biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Project for a Wall Decoration
, late 18th century
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Left half of a design shown. At bottom, a frieze with grotesques. Above, at left, a candelabrum motif supported by a griffin. At right, a roundel with a winged figure is below an entablature.
Design for a Pendant Trophy
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1772–77
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a chinoiserie pendant trophy, from a series of six prints. The trophy features a ribbon tied in a bow with flowers and sprigs, wrapped around arms and armour, including a feathered helmet, shield, sword, a bow and a quiver full of arrows. The plate is signed and numbered.
Button
, France
Brass, gold plated

Slightly convex button ornamented with initials "AL" and a crown. Brass back and shank.

On card E
Title Page
Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674, 1677-1703
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Ornamental vase with mythological and architectural motifs. The lid of the vase is decorated with an egg-and-dart pattern; it has a spherical finial with a cupid holding his bow seated on top. The center of the vase is adorned with festoons and a bas-relief of two putti crowning a bust of a young man with a laurel wreath. The bottom of the vase has festoons interspersed with Roman mascarons. The vase is supported by two griffins and is elevated upon a small circular socle. The plate is lettered and numbered.
Pleated fan
, ca. 1860
Painted paper leaf, carved ivory sticks

Fan with ivory sticks and paper leaf. Leaf painted on front and back with scenes of Chinese life. Faces of figures are painted on small bits of applied ivory. Garments of figures are made of silk applied to the paper leaf. The ivory sticks are lace-carved with flowers, figures, etc. Guards are carved in high relief.
Men and Women Unloading a Fishing Dory, Cullercoats, England
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1881–82
Graphite on tan wove paper, mounted
Drawing

Horizontal view of side of a boat drawn up on a beach with an indistinct number of men and women unloading it while another woman walks with a bucket of fish on her back; stern of another boat visible at left; small sketch of a boat with a sail, at bottom right.
A Peasant’s Dwelling in Woody Country
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, 1750–1770
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

A house and round stable with a straw roof are at right in the middle ground with sheep nearby. Cloudy sky.
One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration of a horizontal panel.
Francesco Bedeschini, Italian, 1675-1699
Pne, brush, sepia
Drawing

The drawing has two borderlines, the background bearing horizontal lines. Intended to be engraved
Design for a Sepulchral Monument of King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Drawing

The base has some steps, with small lateral parts in masonry. The structure has an oblong sockle and a rededing upper round tower-like part. At the front is a doorcase upon whose entablature lean two women - the left one is seen in front, the right in profile - beside an urn with a flame. They stand upon the sockle. Corresponding laterally are women standing beside a similar urn standing upon what seems to be a balustrade. Below the upper edge of the tower is a band with a triglyph frieze. On top is similar to 1938-88-1330.
Vanneaux et Sarcelles (Lapwings and Teal)
Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914, 1862
Etching in dark brown ink on white paper
Print

A group of marsh birds and ducks are seen in the water in the foreground; some flying near leafy overhanging branches. A wide expanse of marsh in the distance.
Design for an Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1805–1815
Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper
Drawing

Blossom rosettes are connected by diadems with drops and by chains from which tassels are suspended. A crown and a fan are suspended at the bottom of the rosettes; chain festoons connect the supports of the fans and the tassels. An undulated stripe is at the bottom.
Reiter Alpe from Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June–July 1868
Brush and oil paint, graphite on thin, off-white paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Reiter Alpe in Bavaria (present-day Germany) from the vicinity of the town of Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden. A group of trees is visible beside a fence in the foreground at lower right. Grassy, lush terrain fills a wide valley in the middle distance, hemmed-in by wooded mountainsides at left and right. Some houses are sprinkled throughout the landscape. In the background, prominently featured at center, the serrated peaks of Reiter Alpe catch the orange-pink light of the rising sun. Hazy, white clouds are visible in an otherwise blue sky above.
Tray
, 1800–1825
Enameled and gilt tôle

Rectangular, black ground, gilded foliate border. Center shoes fountain and bird.
Design for a Painted Wall
, ca. 1825
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Elevation of a room with overdoor tablets featuring classical figures. Painted onto the wall is a trompe-l'oeil view of a landscape through pillars. Below, a townscape. Portion of paper missing at lower right.
Design for a sedan chair
, ca. 1780
Black chalk, pen, ink, brush, and multiple watercolors on paper
Drawing

A simpler variation of 1900-1-11 with most of the decoration consisting of rows of nail heads. They form also the scroll in the panel beside the window; calyces hand from its end. The window has two parts.
Summer Afternoon
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1872
Brush and oil paint on canvas
Painting

Horizontal view of a young woman in white flounce dress standing in center; leaning against a hammock swung from supports beyond the right and left edges of picture; resting her arms on farther edges of hammock and looking down.  A fan hangs from a cord around her right wrist.
Wall with Two Trumeaux
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 18th century
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Design for interior in Rococo style featuring two trumeaux with ornamental frames intended for mirrors. Below the mirror at left, a console table. Flanking the trumeaux are large arched double windows. Scale at lower center.
Three tombs
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1796
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Upper row, left. The architectural setting is similar to 1938-88-1298, right row, above. The scheme of the monument is a variation of 1938-88-1298, left row, below. The pedestal has two offsets, with a festoon in the upper one as the only decoration. Above it sit two female allegories. On top of the sarcophagus is a pedestal. Upon it a figure, standing, carrying a medallion together with a putto standing beside her, at right. At left, another putto, kneeling. At right: the architectureal setting is the usual intercolumniation with the entablature. In the upper part is a drapery with in front a medallion with a bust portrait, surrounded by branches and supported by two flying putti. Below is a pedestal with a relief. Sitting upon it, beside an urn, are two femal allegories. Lower row, horizontally. The architectural setting is similar to 1938-88-1296, with a niche similar to 1938-88-1350. The lower part is a variation of the upper row, at left, with a somewhat richer decorated pedestal and a trophy of arms on top. The upper part is a variation of 1938-88-1299, above, at left. The standing figure on top, a woman carrying a medallion. The sarcophagus is tube-like.
Design for Dados
, 1725–50
Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash on paper
Drawing

Studies of wall friezes.
Medallion
, mid-19th century
plaster

profile of man w/ a beard
Upper Togue Pond, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 1, 1879
Graphite and oxidized white gouache on light green wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Upper Togue Pond near Mt. Katahdin in Maine, likely looking west from the pond's eastern shore, with Doubletop Mountain visible in the background at right. The foreground is comprised of the pond's surface, while its heavily wooded opposite shore stretches horizontally across the middle distance. Distant hills and mountains--such as the previously mentioned Doubletop Mountain--are visible in the distance.
The Battle at Nauders, from "Der Weisskunig"
Hans Burgkmair the Elder, German, 1473–1531, 1775
Woodcut on laid paper
Print

Two opposing forces battling fiercely in the foreground. A fortified castle in the distance. Initials "H.B." in oval at lower center. "No. 60[?]," in margin, lower left. Possibly an illustration for Maximilian I's "Der Weiss Kunig" (written 1505-16; published ca. 1775). Illustrations created by Hans Burgkmair and Leonhard Beck between 1514-16.
Sarcophagus and Allegorical Figures
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 18th–19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Two scenes. At top, three figures, one with a cross, stand beside a tomb. At bottom, a more detailed variation of above.
Button
, 1801–50
Brass

Circular, flat button with ornament showing shield with heraldic devices, lion supporters, crown above, and below, a ribbon with inscription. Brass back and shank. On reverse, "Perfectionne C T Paris" on a belt with buckle.

On card E
Studies of Soldiers
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1863–65
Black and white chalk on two joined sheets of brown paper, lined
Drawing

Four sketches of soldiers; two soldiers charging with rifles, at top; and two lying wounded on the ground, at bottom.
Tiraz fragment
, 12th–14th century
linen, pigment Technique: plain weave, painted and stamped

Grayish-tan plain cloth with stamped diagonal lines in relief. Rows of Arabic characters painted over entire surface. Two seams.
Design for a Wallpaper
, 1815–30
Brush and gouache, graphite on paper
Drawing

Flower stems in pointed ovoidal scheme with lozenges in which alternate: a leaf rosette with a laurel bough and with a lyre in one row, and in the other, the leaf rosette with the lyre and an arrow in a wreath; lateral purple stripes.
Sidewall
, 1780
Block-printed on handmade paper

Vertical rectangle. Repeating design of bunch of pink roses and baskets of apples, with intertwining vine of pink jasmine, on green field.
Scene near Hartford, Connecticut
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1845
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a mill building situated in a wooded environment on a spit of land that juts into a stream at left and right. A broken split-rail fence stretches across the foreground at center left, beyond which a stream winds around gentle banks into the middle distance. At center, a well-kept mill building is shown with a lean-to built against its exterior wall. Tall, leafy trees frame the scene at left and right.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing the first part of a panorama of rolling rapids on a wide river. At right, the river's churning, undulating water flows over ledges and rocks on the riverbed, appearing like a crashing wave. Above, a flat horizon is shown in the distance.
Handscreen
, ca. 1750
Engraved and hand-colored paper leaf, turned wood handle

Handscreen with an engraved and hand-colored design. Obverse: a shepherdess enclosed within a frame of arabesques and foliage. Reverse: a map of Europe.
foot warmer
, 1740
wood

Presented by Mr. George S. Palmer ( Netherlands, 1959)
Two Mexicans Standing
Howard Russell Butler, American, 1856 - 1934, 1885 or 1888
Black crayon on paper, laid down on cardboard
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. At left: a man with a gun and a sword is shown in profile turned toward right. At right: a man shown from the back.
Fringe
, 19th century
silk Technique: woven

Woven heading with knotted tassels arranged in stripes of pink, yellow, cream and pale green.
Study of Left Hand for "Communion of the Sick"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1844–45
Graphite, white chalk on tan wove paper
Drawing

Left hand, with sleeve draped over arm, extended toward the right, with palm downwards and fingers apart.
AU LECTEUR
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722, 1749–61
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Engraved text addressed to the reader explaining the origin and purpose of the series of bifurcated grotesque ornament panel designs. The text is framed by an arch with netting and reeds, with a base at the bottom flanked by two mermen blowing horns. Below in the center is one of the prints with a hand holding a mirror in the center to illustrate the intended use of the bifurcated designs (two per page). With rinceaux, fleurons, c-scrolls, and festoons of flowers below. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Sketches of Narni, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 1868
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape and architecture sketches showing two stacked views of buildings on an abrupt hill in the town of Narni, Italy. Above, a complex of at least three buildings is situated on a rocky prominence. Below, a larger collection of structures is also situated on a wide stone foundation with two large arches atop a rocky hill.

Verso: Mixed sketches from Narni, Italy, showing Albornoz Fortress, three figures, and trees. In the upper portion, a view of Albornoz Fortress is shown, with its prominent rectangular tower at right. In the middle section, a woman with a dress looks back over her shoulder at left, and at center, a figure is viewed from behind, and at right, a carriage driver is shown with whip in hand. In lower portion and oriented to the right, a grove of shaded trees is shown beside a loose sketch of an individual tree.
Pedestal of a column
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

The main part is concave and fluted. In the center of the front is a circular medallion hanging from a mask and framed below by two crossed upright cornucopias. Usual background.
spoon
, 19th century
silver

Oval bowl, rattail stem partly twisted and terminating in a circular crusher.
Three chalices
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

At left: upon a high foot stands an urn with festoons supported by cherubim, supporting a short twisted column. The lower part of the bowl is decorated with a row of leaves with st ems in the invervals. Center: the stem is a baluster with an oval medallion above a row of leaves at the front. The lower part of the bowl is surrounded by a row of cherubim. At right in a smaller scale: the lower part of the stem is an urn supporting a baluster. The lower part of the bowl is decorated with cherubim framed above by horizontal branches. Usual background.
Project for a Candlestick
, ca. 1820
Pen and sepia on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Baluster form shaft with scrolls.
Poele pour être placé dans un angle ou dans une niche, avec voussure ornée de caissons
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794, ca. 1791
Etching and hand colored watercolor on paper
Print

Design for a stove heater decorated with neoclassical motifs, in the form of a corner pedestal decorated with a coffered arch, and corner scrolling acanthus leaf (rinceaux) motifs, and the top of the pedestal supported by corbels. A plan view and scale below. The plate is hand colored with watercolor.
Design for a Frame
Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël, French, 1735–1813, 1760
Etching and engraving on paper
Album of frames

Design for a frame with an oval medallion in the center hanging from a festoon of leaves, and framed by textiles, flowers, and palm leaves, within a rectangular frame decorated with a meander pattern along the bottom. The plate is signed and dated.
Basket
, ca. 1830
Enameled tôle

Rectangular, with rounded bottom, on rectangular foot. Openwork wire handle. Black field decorated in gilt, about outside, band of roses and foliage; inside, at either end, peacocks and foliage.
Botanical Study, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1857
Graphite on white wove paper
Drawing

Botanical study of a large-leafed plant in Ecuador. Stem rises at center as six large, ribbed leaves radiate out in all directions.
Design for Wall Niche with a Fountain
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1745
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for panelling surrounding a fountain set within a niche. According to the legend, the design is intended for a dining room. The fountain at center represents Pan and Syrinx and is topped by a trophy with attributes of the sea. The panels on either side feature carved trophies with attributes of viniculture (left) and the hunt (right); below the panels are brackets supporting small sculptures and vases.
Button
, 19th century
Silk, leather

Component -f is on Cooper Union Exhibition card 3
Seven circular cloth buttons with leather backs. a - 7 [sic] woven portrait of Napoleon III; -g: woven portrait of Queen Vic—?
Rocaille Fountain Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1736
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Folio 3, plate 3 of a series of 7. Design for a fountain. Rocaille fountain design with two tritons supporting a shell-shaped rock upon which a nymph sits. The female figure holds a large vase tipped sideways, from which the water pours. A putti below the rock at lower right. Ornamental grotto details in background, a conch shell at lower center.
Sampler
, 1791
silk embroidery, wool foundation Technique: cross stitch on plain weave

Geometric and floral cross borders with alphabets and numerals.  Biblical scenes, people, birds and animals.  Initialed "I. E. R." with the year "1791."
Shoe
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1876
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Four sketches of a lady's shoe.
Elevation of a door case for the center of a façade in the main floor
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, ca. 1790
Graphite on laid paper
Drawing

The door frame is shaped like an aedicule, with a circular pediment. The pedestals of the embedded columns are connected by a balustrade. They are flanked by the pedestals of pilaster strips and of statues. "Prudence" is shown at left, another allegorical figure of a woman at right. A royal escutcheon stands in front of the pediment with garlands hanging from it.
Plaque
Wedgwood, English, established 1759, 19th century
Unglazed tinted stoneware (Jasperware)

Blue and white Jasperware plaque, a vertical panel with arched ends, containing two female figures in flowing robes, walking to the left. Figure on right carries basket of grapes which her companion turns to see.
Design for Cartouche Panel
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1742–50
etching and engraving on paper
Print

1921-6-212-5-a: 2nd state. Central cartouche panel, surrounded by ...;     1921-6-212-5-b: 1st state. Section of building, mezzanine floor sh...;     1921-6-212-5-c: 1st state. Second floor showing fireplace and mirr...
Design for Coronet
, 1800–1825
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Broad curve with cresting border in which oval diamonds alternate with a flower stem stnading upon an inverted crescent.
Window Case
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, 1740–70
Charcoal, brush and dark brown watercolor on laid paper
Drawing

Upper cornices form a circular pediment in the width of the window frame. The console supporting the entablature ends below with a mask.
Study for "Portrait of James Cornell Biddle," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Thomas Sully, 1783 – 1872, 1841
Brush and oil paint on paperboard
Drawing

Three-quarter length portrait of a male figure, seated in an armchair, facing the spectator. A book is held in his left hand, a finger in the volume, marking a place.
The Betrayal of Christ
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1821–22
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on white heavy wove paper
Sketchbook folio

In nocturnal landscape with crescent moon, Judas gives kiss of betrayal to Christ at center. Military commander and soldiers at right, men struggling at left.
Mathilde et Malek Adhel
, ca. 1820
cotton Technique: printed on plain weave
Textile

Four vignettes depicting scenes from the second Crusade story of "Mathilde et Malek Adhel." Printed in red on white ground.
Design for a Pediment with Balcony Above
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748, late 17th–early 18th century
Etching on paper
Print

Architectural detail featuring a pediment with religious iconography, shells, angels, putti (children) mascarons (masks), with corbels supporting a balcony above with an ornamental balustrade sculpted with scrolling leaves, acanthus leaves, festoons of leaves, flowers, and fruit, shells, and c-scroll motifs.
Furniture mount
, 19th century
Gilt bronze

Foliate mermaid with post in the middle of the back.
Sampler
Sally Sacket, American, American, b.1786, ca. 1796
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin and stem stitches on plain weave foundation Label: silk embroidered in cross, satin and stem stitches on linen plain weave foundation

In the upper half, a record of the births of members of the Sacket family: Stephen Sacket born May 23 1752. Eunice Lovering born Dec. 23 1748. Married Nov. 25 1776. Steph'n Sacket Jr. born Aug 7 1777. Eunice Sacket born April 25 1779. Hannah Sacket born Aug 7 1781. Sally Sacket born April 21 1786. Daniel Sact. born Sept 23 1790.

Followed by a verse: 
In prosperity friends are plenty
In adversity not one in twenty

With scattered floral motifs and the initials SS in the lower half, and a floral border on three sides.  The black background is embroidered on natural colored cloth.
Centerpiece
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Design for a centerpiece.
Overdoors with Alternative Suggestions
, 1650–1700
Pen and brown ink, black, red chalk on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Loose architectural sketches. At right, half of a large doorway. At left, a column and smaller view of doorway. Suggestion of plan below.
Plan et élévation d'une porte d'Hôtel
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Plan and elevation of a mansion door. The doorway is surrounded by four tall columns and a sculpted trophy at the roof of flags, coat of arms, shields, and quivers. The door itself is decorated with helmets, garland, wave pattern, a rondel, and putti. The plate is signed.
Fragment
, 15th–16th century
silk Technique: supplementary warp forming raised pile in 4&1 satin foundation (velvet)

Rosettes enclosing smaller rosettes in red. Fragment formerly part of a chasuble.
Box
, early 19th century
wood,sealing wax

Box with lid, box holds thirty-two red wax seals. A: cover; B: bottom
Figures in a Canoe, Lake Millinocket, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1878 - 1879
Graphite on white wove paper
drawing

Figure sketch showing a view of two figures in a canoe on the surface of Lake Millinocket in Maine. Situated at center, the canoe and its riders are viewed obliquely from the rear. The figures sit at either end of the canoe as their forms are vaguely reflected in the water below. The rearmost figure wears a brimmed hat.
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
, 1780–1790
Graphite, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Lower left section of a waistcoat. A border of flowers and leaves along the edge. left. Motif of flowers and leaves below the pocket. Floral design on the pocket indicated in pencil.
Ribbons
Appel Brothers Manufacturing Company, Paterson, NJ, USA, 1893–98
silk Technique: jacquard woven plain weave, chiné, moire, rep
Scrapbook of woven ribbons

Sample book has 94 ribbon samples with stripes in various colors: 288 checks, 243 samples in plain cloth, moiré, chiné, and rep; 92 with fancy woven border; 11 with short fringes; 100 with jaquard weaves; 2 woven labels; 3 small flags.