonal fluting and rosettes. The bed skirt is striped and tied with tassels. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Musicien Chinois
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1738-1745
Etching on laid paper
Print

Plate printed with an older man dressed in Chinese costume (chinoiserie) sitting in a landscape and playing a stringed instrument. At his feet are other musical instruments. The plate is signed (twice; Boucher etched his signature in the ground at lower left) and numbered.
Côté du Lambris
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design and plan for paneling in an apartment. The plate is signed and numbered.
Developpement et Décoration de Lambris propre pour un Cabinet de Livres
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Design and plans for paneling for a private library. The panels above and between the books are decorated with ornament motifs including egg and dart, portrait medallions, rosettes, Ionic capitals, and reliefs inspired from antiquity. The plate is signed and numbered.
Journey by Sedan Chair
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829, 1828
Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. A man riding upon a horse which carries luggage beside him, leads the front mule carrying with another a sedan chair in which a woman and a man sit. A driver with a long stick walks at right. A dog accompanies the caravans. In the background are the sea, Vesuvius and other mountains. Framing lines. Signature in the lower right corner: "1828/Gatta f."
Textile
, 17th century
silk Technique: 4&1 satin damask

Bands of arrowhead motif framing leaf device. Both selvages present.
Design for an Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800–1825
Brush and white, yellow, and orange gouache on glazed tracing paper
Drawing

The repeat, of which somehwat more than two are shown, consists of an asymmetrical feather leaf over a border of a complicated design composed of blossom festoons, chains, a sprig and a link consisting of cones, palmettes and rosettes. Fringes and scallops are at the bottom.
Landscape with Mounted Figure, Colombia or Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1853 or 1857
Graphite on white wove paper
Drawing

Landscape study showing a mounted figure in an expansive, flat landscape. In foreground, at right, an individual with their back turned rides a horse or donkey. Flat terrain extends to the horizon, where trees create a jagged silhouette. Dynamic and billowing clouds mingle in the sky above.
Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motif
, 1825–50
Brush and gouache on brown oiled translucent paper
Drawing

Design for a woven shawl with paisley motif. The motif, also known as a Persian cone, is formed by red, yellow, pink, and green blossoms, green stems, and a few green leaves rising from a calyx. A flower bough is positioned to the right of the motif at the top.
Study of a Nude Figure Outdoors
Hendrik Goltzius, Netherlandish, 1558 – 1617, 1580–1620
Red crayon, brush and rose wash on paper
Drawing

Shown from the back, standing beside and leaning with the right hand upon the trunk of a tree. The left hand raises a bunch of flowers. A view of a lake is at left. Framing lines.
Schooner
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a schooner secured to the dock; View of the stern with sails tied to the mast and a cityscape in the background.
Ornamental Vase Design
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781, 1760-1764
Etching on laid paper
Print

Oval, lidded vase. The vase is decorated with coffers on the top and on the bottom of the belly; around the middle of the vase is adorned with rosettes set within coffers. The foot of the vase has bands of laurel leaves, and the vase is elevated on a low plinth. The plate is signed and numbered.
Lambris, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.
Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715, 1710
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Twenty-sixth plate from a series of prints depicting the ornament and interiors of the King's apartment at the Royal palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, part of the Cabinet du Roi (King's Cabinet) series published by the Imprimerie Royale. The plate illustrates six panels of varying sizes, both horizontal and vertical and two running pattern borders from the Grand Apartment of the Tuileries Palace. The panels feature grotesque motifs, heraldic devices, fleurs-de-lys, crowns, masks, shells, cartouches, herms, sphynxes, animals, flowers, garlands, acanthus leaf scrolls, foliage, and a globe. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Designs for Beds in the Style of Antiquity
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a bed in the style of antiquity decorated with ornament motifs including branches, drapery, grotesques, and rosettes. The plate is signed and numbered.
Virgin with Christ Child and Saint Jerome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, ca. 1800
Graphite on paper
Drawing

At center, the Virgin holds the Christ Child. Below, Saint Jerome and the lion.
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
, 1780–1790
Pricked, traced, pen and ink, brush and gouache, white on paper
Drawing

Unfinished design for the left bottom corner of a man's waistcoat. Vegetable fan motifs under the pocket and in the center rof pocket. Leave and plants alternate along the outer edge.
Developpement de deux Entablements Architrave Dorique avec Corniche à l'usage des Portes et Fenêtres
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Façade and profiles of two entablatures in the style of the Doric order. The plate is signed and numbered.
Designs for Firearms Ornament
Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776, 1744
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Designs for firearms ornament and components, featuring cartouches, trophies, animals, instruments, birds, dragons, fruit, flowers, scrolls, fronds, leaves and shells. The plate is signed and dated.
decorative door nail
, 17th century
Wrought iron

Square type, pierced and embossed with wrought lines. Quadrant leaf design based on old examples, with circular piercing between leaves. Faceted square nail head on square shank.
Design for a Vertical Panel of Ornament
Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on white laid paper
Print

Sheet of vertical arabesque design featuring ancient-inspired ornament motifs including a fountain, censers, mascaron, scrolls, rinceaux, garland, putti, anguipeds, and dolphins.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: chain stitch embroidery on plain weave (possibly)

Trimming fragment in a design of tulips and five-petal flowers with leaves worked in chain stitch in red, yellow, white and blue on a green ground. Narrow lace edging on both sides in pink and yellow.
Brisé fan
, late 19th century
Carved ivory sticks

Brisé fan of plain ivory sticks except for the right guard which is carved with four chamois in high relief in a rocky and wooded setting.
Cartels
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Four frame designs. The frame at top left is rectangular with a bow-shaped bottom, and has crossed laurel leaves around it. The frame at top right is square with a bow-shaped bottom, a shallow lidded vase at top, and crosse branches of leaves around it. The frame at lower left is in the shape of a cartouche and has pearl and floral ornamentation, and branches of leaves behind it. The frame at bottom right has corresponding scrolls at top, between which is a bunch of grapes. The plate is signed and numbered.
Sidewall
, 1835–45
Block-printed paper, flocked, glazed

Vertical rectangle. Drop-repeating design of cartouches with yellow field enclosing, alternately, figure of a woman on a swing and figure of a man with a pole-axe. Cartouche enclosed with scrolls and surrounded by festoons of beading and drapery. Border has scrolled medallions outlined in green and yellow, against red flock field.
Two Standing Angels Holding Wreath
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1810–20
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk on white laid paper
Sketchbook folio

At center wreath with fruit surrounds circular figurative composition. Wreath held up by pair of standing angels flanking it and two seated putti below supporting it. Composition seems to be part of frieze.
Puracé, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 6, 1853
Graphite and white gouache on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the town in Colombia known as Puracé, and the deeply cut valley atop which it is situated. In the foreground at lower center, a rocky pinnacle is shown covered in vegetation. It rises from near the valley floor, where a river visibly winds through the rugged terrain. The valley walls at left and right are extremely steep and create several "V" formations in the middle distance at left. At center, an area with lots of exposed rock is highlighted in white gouache. Beside this area right, several buildings in the town of Puracé are visible on flat terrain atop the valley rim, which extends to the right. In the background at center left, a large, bulging mountain with two sharp summits is visible (this is not the volcano Puracé, which is out of view at right). Other rolling, mountainous terrain is shown in the background at right.
Study of Hands
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Black crayon, pastel, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Top: a right foot shown from above; a right and left hand carrying a bowl. Center: two arms stretched toward right. Bottom: a left hand shown foreshrotened from the wrist, a right arm with the hand lying at the breast.
Design for a Woven Fabric
, 1825–1850
Brush and gouache on oily tracing paper
Drawing

Big-sized flower boughs staggered and of different designs in alternating horizontal rows are stuck into a rising undulated flower stem, from which boughs with leaves and blossoms grow into the remaining free space. White stripes laterally.
The Adoration of the Kings
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770, 1750–1760
Etching on laid paper
Print

First state, before the number
Frame with Dragons
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1740–68
Etching and engraving on paper
Bound print

Upright frame design for a mirror or painting, circular form, topped with two dragons surrounded by scrollwork. Vegetal decoration complete the ornamental scheme.
Woman with a Turban
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, ca. 1760–1770
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

The woman faces left, her hair up in a turban.
Photographs in a brown paper envelope (3)
Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association, ca. 1900

Photograph of Miss Sybil Carter (1943-44-14-a), an Episcopalian missionary who taught lace making to American Indian women starting in the late nineteenth century. Photograph of six lacemakers with a large lace table cover (1943-44-14-b). Photograph of lacemakers with their children in front of the mission house (1943-44-14-c).
Plate from Compertimenta Pictoriis Flosculis Manubiis que Bellicis Variegata
Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572, 1567
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Vertical rectangle showing a strapwork escutcheon. At center, a military trophy flanked by a semi-nude man and woman with arms. At top, a cartouche with the initials "I.F." and another at bottom with "H. COCK EXCVD / 1567".
Copies of Romanesque Letters and Motifs for a Woven Fabric
, 1825–1850
Brush and lateritious, purple, blue, and light green gouache on oily tracing paper
Drawing

Top left, center: two quatrefoils and lozenge motifs. Top right: Romanesque letter "F". Left center: Romanesque letter "B". Center, in opposite direction: a shield in the center of two intertwined quatrefoils. Bottom left: four rows of perspectively shown coffers with red points. Bottom right: Romanesque letter "O".
Embroidered frontal
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Somewhat more than the left half is shown. The central panel is framed by wide borders, with vine festoons above, sheaves rising from a calix at left, scrolls springing from calixes below. In the center is a pavilion of a kind, with the Host above the chalice, in a glory. Laterally is a rinceau palmette.
Design for an Andiron
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevation of an andiron decorated with ornament motifs including urns, bouquets with flowers, gadrooning, lancet leaf, sphynxes, trophy, bead course, and an eagle at center with a wreath in its beak and lightening bolts at its feet. The plate is signed and numbered.
Study for woman, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1895–1898
Black pastel crayon on tracing paper mounted to board
Drawing

Sketch of a female figure; Detail of drapery gathering around her sholders and knees. Shown without head, right hand and feet. The left wrist is covered by the cloth.
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 1071 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, ca. 1785
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

A bunch of flowers on leaf boughs beneath the pocket. Two bunches of flowers support a festoon with fruits and moss. Garland along the outer edge.
Timepiece
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1790–1820
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, on off-white laid paper
Drawing

The overall shape of the clock mimics that of a Greek temple. The dial plate is at the bottom, as a pedestal supporting a circular temple-like structure consisting of a dado and pairs of Doric columns below an entablature and a dome, with a statue standing in the center.
Banana Plant
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, ca. 1885
Graphite, pastel on grey paper
Drawing

Stalk and leaves of a banana plant, center. Stalk, at right, with notes on colors.
Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February 1868
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Mixed studies near Mt. Hor in present-day Jordan, showing a horse, a tree, and a figure. At lower center, a Bedouin guide is shown from behind. At center left, a sketch of two trees is visible. A horse adorned in an ornamented saddle and yoke is included at upper right, oppositely oriented.

Verso: Landscape and architectural study showing a view of the rugged canyon landscape of the Wadi Musa near Petra, with a sketch of three framed doorways carved into a stone cliffside.
Seated Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903, ca. 1890
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Horizontally rectangular plate-mark enclosing raised rectangle. Seated nude female figure turned to right, resting head against raised right hand.
Face du costé de la cour du Chasteau de Pontz en Champagne
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Architectural exterior elevation with part sectional views of the interiors of the castle de Pontz. The façade features a portico arched entrance with columns and a balustrade above with statues, cartouches, windows, finials, pediments, blind windows or panels, and balustrades along the roof. A scale below. The plate is titled and signed.
Design for the Embroidery of Wearing Apparel of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780–1790
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Two crossing boughs at left and a bough of a tree, at right, in the top row. Two boughs in the bottom row are disposed in slightly oblique vertical rows. Three small-scale motifs form an oblique row in the interval, each of them consisting of a shell among plants and water.
Robert L. Stuart Seated
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, April 9, 1881
Graphite on brown wove paper
Drawing

Three-quarter length seated male figure turned toward left, facing frontally, wearing glasses. More shading on face, with body outlined.
Plan et Elevation d'un Retables d'autel en voußure, Ornée d'une Console [et] Plan et Elevation d'un Retable d'autel avec une Porte de Sacristie
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1774
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Split elevation and plan for an altarpiece. The design on the left is vaulted and features ornament motifs including a portrait medallion and spray of leaves, rosettes, bound leaf, a flaming urn, and lamb tongue. The design on the right is place near a sacristy door and features ornament motifs including an angel, egg and dart, scroll, bound reed, and scrolling acanthus leaf around a rosette. The plate is signed.
Mountains in Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1884–1885
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain range in Mexico. Shown in the background across a flat middle distance, one ridge, at right, descends toward the center, while another, taller ridge is visible behind it. This ridge includes several sharp, craggy peaks.
Fragments
, 15th century
silk, metallic Technique: supplementary warp forming pile with continuous supplementary wefts in plain weave foundation

Large scale pattern of fruit and curving stem.
Stage Design, Interior of Kitchen
Luigi Ricci, Italian, 1823 - 1896, ca. 1860
Graphite, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of kitchen with stairs leading upward.
Miser's purse
, early–mid-19th century
cotton, steel rings and ornaments Technique: knitted

Knitted miser's purse in green, pink, brown and white, with steel rings and bell-shaped ornaments at each end.
Designs for a Necklace and Three Chains
, late 18th century
Pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on light green paper
Drawing

Jewelry designs for a necklace and three chains, arranged on a diagonal vertically, one above the other. At top, a piece of a chain, interlaced ribbons with disks and square diamonds; then, part of the right half and the pendant of the necklace. The chain and the frame of the drop is composed of a lace ribbon, the oval parts of which are connected by a rosette. The pendant is supported by a knot. Then, two pieces of chains. One with interlaced scrolls of ribbons with blossoms; the other composed of pieces of lace ribbon, connected by blossoms. Bevelled corners.
Design for Ceiling Ornament
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1740–68
Etching and engraving on paper
Bound print

Rocaille design for two quarters with alternate suggestions divided by a central rosette.
Fragment, frame (for tapestry)
, mid-18th century
beechwood, carved, painted, gilded

Traces of gilding, green and cream paint
Two Arabesque Panel Designs
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1768–75
Etching on paper
Print

Two vertical arabesque panel designs printed on two separate plates featuring vases, incense burners, plinths, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), female figures, birds, mascarons (masks), festoons of leaves, rosettes, and fleurons. The plates are numbered.
Figure
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Partial sketch of a figure's head.
Plate 4, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663, after 1662
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Horizontal rectangle showing three escutcheon designs, each with interlacing leaves and opposing fantastic figures.
Design for an Andiron
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790, ca. 1780
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Sixth plate from a series of six designs for andirons. The andiron features a flaming fluted torch with griffins on either side, decorated with acanthus leaf scrolls, rosettes, garlands of leaves, and fluted legs. The plate is numbered, lettered, and signed.