biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Dark Harbour, Grand Manan Island, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1851
Graphite on tan wove paper
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Dark Harbour on the western coast of Grand Manan Island in Canada. In the foreground, a log cabin is prominently featured at left and viewed from the rear, while its yard and fence extend across the composition to the right. Stretching across the middle distance is a seawall with a beach, which sever the ocean from the calm harbor waters, which inhabit most of the middle distance at center and right. In the distance at right, a steep and heavily wooded cliffside ascends to a flat top. In the background along the horizon, mountains and islands along the coast of mainland Canada are faintly visible.
Plate
, ca. 1770
Gilded tin-glazed earthenware

Plate with floral bouquets on marly and gilded rim. At center, ruins in a landscape.
Design for a Chinoiserie Wallpaper
, ca. 1925
Graphite, brush and gouache on heavy paper
Drawing

Small islands with rustic Chinese pavilions and portion of an arching bridge, with overlays of white parallel horizontal lines complete the design.
Cartouche Topped by Open Crown
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1738
Etching and engraving on paper
Bound print

Blank symmetrical rocaille cartouche topped by an open crown. Armorial trophies at left and right.
Design for an entrance wall to a music or dance hall
, 1830
Ben and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Drawing

Five bays with a door opening with curtains in the center flanked by framed panels with dancers over sofas. The overdoors show Arion at left and a maenad at right. The decoration of the ceiling cove refers to Music and Poetry. Homer, Apollo, and a poet are the subjects of the painting in the frieze.
The Walking Wounded
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1861–62
Pen and brown ink, graphite on light-brown wove paper
Drawing

Horizontal loosely drawn sketch of four soldiers: three holding muskets upright and one, at left with a beard and moustache, holding his rifle at his side. The soldier at right is smaller than the others and looks right. The middle soldier looks left.
Military Ornament Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731, 1716
Etching on laid paper
Print

Ornament design featuring military motifs. In the center, a standing woman wearing armor and holding a spear and shield on a pedestal under a canopy supported by herms, surrounded by shields, flaming torches, mythological creatures, sphynx, dragons, putti, banners, spears, flags, quivers of arrows, helmets, shields on a base. The plate is signed.
Panneaux de Lambris aux côtés d'une porte à placard
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1774
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Elevation of an interior with paneling and motifs featuring crossed cornucopia,a lyre, branches, acanthus leaf, lamb tongue, egg and dart. The plate is signed.
Main Light, Sandy Hook, and Keepers' Hen Coop, Illustrations for Scribner's Monthly (XVIII, No. 5, September 1879, cover)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, September 1879
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Article clipping from Scribner's Monthly on the history on Sandy Hook. Illustration of lighthouse and chicken coop with woman feeding the chickens.
Inscription
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1800
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

A drapery is intended to serve as a tablet. It is framed by two crossed branches which have on either side two crossed weapons. On top is a wreath with, inside, an escutcheon with a prelate's hat. Usual background.
Two Frame or Cartouche Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two designs for frames or framing devices featuring foliate branches, festoons of flowers, basket of flowers, scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux), fruit, and a ribbon and rosette running pattern. The plate is numbered and signed.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, metallic Technique: plain weave patterned by supplementary warp floats and supplementary weft floats

Alternating red and green stripes .
Textile
Séguin et Cie, ca. 1805
silk, metal-wrapped silk threads, smooth and frisé Technique: 8-harness satin patterned with continuous and discontinuous supplementary wefts and supplementary binding warp

Border woven to match 1937-63-3. Neo-classical pattern of laurel wreath and acanthus leaves in the form of a lyre brocaded in gold thread on a bright blue satin ground with a monochrome figure of slender leaves; with wide and narrown gold bands top and bottom.
Athena, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)
Etienne Delaune, French, 1519 - 1583, ca. 1575
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Vertical oval in rectangle showing a grotesque designs on a black ground. At center, under a baldacchino, is standing the divinity Athena surrounded by scrolls, fantastic creatures, vases, and fruits.
Cover
Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association, ca. 1900
linen Technique: cutwork with needle lace fillings and hemstitching Label: linen embroidered with cutwork and needle lace fillings

Linen table cover with embroidery and cutwork squares filled with needle lace in the form of stylized birds. Edged with woven picots.
Title Plate
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1772-1777
Pen and red ink on cream laid paper
Drawing

At center, a cartouche surrounded by putti at left and right, each holding the support of a banner at top. The title of the series is printed on the cartouche between the putti. Above the escutcheon, a crown of laurel leaves. The plate is numbered but not signed.
Grille de Jardin
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a gate with a crowned coat of arms draped with garland. The plate is signed, but the numbering is not visible.
Detail of panel of Salon of Louis XIII
Frederick Marschall, ca. 1885
Brush and watercolor, tempera on heavy paper
Drawing

Section of rectangular panel. Left, carved sides. It contains painted decoration: urn divides composition. Left, reclining youth holding garland of flowers. Extreme left, sphinx.
Conquest of the Philippine Islands
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, ca. 1598
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes, over black chalk on laid paper
Drawing

Recto: A broad landscape with Philippine Islanders, shirtless, dressed in layered skirts and pointed hats, in the left foreground and at center. These Islanders shoot arrows towards Spanish troops, who approach, dressed in armor and carrying guns, from the right. In the background at right are five large Spanish ships, moored at sea. Small boats, sent from those ships, approach the bay.
Design for Magazine Cover
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, ca. 1900
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of a magazine cover with a seated female figure holding a cornucopia.
Design for the Letter U of a Pictoral Alphabet: Urania
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866, ca. 1830
Graphite, pen and bistre ink, brush and ink wash, with white heightening on cream paper
Drawing

Letter above, flanked by intertwining rinceau. A woman with attributes of astronomy is seen seated under the zodiac.
Botanical Sketches along the Río Magdalena, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 1853
Graphite on gray-green laid paper
Drawing

Botanical sketches showing five views of plants and the wooded landscape along the Magdalena River in Colombia. At center and upper center, two sketches of trees or branches with leaves are visible. On all sides, at left, right, and below, three drawings of the abundant vegetation along the banks of the river are included.
Pleated fan
, late 19th century
Painted silk leaf, mother-of-pearl sticks, silk tassel

Pleated fan painted with a bull fighting scene showing a man leaping over a bull on a pole. The reverse has a man and two women in conversation. Sticks are mother-of-pearl carved à jour. Paste head on pin. White cord and tassel.
Part of Sheet 5 of a Drawing Book, Masks and Part of a Trophy
Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804, ca. 1785
Black chalk on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. At left is part of a trophy banner, showing the letters "Q.R." In the center, above, is a mask of a Medusa. Below, two masks with the lower part of a medieval lance between then.
Ornamental Frame Design
, 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a frame with a cartouche at bottom with putti above; the frame is ornamented with motifs including floral garland, scrolls, shells, and leaves.
Cornice Design with Profile
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1785-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for the cornice of an apartment with, from left to right, ribbon twirl, leaf lamb tongue, bead and leaf course, spiraling acanthus leaf and bead ribbon, bead and lead course, and stylized acanthus leaf decoration. The profile of the cornice ornamentation is indicated at the top edge of the design motifs. The plate is signed and numbered.
Sidewall
, 1795–1800
Block-printed on handmade paper

Vertical rectangle of pieced fragments. Diagonally placed rows of elliptical bosses in simulated relief, with white outlines on one side and black on the other.
Panel
, 19th century
silk Technique: embroidered with chenille on satin

Large embroidery in an incomplete wooden frame. Design drawn directly onto the white satin and is partially worked in polychrome silk chenille. Pattern shows foliage, flowers and a central scene with a farm.
Plans, Elevations, and Sections for a Country House and Garden Architecture
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural print illustrating bridges and houses, with elevations, sections, and floor plan views. The plate is numbered and signed.
Console table
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Drawing

Slightly curved. Supported by two pillars with lion's feet, upon a base. Above shaped like an entablature, with two birds symmetrically beside a central motif, and rinceaux. Usual background.
A Painter in His Studio
, 1720–1750
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and bistre wash on paper, mounted
Drawing

A seated painter paints the portrait of a boy who is seated and holds a book at left. The head of an apprentice and a statue are shown in the right rear, a book case in the left rear.
Designs for Tapestry Chair Seats, Plate 1 from "Cahier de Cartouches et Ornemens de l'Oeuvre de Ranson"
Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, French, 1737–1831, 1778
Engraving on paper
Print

Rectangular and a rhomboid chair seats showing flowers in a cartouche framework.
Minerva and a winged god
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1813–18
Pen and brown ink, dark brown wash, over black chalk on white laid paper
Sketchbook folio

Minerva standing at left with winged male figure; four putti with two captives at center; satyr head at far right, and six sketched figures in distance.
Waistcoat
, ca. 1860
silk, cotton Technique: velvet, satin, embroidery

Brown velvet waistcoat with a cotton lining and silk backing. Lapels and collar in brown satin with black floral embroidery.
Fragment
, ca. 1700
silk, metallic thread Technique: brocaded satin

Satin damask silk weave in pink and silver with delicate scrolls and silver brocaded palmettes.
Winter, the Forge of the Vulcan, Spring, the Bath of Venus, Summer Feasts of Bacchus and Ceres
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Vulcan forging arrows which are collected by putti.  Venus standing in circular basin served by putti. One of putti points backward where warrior appears. Landscape with part of circular temple.
Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 3 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI
Etienne Claude Voysard, French, 1746 - 1812, 1778
Engraving on paper
Print

Falcons, a hunting horn and other implements of the chase and flower garlands, form a trophy. Below, engraver's and designer's names. From: "Suite de Trophées de chasse," suite VI, planche 2.
President Chester Alan Arthur, Study of Head
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, November 21, 1884
Graphite on buff wove paper Verso: Graphite, brown and white chalk
Drawing

Study of head facing right, with shoulders facing frontally. Color notations throughout.
Design for a Necklace and Brooch
, 1850–75
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Flower bouquets spring from scrolling branches. Pearls hang from chains below.
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
, 1775–1785
Brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Lower left section of a waistcoat. Below the pocket, rising from the border, large flower motifs. Outline of pocket, with no design indicated.
Design for an Andiron
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai, early 19th century
Brush and yellow, red, green, black watercolor, pen and black ink, on cream laid paper
Drawing

Horizontal design, two pilasters, center panel. Large pitcher at left, low bowl with flame at right. Front of pilasters decorated with two-handled pitchers. Elongated front panel shows two fantastic swans flanking a stylized pineapple surrounded by a leaf motif.
Designs for Two Vertical Panels
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1738
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Two designs for upright rocaille panels. Left panel: At bottom, a reclining figure (Victory) behind decorative scrollwork, surrounded by armorial trophies (helmet, banner, weapons). Above, at center, a large cartouche with a landscape scene depicting architectural ruins. An obelisk and trees are visible. Above the cartouche, at top: two winds, two flying putti, and fruits. Right panel: at bottom, an escutcheon with armorial trophies. Above, at center, a large cartouche with ornamental trophies extending to the top of the design.
Two Designs for Ecclesiastical Ironwork
Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771, ca. 1764
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Two designs for ecclesiastical ironwork ornamented with rococo motifs, acanthus leaves, garlands of flowers, c-scrolls, palmettes, fleurons and gadroon motifs with winged putti heads. The upper design is topped with a cross, and candles on either side of the arch, with a central cartouche with a portrait of a seated man. The lower design is topped with an ornamented cross, with smoking incense burners on either end. A triangle with Hebrew script surrounded by sun rays is in the center of the central arch, below the cross. The plate is numbered.
Design for an Inkstand
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844, late 18th century
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Base formed by fantastic fishes and a mask. Stand at the center with two birds. On either side a woman, the left holding a lyre, both sitting on the back of a headless sphinx.
Study for "Memory," Pittsburgh, PA
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, ca. 1895
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Draped female figure, seated with her head resting on her right arm.
Landscape Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February or March 1868
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape study showing three views of rocky cliffs and mountainsides in present-day Israel or Jordan. In upper portion, a rounded prominence is shown. In middle, a steep, bulging cliffside is visible. In lower portion, two large boulders overhang a sloping hillside, with mountains rising in the distance.

Verso: Landscape study showing two views of a mountainside. Above, the mountain's triangular ridge is shown, surmounted by boulders. At center, a detail of a rocky cliff face is visible.
Studies of Putti
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903, ca. 1890
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Three studies of standing figures for cherubs, with a fourth partial figure and study of head.
Apollo flays Marsyas
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1796–98
Pencil, pen and black ink, brush and watercolors on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Apollo kneels upon the satyr who lies against a tree. Caption: '7,' in a hexagon in black chalk. The hexagon is drawn into a pencil oblong.
Two Cartouche Designs
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692, ca. 1690
Etching on paper
Print

Two cartouche designs featuring the themes of warfare and victory. The upper cartouche is in the form of a large banner attached to a spear and held by a soldier on horseback in the middle of a battle scene with other soldiers, and arms and armor on the ground below. The lower circular cartouche is framed by two standing Roman soldiers, a trophy of arms, and a mascaron/ mask (wearing a turban with feathers), festoons of ribbons, and scrolling leaves. The plate is signed and numbered.
Box Designs
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Fourth plate from a series of designs for jewelry, boxes, snuffboxes, rings, seals, cane handles and other small luxury objects. The plate includes fourteen designs for boxes and their lids decorated with neoclassical motifs. The decoration includes repeating patterns, egg and beading, leaves, flowers, stars, scrolling rinceaux, scrolling acanthus leaves, fleurons, dots, ribbons, and stars. The plate is numbered.
Columns of the Parthenon, Athens
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 21, 1869
Oil and graphite on bright green paperboard
Drawing

Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view of three columns of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, seen from the north. The immediate foreground is unfinished and includes portions of large stone blocks. Behind them, three fluted, doric columns supporting a ruinous entablature taper slightly as they ascend. Vegetation and other detritus is visible on the surface of the stones. In the background, a rugged mountain range forms an undulating horizon beneath a blue and open sky.
Design for a Candlestick
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819, ca. 1800
Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on light blue paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze and white marble. Upon a half circular base with a black fluted band, decorated with three gold lion masks, stands a tripod. Around two of the legs are wound respectively a vine and a snake--around the third leg at the front is a crossed caduceus and a club. At the rim of the tripod are three seated female figures of allegories. Above their heads stands upon a capital a basket with flowers, out of which is springing a basin with ram heads on the rim, upon which three sockets spring on long shafts at their feet. Rinceaux beside it. Burning candles at top.
A Ride on an Ocean Steed
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1878
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Short story from "Archibald the Cat," about a sailor and a young passenger stranded at sea.
Handscreen leaf
, late 18th–early 19th century
Printed paper

Printed paper handscreen leaf (handle missing) with "Jeux" (games) spelled out in playing cherubs, with garlands, swags and other neoclassical ornament.
Fragment
, late 19th century
wool, cotton Technique: printed on plain weave

Cream coloured ground with broad vertical stripes of closely massed slender foliate design in browns and black, alternating with tiny rose buds in pink and blue.
Entablement avec Console
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for an entablature with fluting on the brackets and on the upper band. The plate is signed.
Kinchaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord
, ca. 1750
Tooled leather (purse); incised and inlaid copper alloy and brass (clasp); carved ivory and shibuichi (netsuke); silk (chord)

Rectangular purse of Cuir de Cordoue — Dutch leather tooled in a floral design, gilded and painted. Edges and seals bound with leather. Flap closing with a metal fastener of cooper alloy and brass, incised and inlaid flower design. Black silk chord. Kagami-buta netsuke, base ivory, plaque silver alloy with gold and copper relief inlay.
Button
, 19th century
steel

1931-59-302-a: circular, flat button; ornamented with four swirle...
Rocks in the Woods
Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915, August 18, 1876
Charcoal, black and white chalk on gray paper
Drawing

Horizontal view of woods showing several large rocks in the foreground and the lower parts of the trunks of trees in the background.
Ornamental Medallion Designs
P. J. Bertren, active 18th century, 1768
Etching on paper
Print

Two medallion designs, one above the other. The upper medallion is decorated with flowers, musical instruments, and laurel leaves. The lower medallion is decorated with a torch, quiver, flowers, laurel leaves, and a cartouche with an arrow through two burning hearts. The plate is signed and numbered.
Motif for Bank Note Design
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, ca. 1895
Pen and ink, brush and white, grey, and black oil paint on rough paper
Drawing

A nude woman writes in a book which a child holds, kneeling on the floor with two other children lying beside it. An eagle flies, at left, beside the woman.
Frame or Cartouche Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a cartouche or framing device featuring festoons of flowers, basket of flowers, ribbons, and scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux). The plate is numbered and signed.
Suite des détails du Pavillon de Bagatelle
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Architectural details for a garden pavilion with elevations and sectional views of columns, doors, entablatures, roundels, friezes, and sculptures including a sphinx and two female figures in classical robes with Empire style motifs and ornament.
Button
, 19th century
Brass, gold, plated

Flat button with ornament showing coat of arms on a shield; supporters, a lion and a fabulous beast; crown. Brass back and shank.

On card C
One of a Pair of Tea Caddies
Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728, 1716
silver
tea caddy

One of a pair of tea caddies, each a vertical rectangular form on small angular feet, with straight shoulder and cylindrical neck to fit cylindrical cover. Side panels of body are repoussé in 18th century style with fishing figures, birds, scrolls, urns, and cartouche. Cylindrical cover with birds and scrolls. Engraved elements on each caddy nearly identical, differing slightly in scale and composition within panels. Caddy panel with cartouche has arched foot bridge and scrolls at bottom, small group of houses and towers at upper center, and diaper pattern fence at upper right.
LE JEU DE LA CROSSE
Jacques Bacheley, French, 1712 – 1781, mid- 18th century
etching on paper
Print

Third plate from a series of four children's scenes, framed within decorative rococo cartouches, with verses lettered below. A group of boys play lacrosse in a landscape with a girl watching to the left. Children play jump rope in the background. A group of houses to the left and a bridge in the background to the right. The title is lettered below the cartouche and the plate is signed and numbered.
Sketch, Two Figures in Landscape with Architecture in Background
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Sketch, Two Figures in Landscape with Architecture in Background
Peacocks and Amorini
Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915, 1878
Block-printed paper, embossed and bronze gilded
Frieze

On beige ground facing peacocks with spread tails alternating with sickle-bearing genii on chariots. Design heavily embossed and bronze-gilded to imitate leather.
Fragments of an incomplete cartoon for cotton printing: La Course Anglaise
Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770, 1789
Pen and black ink, brush and grey wash on white paper.
Drawing

One of two fragments, parts of three large islands of a cartoon for printed fabric: Picnic scene with officer and two ladies seated at table before an arbor