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

Design for a hunting trophy incorporating a basket, bird wings, animal head, horn, axe, net, festoon of leaves, foliate branches, flowers, and fruit. The plate is numbered and signed.
Classical Figures with Snake on Monument
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Classical nude figures with attributes of war in front of cylindrical monument wrapped by a snake.
Two Waistcoat Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on paper, hand-colored in watercolor
Print

Designs for two embroidered men's waistcoats decorated with floral (flowers) motifs. The design to the right has front skirts and both have pockets. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. The plate is hand-colored in green, red, purple, yellow, and blue watercolors.
Sidewall
, 1750
Leather, wood, silvered, painted and varnished

Vining floral design. Painted in color on background embossed with basket-weave pattern. Diapered field, varnished silver. Foliage in green, flowers in green and blue. Each of the pieces is directly mounted to a wood panel.
Study for God Appears to Moses and his Companions, Plate 171, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736, before 1731
Brush and grey, black, and blue wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper
Drawing

A robed male figure with a crown and staff, presumably God, sits on a throne made of clouds in the center of the composition. Rays of light and a circle of clouds surround him and cover the top portion of the picture, becoming darker as they reach the picture frame. The figure hovers in the sky above a rectangular blue platform. On the ground below a group of robed men kneel and bow before him. One man, presumably Moses, stands in the center with his arms stretched outwards. An elaborately decorated frame borders the scene.
Façade d'un Bâtiment de l'ordonnance Ionique sur un soubassement
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791, 1768
Engraving on paper
Print

Façade and profile of a building of the Ionic order. There is a scale bar of 12 toises (1 toise was equal to about 3.799 square meters) at the bottom of the page. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for an Altar
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Design for an altar. The altar has a wide base of a richly veined marble and has four large statues of male Christian saints or martyrs. There is another sculpted group of Christ descended from the cross, supported by winged angels and a cloud, atop a pedestal. This group is under a baldachin supported by winged angels. The pedestal is supported by four veined columns with Corinthian capitals. The plate is signed and numbered, and a graphite inscription at the bottom of the page indicates that this design was from a project for the altar of the abbey of St. Germain-des-Prés.
Heliotrope
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786, 1757–68
Etching on paper
Print

A floral bouquet of heliotrope, sprigs with flowers and leaves. The plate is titled and numbered.
Button
, late 18th century
Stoneware

1925-2-27-a/c: Three octagonal mounts in the style of Wedgwood Ja...
vase
, ca. 1878
glass, gold

Two vases (a,b) in baluster form with gilt decoration in Islamic style.
Elevation of a wall
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Elevation of a wall.
Elevation of a Tower
, 1753
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Elevation of a bell tower. Above the basement window, a grate of iron bars. A clock set into the pediment, below which is the text: ANNODOMINI MDCCLIII. At top, a cross and bell.
Console table with candlestick
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

The legs have eagle's feet. The central one has the shape of fasces, with the ax turned toward left; the lateral ones are round posts surrounded by a garland. The legs are connected above the feet. Upon the table stands a candlestick. Upright dolphins supported with their tails a bowl in which a dolphin stands upright. From the rim spring two branches, each one with a candle. Usual background.
Coffeepot
, 1750–1799
pewter
coffeepot

Flaring foot in one continuous line with gadrooned pyriform body, which has horizontal molding. Long, twisted, attached spout and double-scrolled strap handle. Dome, hinged cover.
Title Page
Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816, 1789
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Title page from a series of six plates of arabesque panel designs. The title is lettered in the center within an oval cartouche, supported by figures and swans, surrounded by neo-classical arabesque ornament featuring flowers, plants, birds, butterflies, leaves, fleurons, putti, hearts, a chestnut, topped with the head of Apollo surrounded by sun rays, above a lyre, and caduceus. The plate is numbered and signed, with an inscription in red ink along the left side of the plate.
Textile
, 1850
Technique: printed

Red and brown peacocks with palm tree and large blossoms on a brown ground.
Upholstery textile
, late 17th century
wool warp, linen weft Technique: plain weave with depressed warp and symmetrical knotting

Two pieces of knotted pile upholstery fabric for the seat and back of a chair. Naturalistic flowers in multi-colors in a black background.
Fragment
, 16th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, continuous braid like

Pattern of lattice and floral like forms.
THAU KIENE Eunuque du palais a la Chine
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721, 1731
Etching on laid paper
Print

From a series of twelve prints, a Chinese man seated in a landscape, holding a torch in his right hand, buildings in the background. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Samples
Orinoka Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, ca. 1910

a. pink ground with yellow floral motif
b. green ground with yellow floral motif
Cartoon for Cotton Printing: Les Quatre Elements
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France, 1810–20
Pen and ink, brush and gray wash on cream laid paper
Drawing

The design for a textile is composed of four vignettes, separated in pairs vertically, in the center of the composition by a strip composed of trophies symbolizing the elements, and at the repeat, by a strip showing the signs of the zodiac:
A: upper left, Juno seated in a chariot drawn over the clouds by peacocks and accompanied by amoretti (personifying Air); Lower left, Vulcan forging armour (personifying Fire)
Pen wipe
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933, ca. 1910–1920
Favrille glass, bronze

1997-11-4/9: Six-piece desk set of favrille glass and bronze in...;     1997-11-9-a,b: One piece of a six-piece desk set. Rectangular pen...
Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1780-1790
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper

A woman with a helmet holding a torch and fasces is seated in a four-wheeled car. It is drawn by a girl cydeales*** by Saturn, who pass over a fallen enemy. Trumpeters and bundles*** of fasces follow the car. Framing lines.
Tassel
, late 17th century
silk, wooden core

Skirt of red and yellow silk threads, twisted and looped and each supporting a small tassel. Collar of cut threads. Head, cylindrical and broadening toward the base, is covered with red and green threads in a chevron pattern. Loop is braided red and yellow silk threads.
Pocketbook
, late 18th century
silk Technique: embroidered in chain stitches on plain weave Label: silk with silk chain stitch embroidery

Pocketbook of cream-colored silk taffeta embroidered with verse and flowering vine in pink, green and tan silk. Twisted cream-colored silk floss cord around edges; pink silk lining. 
Verse: 
qu'il soit le dépositaire
des sentiments d'un coeur qui sait t'aimer
il n'en est point qui'un ami vueilletaire
il e nest tant qu'il ne peut exprimer
Band
, 16th–17th century
metal strips and metal thread Technique: bobbin lace, metallic

Gold metallic lace with large floral clusters and scalloped outer edges.
Trimming
, 18th century
silk, silver metallic thread Technique: woven

Design of leaves placed alternately up and down with diagonal bands in between. In yellow and white with silver metallic thread.
Study of Grass and Plants
Walter Clark, American, 1848–1917, 1884
Graphite on paper
Album page

A low plant with big leaves at the edge of water.
Stage Design: City Street with Palaces
, late 18th century
Pen and black ink, pencil
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. At left and at right, opposite each other, are two mansions. The first with an open vestibule with a staircase leading to the street. The second house at right has the facade of a temple. The other houses are outlined in pencil. On the reverse some architectural drawings.
Bird's-eye view of the Piazza del Popolo and the Pincio Gardens in Rome
Ernest Farnum Lewis, 1883 - 1950, 1910
Graphite, brush and watercolors on white paper
Drawing

View looking down upon the Piazza del Popolo, Rome, at right, with the Borghese Gardens partially shown at left. Title, upper left. A blank inscription ribbon along the bottom, center.
The Sahara
Franklin Booth, American, 1874–1948, 1909
Pen and black ink on illustration board
Drawing

Golf links, with a golfer shown in the distance. A water tower, left.
Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 
Pencil. Pen, ink. Sepia wash. Paper

Dante and Virgil standing in the left middle plane, look down in an ice hole where Ugolino kneeling behind Roger, bites him in the head.
Wooded Landscape with a Foot Bridge
Antoni Waterloo, 1618–1677, ca. 1650
Etching on paper
Print

In a heavily wooded landscape, a footbridge traverses a stream which broadens in the foreground.
Ornament, Christmas tree
, 1850–99
Dough

Circular flower with tin foil in center and with stem and leaf.
Fragment
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (pre-made continuous tape with Valenciennes round mesh)

Fragment made of continuous pre-made tape  with ribbon like design and scalloped border.
Peep-show, Vue d'Optique Representant Interior Sti Petri in Roma L'Interieur de St. Pierre de Rome
, ca. 1750
Engraving in ink with washes of watercolor on paper, mounted on scrapbook page
Print

Peep-show print
Printer's sample book
Old Pacific Print Works, Lawrence, MA, USA, 1881–82
paper and cotton

Small notebook with handwritten formulas for dyestuffs to be used for printed textiles. Contains 135 samples of printed fabric.
inkstand
, ca. 1860
Brass, inlaid marble, glass

Inkstand with two containers. Brass scrollwork and inlaid decoration of dove and florals.
Fragment
, 14th century
silk, linen, and metallic Technique: 2/1 twill with complementary wefts and brocade wefts

Birds with metallic heads on a chartrease green background
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: plain weave patterned with supplementary warp floats

Allover repeat of palmettes and circular shapes in tan on blue. Left selvage present.
Trimming
, 1850–99
cotton Technique: plain weave with secondary warp of blue chenille

Cream coloured cotton plain cloth ground with design of ovals formed by secondary warp of blue cotton chenille.
Woven portrait
Philippe de la Salle, French, 1723–1803, ca. 1771
silk Technique: 4&1 satin with discontinuous supplementary wefts bound on the front in plain weave by a supplementary warp

A woven portrait of the Comte de Provence is embroidered to the fabric that forms the frame. The frame is a woven wreath of multicolor flowers with a bow at the top.
Red, amber
Gallé, late 19th–early 20th century
Glass
Vase

Tall ovoid footed vase with long neck; opaque black base and flowers on opaque cream ground.
A Sitting Room with a Writing Table
Wilhelm Amandus Beer, 1837 – 1907, 1867
Brush and watercolor with accents of gold paint over graphite on paper
Drawing

The Rococo Revival desk is placed at right angles to the window to catch the light. The center table is covered with a rust-colored cloth bordered by a pattern in the oriental style, similar to that of the carpet. The folding chair placed against the rear wall is in the style of chair maker George Hunzinger. The ormolu-mounted, ebonized cabinet between the windows on the right holds precious ornaments. In front of the elaborate marble fireplace in the left hand corner is a fire screen inset with an embroidered panel featuring a white horse in parade regalia on a ground of brilliant green.
Bandbox
, 1820–50
Block-printed

Partial side of bandbox, with horses, riders and stables.
Bandbox
, 1820–30
Block-printed paper, pasteboard support

Partial bandbox lid. Scene depicts a hunt. Two mounted riders are about to hurdle a rail fence over which two hounds have already jumped. At extreme right is the prey which resembles a rabbit. Among the trees in the rear are two other mountedhorsemen.
Design for Sideboard with Cabriole Legs and Ball and Claw Feet
A.N. Davenport Co., 1900–05
Graphite on thin cream paper
Drawing

Large oblong sideboard with four scrolled legs with ball and claw feet carved with acanthus decoration; serpentine tri-partite front with four conforming drawers above recessed central section which has two more drawers with small door either side; central section flanked by two large doors; low backsplash with paterna medallion decoration center.
Lexington
, ca. 1825
Block-printed
Sidewall

Floral stripe, with two different pink floral sprigs alternating. The rows are separated by foliate sprays, while the columns are separated by a foliate stripe. Printed on white, pink and varnished green on yellow ground.
Bathroom and Boudoir Interior
Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823, 1807
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, varnish, graphite on off-white paper
Drawing

In the foreground, a boudoir with vaulted ceiling decorated in the arches with wreaths and alternating thunderbolts.  A chandelier is suspended from center of the ceiling.  Marble floor in geometric pattern in soft green, blue, and pink is covered on either side of room by long, flowered carpets.  Console tables in front of pier mirrors hold Etruscan-style porcelain and gilded vases with bouquets.  A white marble-top table at left has group of silver-gilt necessities for the bath:  a ewer, basin, and water pitcher.  Across the room at right a resting alcove showing a reclining chaise with horizontally tufted upholstery.  At rear, porticos on either side of central entrance to lower-level semi-circular bathing room are supported by Corinthian columns.  Large white swans, on inner edge of cornice, spew streams of water.  Semicircular dome of bathing room decorated with bands of elongated vases and flowers terminating in acanthus motifs.  White draped curtain caught with palmettes runs width of bathing room.  At center, a seated woman in bathing pool, her hair washed (?) by a servant.  Two women, wearing blue Empire dresses, also attend the woman, one holds towel, the other pours water into pool.  At far right, a woman dressed in white gown, pulls aside the curtain of dressing area.
Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal
Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965, 1910–14
silver
fork

2008-15-1,2: Pair of salad servers. Fork (-1) has leaf-shaped b...;     2008-15-1: Part of a pair of salad servers. Fork has leaf-sha...;     2008-15-2: Part of a pair of salad servers. Leaf-shaped bowl ...
cuff link
Theodore W. Foster & Bro. Co., 19th century
Gold

Relief ornament of a lion and lioness
The Study of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna
Josef Sotira, Austrian, active in Austria and Russia, 1830 – 1840, 1835
Brush and gray wash, watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink on off- white wove paper
Drawing

This view depicts a room with a coffered, barrel-vaulted ceiling and furniture in the Russian taste (1820-1830). On display are a large collection of paintings, two marble sculptures of the Crouching Venus flanking the window, and potted plants, urns and vases. The Czarina is seated at her writing table at the far end of the room.
Sampler
Sarah Goundrey, English, 1809
silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, stem, eyelet, and four sided stitches on plain weave foundation

Within a curving floral border, four alphabets and a text: "Fragrant the rose but it fades in time/ The violet sweet but quick past the prime/ While lillies hand their heads and soon decay/ And whiter snow in minutes melts away/ Such and so withering are our earthly joys/ Which Time or Sickness speedily destroy" then a scene of a house in a landscape and a signature.
Countryside with Pond and Trees
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905, 1885–1902
Graphite on cream wove paper
Sketchbook folio

Grass at right in foreground and a pond at left in foreground. In distance, across the pond, two stands of large trees. On land to right of pond, possible cows grazing.
Fragment
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Mechlin style with Point de Paris ground

Birds on a symetrical tree.
Dessert Fork wtih Beetle Clutching Mouse
Charles Victor Gibert, French, ca. 1890
silver
fork

Four tined fork with thin tines. Plain narrow stem, continues to form leaf. Beetle applied perching on terminal of leaf, which bends downwards. On underside of terminal, mouse with belly up and mouth open applied caught in the grasp of the beetle's claws.
Decanter and stopper
, ca. 1810–15
glass

Bulbous body; 3 triple neck rings; wide flat lip; cut decoration on sides of 5 panels, each with arches on columns covered with fine diamonds and a star in center; prismatic rings around shoulder; mushroom-shaped stopper radially cut.
Knife with Silver and Tortoise-Shell Handle
, ca. 1800
steel, tortoise-shell, silver, wood
knife

Blade has straight upper edge, tapering towards the point. Drop bolster, handle flaring towards the end, wooden core, decorated on front and back with tortoise- shell, inlaid with silver decorative pattern: scrolls, scallops, acanthus leaves, a squirrel and a man in costume in one side; a bird and a nude figure on the reverse.
Textile
, 1876
cotton Technique: block and roller printed

Printed length has a vertically repeating palmette cartouche containing an American eagle with a shield flag. Cartouches have a stippled ground with eagle surrounded by a flower garland. Larger curving flower garlands surround each cartouche on both sides. Printed in shades of brown, blue, and red.
Cartoon for Memorial Window: Courage, Oberlin College
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, early 20th century
Photograph mounted on gray board
Photograph

Photograph of a decoration: a Classical soldier wearing robe, holding shield and sword; above, text: COVRAGE; below: IN MEM ORY OF / JACOB DOLSON / COX 1828-1900.
Obelisk
Petrus van Marum, ca. 1700–30
Glazed earthenware

Four-sided obelisk with molded shell and scroll ornaments at base of each side, finial at top, splayed foot; painted in underglaze blue, the sides with fruit and birds, the base with floral/leaf scrolls.
Optical Toy: "The Entrance to Green Park" (Spooner's Protean Views, no. 11)
William Spooner, England, active 1830 – 1854, ca. 1838
Lithograph, brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
Print

View of Marble Arcch. When held to the light, the scene is shown as if at night. Saint George's Hospital on the right. Below, title and publisher's name between two vignettes.
Le Printemps from Les Quatre Saisons
Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, French, 1725–1811, ca. 1785
Block-printed on handmade paper
Sidewall

Two identical panels, produced by Reveillon. Two arabesque designs with personification of Spring printed in grisaille with pink inset cameos. Rose bouquet-filled vessels fitted with satyr's mask handles. Printed on turquoise ground.
Border
, early 18th century
bobbin lace

Bobbin lace border, floral vine; early 18th century Bruges a Brides
Sketch of Sandsend, Whitby, England
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905, July 1892
Pen and black ink on off-white wove paper
Sketchbook folio

View down the beach of small town on left with ocean on right. Large cliffs in background.
Butterfly
René Lalique, French, 1860–1945, ca. 1890–1910
silver, opal, enamel
Stick pin finial

Curvilinear foliage with insect with plique-a-jour enamel wings, opal on stem.
Sidewall
Cresswell & Washburn Ltd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 - 1900, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

On light gray and tan vertical striped ground; staggered bouquets in gold scrolls and white and tan bouquets, rinceaux linking them all.
Frieze
Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1905–1915
Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

Landscape frieze. Trellis arches across top and inverted arches along bottom. Scene contains mountains and clouds. Rose swags in foreground.
Designs for Wallpaper and Textiles: Flowers
, 19th century
Brush and gouache, graphite on cream paper
Drawing

Seven varying clusters consisting of pink roses, rosebuds, stems and foliage, not evenly spaced. Vertically rectangular guidelines in graphite visible.
Centerpiece with the Four Continents
Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868, ca. 1840
silver
centerpiece

Scrolled base with four pairs of seated figures representing the Four Continents; arms of Solomon Rothschild (1774-1885).
Saucer, from a Tea Service
Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776, 19th century
porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
saucer

1992-5-57: Saucer interior with segmented decoration of gilt ...
Fragment
, 18th century
linen Technique: plain weave embroidered with deflected element work

Fragment of a woven linen border with scallops forming scrolls. Beneath scrolls are four different types of flowers.
Portrait of a Man with a Turban
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664, ca. 1650
Red crayon on laid paper
Drawing

Bust-length figure of a man, seen in profile, facing the right. He wears a turban and coat and has a long beard.
Totsuka Teahouse, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, ca. 1834
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

Here is a spritely scene of travelers outside a teahouse of the town of Totsuka. From Edo (Tokyo) to Totsuka at the time, was about one day's journey. There is a man gingerly mounting off his horse. On the left of him, a female maidservant, finely dressed is greeting the visitors after their long voyage. There is a man on the right, standing next to the horse, is a porter, with his back facing us. Next to him is a woman who is carrying a large bundle, still balanced on her back. On the right side is an elderly man, nimbly balancing many bundles on his body while crossing the bridge.  A milestone next to the bridge says, "For Kamakura, Turn Left." The animated indigo streaks on the foreground indicate that nightfall is swiftly approaching.
Blackamoor Figure of a Fruit Vendor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, 18th century
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
figure

A "Blackamoor" female figure in squared headdress holding a basket of lemons.
Chest
Stephen Rockwell, ca. 1825
Leather, wood, brass, paper

Rectangular box with lock hinged lid: scalloped flap of leather with pinked edge extends from front and sides of lid. Covered with brown leather held down by round-headed brass tacks in edging rows, and scallop patterns. Quarter circles of tan leather, edged with brass tacks, in four corners of top. Bail handle in center of top. Lined with pale blue paper.

American
Floral design for printed textile
Louis-Albert DuBois, Swiss, 1752–1818, 1800–1818
Brush and gouache, grpahite on white wove paper
Drawing

Multi-colored floral and leaf design on white ground.
Pair of wig stands
, 1740–60
Glazed porcelain with underglaze cobalt decoration

Decoration of dragons, smoke clouds and tongues of fire in blue and iron red on white.
Architectural Details at Blois
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925, 1883
Graphite on paper
Drawing

A capital, lower center. Cornucopia, left; back view of gargoyle, right.
Decor galerie de Flore
Jules Desfossé, French, active 1851 - 1863, 1856–57
Block-printed paper
Decorative panel

Statue of an infant supporting a basket of flowers with burgundy and lavendar cameo in base. Putti is facing left, standing on a vine-covered pedestal. Gold highlights. Printed on white ground.