biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
La Fontaine de Rocaille et les Goulettes de St. Cloû (Left Plate)
Gabriel Perelle, French, 1604–1677, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two plates printed on the same sheet, side by side. Garden views at St. Cloud. The left plate illustrates the Fountain of Rocaille featuring rockwork, potted plants, hedges, and trellis/ lattice walls and arches. With stone arches in the background decorated with pilasters. The right plate illustrates a cascading fountain with steps and basins of water. Hedges with niches featuring sculptures on the right, hedges and trees framing the cascades. Figures walking throughout the grounds in both scenes. The plates are titled.
Woman with a Rosary
Giuseppe Zocchi, Italian, 1711 or 1717 - 1767, 18th century
Etching in dark brown ink on laid paper
Print

A woman with full sleeves and a long veil, or scar, faces right - seen in profile. In her hands is a rosary of large beads and a plain cross.
Design for a Cartouche
, 18th century
Etching on paper
Print

Design for a cartouche featuring flowers, festoons of flowers and leaves, cartouches, foliate branches, shells, scrolling leaves, acanthus leaves, c-scrolls, and birds.
Studies of Figures for an Historical Representation
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Graphite on cream wove paper
Drawing

Left row: A woman struggles to free her left leg, which is jammed between rocks; the lower part of the body of the woman; the rump of a man in Renaissance attire shown obliquely from the back. Right row: The hands, forehead and eyes, and feet of a woman; back of a man in Renaissance attire shown in profile turned toward the left; the head of a man in the attire of the 16th century shown lowered in three-quarter profile.
Cornice Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Two cornice designs, one above the other.  The top cornice is decorated with, from top to bottom, ribbon twist with dowel, scrolling acanthus leaves, and leaf lamb tongue ornamentation. The profile of the cornice is provided at the left, as is a scale marking of "2 Pouces 4 lignes." The lower cornice is decorated with, from top to bottom, egg and dart, bead course, rosettes interspersed with draped garland of fruit and flowers, and lamb tongue ornamentation. The profile of the cornice is provided at the left, as is a scale marking of "2 Pouces 5 lignes." The plate is signed and numbered but does not indicate an album letter.
Plinth, Trophies, and Andirons Desings
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820, 1777
Etching on laid paper
Print

In the center a design for a plinth (or Gueridon) featuring festoons of flowers, fluting, a figure, fleurons, and ribbons. Two designs for trophies on either side with olive leaves, flowers, ribbons, birds, clouds, paper, and a tambourine. Below are two designs for andirons (firedogs) featuring fluting, wave pattern, ribbons, fleurons, festoons of flowers, incense burners, putti, dragon, ewer, arrows, terminal figure, and smoke. The plate is numbered.
Portrait of Louis van Boisot
Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch, 1698 - 1780, ca. 1760
Engraving on paper
Print

Half-length portrait in frontal view. Body slightly turned to right. The sitter in his armor. Engraving is after work by Cornelis Visscher, whose work is after Pieter Soutmann.
Design for Ceiling Decoration
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Design for ceiling decoration featuring central figure amidst clouds, with rinceaux motifs at lower left.
Ornamental Design for the Letter B
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, ca. 1720
Pen and black ink on white laid paper
Drawing

Letter B in reverse intertwined with trophies and a horse's head.
Stage Design: Two Palace Staircases
Domenico Scelzo, Italian, active ca. 1775 - 1800, 1770–1780
Pen and bistre, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle showing two archways with views to elaborate staircases.
Sky Sketch
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1873–74
Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a bright, partially cloud sky--possibly at sunset and likely viewed over Vermont. At center and upper center, a mixture of wispy cirri and puffy cumulous clouds are backlit by a bright sun. 

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a heavily wooded mountain ridge and nearby trees, likely in Vermont. In the middle distance at right, a billowing group of trees are shown on slightly arching terrain. A mountain ridge covered in trees extends across the horizon in the background with a sharp peak at upper left. The trees give the ridge a vibrant, serrated appearance.
Ship on Fire in Turbulent Waters
Hand-colored etching on paper and brown board; verso: hand-colored paper adhered with tape
Bound print

Perspective view of ships caught in a storm, likely the St. Lawrence River. The print is significantly damaged, missing most of the bottom left corner. Several pieces of hand-colored paper are missing from top and bottom right corner. A t center, a ship on fire is tossed towards the left in turbulent waters. The fire is rendered through hand-colored paper, visible through cut-out portions of the print. Part of the sky has been cut out in the same manner, with blue and red hand coloring. The sky is filled with gray storm clouds, and at left, a pair of women perch on a rocky outcropping. One stands with her hands clasped, skirt and apron billowing around her. The other reclines along the rock, crying and holding a handkerchief to her face.

Verso: Pieces of hand-colored paper, parts of which have been taped onto the print.
Gaines pour porter des Bustes
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Designs for two pedestals to support sculpted busts. The pedestal on the left is decorated with a central portrait medallion draped with leaf garlands, and bands of egg and dart and lamb tongue. The pedestal on the right is decorated with egg and dart, acanthus leaves, scrolling vine, and bound leaves. The plate is signed.
Mount
, ca 1805
Stamped, cast and chased gilt bronze

Nude goddess, possibly Hebe, pouring wine from a ewer, encircled by a  billowing scarf with flowing ends, standing on an orb between cornucopiae.
Textile
, 1870–80
cotton Technique: printed on plain weave

Horizontal and vertical parallel lines made of tiny white dots on a brown ground forms regular squares.
Designs for Sculpted Ornament and a Screen or Balustrade
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748, 1748
Etching on paper
Print

Designs for ornamental metalwork, possibly a screen or balustrade along the bottom and above two bases for candelabras or other objects flanked by winged putti (children). The metalwork features flowers, c-scrolls, scrolling leaves, festoons of leaves, fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, and a cross with religious iconography.
Electricity (Motif for Bank Note Design)
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on paper
Drawing

A woman is shown in profile turned toward the right, in the act of flying. Different attitudes are sketched.
Elevation of a house
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Elevation of a house.
Design for a Candelabrum
Claude Maillard, French, 1791
Pen and black ink with ink washes on paper
Drawing

From a vase standing on top of a shaft emerge two acanthus rinceaux holding sockets with low burning candles and a caduceus. Framing lines. Margins.
Purse
, 17th century
silk embroidery on silk and metallic foundation, metal frame Technique: embroidered in satin, knotting, and long and short stitch on plain weave foundation

Small purse attached to silver frame, lined with green taffeta.  Embroidered with knotted stitches, satin stitch and long and short stitch in silk and gilt threads.  On one side, a design of five pink and blue flowers tied with a pink ribbon; on the reverse, a cypher and crown.
Buttons
, late 18th century
Insects, shell, seaweed, paper, copper, tin, glass

Nine buttons with objects under glass, set in copper rims, tin backs with copper shank; A to F) beetles and seaweed; G,H) shells and seaweed J) paper flowers.

Components -a,-b,-c,-d,-e,-g,-h,-j are on card 71
L'OISEAU DE PROYE
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759, 1743
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Plate 3 of a series of 23 prints featuring monkeys acting as humans in various figural scenes. In an outdoor environment, a figure of a monkey in gentleman's costume at left. He wears a hat and holds a walking stick, his arms gesticulating widely. At his feet, a small falcon or hawk attacks a large goose or crane, who cries out. The monkey observes the birds.
Study for a Painted Wall Decoration: Two Putti beside a Vase with Flowers
Antonio de' Dominici, Italian, ca. 1730–after 1800, ca. 1720
Pen and wash with brown ink and black chalk, on off-white paper, lined
Drawing

The rose stands upon a pedestal behind the top of a triangular moulding. The left putto kneels, the right one sits. They carry a rope which swings from the vase.
Iceberg near Cape Race, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 21, 1859
Graphite and white gouache on light brown paper
Drawing

Seascape sketch showing a view of a single iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Situated at center, the berg roughly semicircular in shape, with a truncated knob at upper right and a conical slope at lower left. Hazy atmosphere is faintly rendered by soft pencil scratches at left and right.
Design of Escutcheon and Draped Tablet
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650, mid-17th century
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper, lined
Drawing

Escutcheon in the shape of an ellipse is ornamented at left and right with a serpent and possibly an eagle at right.  Suspended from it below is a tablet with swags at either end like drapery, ending in a scalloped edge.
Man with a Bird
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1773
Etching on laid paper
Print

Plate from a series of chinoiserie prints depicting figures in landscapes with garden canopies in the form of large parasols.  A man stands with a stick on a platform supported by wooden beams, with a large canopy above decorated with festoons of flowers and leaves. A bird is perched to the left of the man. The plate is numbered.
Project for a Cresting
, 1550-80
Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and grey watercolor on laid paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. The right half is shown. Upon the lateral spiral of a kind of scrollwork podium sits a half-figure of a woman, having acanthus leaves as legs. On verso, a part of a decorated pillaster strip.
Clouds, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May–September 1865
Graphite and white gouache on light brown wove paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
Drawing

Atmosphere sketch of clouds in the skies over Jamaica. One white, puffy cloud hangs at upper center, surrounded by smaller, darker clouds. At center right, the top of another large, billowing cloud is visible. Both highlighted in white gouache.

Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing an indistinct view of billowing clouds in an otherwise dark and hazy sky over Jamaica.
Design for a Painted Frieze
, late 18th century
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. At the left, a partial tablet with "IGITVR. A winged head on top. Two putti sitting between a rinceaux.
Elevaon de l’Hostel Tubeuf du costé de la court
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

An architectural elevation of an exterior façade of a Parisian hôtel particulier (grand house) including two sectional views of the interior, featuring windows, pilasters, balustrade, coat of arms. The plate is titled and signed.
Monument Designs
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 1770
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Two plates printed on a single sheet illustrating monuments (funerary monuments) and fountains featuring sculpted figures, a vase, columns, shells, animals, birds, putti, cartouches, festoons, and gadrooning. The lower plate includes an allegorical vignette with nude female figures, and winged putti within a landscape with clouds, and festoons of flowers. The plates are signed, numbered, and dated.
Menuiserie des Banquettes A et B
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevation, profile, and plans for the benches represented in 1921-6-331-32. The plate is signed and numbered.
Horse
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a horse's head.
Les Éplucheurs
Theodule Ribot, French, 1823 - 1891, ca. 1878
Etching on cream-colored paper
Print

Five apprentice cooks are seen in a group pre-paring food; three are seated. Inscribed, top left: "T. Ribot."
Necklace
, late 19th–early 20th century
glass beads, metal fasteners

Tubular necklace with horizontal rows of white glass beads, with four red and blue stripes at the center front and back. Cone-shaped metal fasteners.
Sidewall - fragment
, 1765–70
Block-printed, distemper, oil

Details of an architectural pillar and arch design printed in black and white: a) portion of an arched opening, with spandrel to left, set with a rocaille cartouche;above, lower portion of draped human figure; b) short channelled column flanked at base by head and shoulders of women; across column, a floral swag; at top, apparent base of spandrel of "a".
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1805–1815
Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper pasted on paper
Drawing

Lacy flower boughs stand over an undulated double row of stars and a scalloped stripe. Somewhat more than two repeats are shown.
Backlit Clouds with Sunbeams, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1844 and June 1845
Graphite on white wove paper
drawing

Atmosphere sketch showing a view of tall, billowing clouds over Catskill, New York, backlit by the sun, which emanates its shining beams of light over the cloud and across the sky above. The puffy, rounded forms of the clouds stretch across the composition with a towering prominence at center. Below, a rolling, mountainous horizon is faintly rendered. 

Verso: Unclear landscape sketch that may depict layers of sediment and rock on a cliff or hillside, rain falling from bands of clouds overhead, or shallow water rushing over a stepped cascade. Indistinct composition characterized by layers of undulating horizontal lines with vertical striations coming down from each line.
Stage Design, Castle with a Portcullis
Giovanni Maria Quaglio, Italian, active Italy and Germany, 1700 - 1765, early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, watercolor on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. View through castle gateway under arch with portcullis on huge fortified castle with towers and staircases.
Ornamental Vase Design
L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736, 1761
Etching on laid paper
Print

Vase with a relief of a reclining nude next to a bowl-shaped vase. The vase has a ring handle on either side, through which satyrs stick their heads. The vase has deep fluting along the neck and the body. The base of the vase is decorated with a repeated leaf pattern. The vase has a short, tapered foot, and is elevated on platform that extends to the edge of the image. The plate is signed and numbered.
A Sea God Visiting a Girl
Johann August Nahl The Younger, German, 1752 - 1825, ca. 1781
Black chalk, brush and brown watercolors on paper
Drawing

Drawing after a fresco devised by Giulio Romano in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua. The two figures are shown.
Hut in a Mountain Valley, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1890–93
Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a hut in a mountain valley in Mexico. Grassy, plain-like terrain extends from the foreground and into the background. At center right, a squat hut with a conical roof is prominently visible, with grazing cattle around it. At left and right, two slopes descend toward the center and hem-in the valley. In the background, an immense rugged and purple mountain rises high into the blue and clear sky.
Staircase Balustrade Design
Caillouet, French, mid-18th century, 1775–87
Engraving and etching on paper
Print

A design for a wrought-iron staircase balustrade featuring scrolling, meander (Greek key), and geometric bands with rosettes, and scrolling leaves. The plate is signed and numbered.
Decorative Frame; verso: Frieze with Playing Children
, 1600–1625
Charcoal, pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Frame with scrollwork. At top center, two putti hold crowns above female half figures with acanthus tails. At center below, a mask and festoons. Blank oval panel at center. Double framing lines.
Anneaux de Clefs enrichies pour Meubles précieux
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1784
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Designs for four key tops and two key ports. The one at top left is hexagonal and features a harp within; the one at top right is circular and has a rosette set in a lozenge in the center; the one at lower left is round and has bands of ribbon twist, branches with leaves, and bead course around a central rosette; the one at lower right is octagonal with a bead course frame and a rosette within. The plate is signed and numbered.
Scrolling Foliate Ornament Design
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820, 1777
Engraving and etching on paper
Print

A scrolling foliate ornament design featuring scrolling leaf (rinceaux) motifs. The plate is numbered. The book (Cahier) number has modified with ink to change it to ‘3' and the plate number has been partly scraped away and inscribed in ink to change it to ‘18'.
Flora with Boys
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, ca. 1760–1770
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

Flora, seated, a putto beside her, to the left, another in upper right corner, with garlands.
Letter case
, late 18th century
silk, gilt foil-wrapped silk, paste jewels, gilt foil spangles on silk foundation Technique: embroidered in satin, stem and couching stitches on satin weave foundation

Letter case, made as a singel panel and folded, embroidered in silk and metal threads with paste jewels and spangles on a white satin ground, with yellow silk lining and silk tassels at corners (one missing). Embroidered with an urn with a flowering tree, surrounded by swags, bow-knots and an ornamental border.
Sampler
Francoise Figoli, October 12, 1800
silk embroidery, linen foundation Technique: cross stitch on plain weave

Alphabet, numerals, flowers, altar, key and other motifs. Inscription "Vive Jesu..."  Signed "Francoise Figoli.  Agee de 9 le 12 Octobre 1800."
Designs for Chairs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Designs for two chairs decorated with ornament motifs including branches, scrolls, shells, and a chimera. The plate is signed and numbered.
Textile
, late 18th century
silk Technique: satin weave with supplementary weft

Design of flowers, birds, butterflies and scenes depicting men and animals.
Bassin rond en face de la Rampe d’un des Bosquets à Meudon (Upper Plate)
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two plates printed on a single sheet depicting bosquets or groves in the garden at Meudon, with fountains, trees, and figures. The plates are titled.
Cover
, 1800–1850
cotton foundation, silk embroidery threads Technique: running stitch embroidery

Cover of blue and white checked cotton cloth embroidered in colored silks. The design shows a man on horseback surrounded by human and animal figures within a border in which a human figure appears as a repeated motif.  Lined with red silk and striped cotton cloth.
St. John the Baptist
Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786, ca. 1775
Brush and wash, pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Drawing of John the Baptist sitting on a rock.  He holds a staff in his right hand while he stretches out the other and looks up to the skies.  A winged putto flies above and two others surround a lamb at the lower right corner.
Panel with fasces in wreath; eagle in wreath
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1800
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

One above the other.
Chandelier à trois lumières
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a candelabra with three lights, decorated with ornament motifs including acanthus leaves, fluting, and garland. The plate is signed.
Woman's blouse
, 19th century
piña (pineapple), cotton Technique: whitework embroidery

Woman's whitework blouse with a scoop neck and wide sleeves.
L’HISTOIRE
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808, 1759–80
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Allegorical vignette representing history from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center on a textile held up by an upside-down winged putto holding a scythe, representing father time. In the background clouds, trees, and foliage, with draped figures, monuments including a sphynx on a plinth. Below a putto reaches up at the fabric, holds a quill and leans against an open book, surrounded by a fragment form a column, medals, scrolls, an urn, garlands, bowls, books, and papers. On the edge of the base are symbols resembling hieroglyphs and a festoon of leaves. Lettering below the vignette and the plate is signed.
Sécrétaire à Tombeau
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a drop leaf writing desk, decorated with ornament motifs including ring pulls, garlands, and acanthus leaves. The plate is signed.
POELE d’un même genre, en colonnes tronquées, avec trophées, et surmonté d’un buste de Pallas
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794, ca. 1791
Etching on paper
Print

Design for a stove heater decorated with neoclassical motifs, in the form of a pedestal supporting a column with a sculpted portrait bust of the goddess Pallas wearing a feathered helmet. The pedestal features a shield on the front decorated with flames, lightning bolts, and wings, with swords, and a lion's pelt behind. The base of the pedestal is decorated with running pattern moldings of fluting, laurel leaves tied with ribbon, and rosettes. The base below the pedestal has a laurel leaf crown tied with ribbon. The whole is set into an arche niche. The plate is signed.
Design for an Ewer
, 1775–1800
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Design for an ewer with spout facing left. Scrolling handle and bird head spout. Cherub head and swag at body.
Papal coat of arms
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1786
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Below is a base like an entablature. Upon it, in the center, is a pedestal covered by a cloth which has been raised from the front by two winged female genii blowing trumpets. In the front is a wreath of two branches. Upon the pedestal are the keys and the tiara. Below is a garland. Usual background.
Fountain Basin
Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703, 1650–75
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on white laid paper
Drawing

Two dolphins' tails form lateral edges of basin, their heads at the bottom center of the basin.  Two young male mermaids blowing horns ride upon the dolphins.  Two children, one holding sheet music, are standing before a woman in the center.  She raises a sail with her right hand and leans her left hand upon the head of a dolphin.
Design for a Tabernacle
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746-1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Standing in the center of the altar furniture, above moldings, are two angels which lift a curtain. Above the cornices of the entablature is a pedestal, with festoons and two cherubim, and on top a globe with a cross, and rays.