biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for the Embroidery of the Lower Front Part of an Overskirt of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, ca. 1785
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

A kind of embroidered cloth is shown along the hem. Its fringed upper part is fastened by nails from which rise alternately a fantastical palm plant and a plant with naturalistic flowers. A bunch of flowers which is connected with two palms by garlands is suggested in the wedge. "P. 1534" is written in ink in the upper center"
Design for Coat of Arms, from "Livre de Cartouches"
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648–1719, ca. 1680
Etching on paper
Print

Plate 2. Five escutcheons, two eagles, a dolphin, a stag, a panther.
Portion of a Hill
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, possibly 1866
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing the contour of a hill or mountain range. Generally rounded in form, the hill descends to the left, where a small subsidiary peak interrupts this downward slope. Faint suggestion of a horizon visible in the background at left.
Ruins, Burek, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 27, 1868
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Architectural and landscape sketch of the ancient ruins near the town of Burak (also spelled Burraq) in southern Syria. Stone wall of a building frames scene in foreground at right. Across a road, multiple ruinous stone structures are visible at center, situated on a slightly elevated rise.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a town situated in a saddle between two tall, round hills--visible at left and right. A prominent tower is shown at center with a detail of it at upper right. Beyond, snow-coved mountains backdrop the view of the town.
Unfinished Elevation of Altar
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, ca. 1750
Graphite, pen and ink on laid paper
Drawing

Pairs of Ionic columns or pilasters support laterally entablatures which are connected by the segment of an arch. A tripartite structure of two stories stands between the columns. On top of it is a molded frame.
Letter to Dr. Dudley Tenney
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1897
Pen and black ink on paper
Ephemera

Above, envelope addressed to Dr. Dudley Tenney, 44 W. 52, City. Below, illustrated letter with two figures drinking through long straws from bottles labeled gin, rye, and rum; extracted teeth.
Title Page
Gilles Légaré, French, 1617 – after 1685, 1663
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Title page for a series of jewelry designs. The title is lettered in the center framed by a garland made up of jewels, flowers, musical instruments, measuring devices, and other objects. In the foreground on a tiled floor, a jeweled rectangular clock with a dome. A landscape and clouds in the background with buildings in the lower left. The plate is signed and dated.
Printing block
, 18th century
wood

Triangular-shaped block for printing textiles carved in design of conventionalized flowers and leaves on curving stems. Grooves in sides for handling.
Design for an Earring
Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794, ca. 1770
Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
Drawing

Jewelry design for an earring. In the middle, between the disk above and the three drops below, is a blossom at the center of two symmetrically arranged branches.
Button
, late 18th century
Stoneware

1925-2-13: Circular medallion in the style of Wedgewood Jaspe...
Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament
Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796, ca. 1750
Etching, engraving on white laid paper
Print

Two designs epitomizing the fantastical asymmetric rococo spirit, possibly to be produced in gold or silver. At left, a vase-like form decorated with shell motifs, acanthus leaves and c- and s-scrolls. At right, an ewer form decorated with shell, leave and c- and s-scrolls. Two auricular fragments are placed between the two objects.
Rocaille Cartouche Designs
Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796, mid- 18th century
Etching on off white laid paper
Print

Designs for rocaille cartouches. The larger central cartouche features a young child looking down over scrolls at an owl that peaks its head through a hole. The plate is signed and numbered.
Button
, 19th century
Domestic jade (nephilite [nephrite?]), brass, steel

Components -b,-c,-e,-f are on card 18
-b,c: circular convex buttons of jade. Pierced in center by steel wire bent to form shank on underside. -d,e: slightly crescent-shaped pieces of jade pierced in venter by brass wire bent to form shank on underside.
Washwomen with Flowers in their Hair, Barranquilla, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 1-9, 1853
Graphite on white wove paper
drawing

Figure and landscape study of six women and a child washing clothes in Barranquilla, Colombia. At left, one figure kneels as she works. At center, three women are hunched over a washing basin, while two figures at right return the viewer's gaze. In the background, a home and the top of a palm tree are visible.
Sampler
Jane Yates, 1779
silk embroidery, wool foundation Technique: tent, cross, satin, eyelet and stem stitches on plain weave

In the center, a prayer with flowering sprays on either side; at the top, alphabets and verse; below scene with shepherd and shepherdess and animals on a lawn before a house.
Stage Design, Hospital at Brescia
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843, early 19th century
Pen and bistre ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. View through vaults to background with buildings. Figures under vaulted archway, two men at left carrying stretcher.
Les plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée
Israel Silvestre, French, 1621 – 1691, 1664
Engraving and etching, black ink on rolled paper
Print

In the foreground, a banner and above a frieze of the back of an audience.  In the center the Palace of Alcina is exploding with fireworks and rockets.
Design for Sculpture: Angel in Adoration
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650, mid- 17th–late 17th century
Pen and brown ink, gray wash on white laid paper laid down on white laid paper
Drawing

Upon a rough base, shown from the right angle of the front; the figure is turned toward left; the angel, his left knee bent and his arms crossed, looking downwards.
Virgin Mary, Joseph, and Child, with a Globe
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, 1764
Engraving in brown ink on beige paper
Print

The Child sits at left with hsi back to a curtain and leans on the Globe. The Virgin at right, reaches out to him, with Joseph between and in back of them. Below, the artist' names and place of publication.
Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church
, ca. 1830
Pen and bistre ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of Gothic building, probably church with canopy on the left. Many later corrections and modifications to drawing.
Sketches for Furniture
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1790
Graphite on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Lower page shows three chair designs with round backs and pierced legs. More sketches at top of page with inverted orientation.
Sketch for a Wall Painting
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844, early 19th century
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

A flying woman raising an urn with her right arm, and putting the left upon a book which is supported in front of her buy a putto.
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800–1815
Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper
Drawing

Curved flower boughs, three of which are shown, are connected by curved lines.
Stole
, 19th century
silk ribbons, glass beads, metal thread, and paillettes. Technique: embroidered

Ribbon of red silk with narrow borders in Persian cone design with ornaments of rosettes and, at either end, flowering stems, cross border and fringe worked in metal threads, foil, and paillettes. B similar to A, except for ribbon which is plain.
Feu à l'Espagnole
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for an andiron decorated with ornament motifs including wave pattern, garlands, rosettes, pinecones, acanthus leaf scrolls, bound leaf, and gadrooning. The plate is signed.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, cotton (?) Technique: two integrated fabric structures (brocatelle)

Fragment from a chasuble. Strapwork containing spaces filled with flowering urns alternate with flowering plants. The interstices of the strapwork have an oval space with the letter 'M' on a checkerboard background. Leaf shapes on the strapwork contain snakes and salamanders. Yellow, ivory and reddish purple.
Designs for Firearms Ornament
de La Collombe, French, active 1702 – 1739, ca. 1730
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Designs for firearms ornament and details, featuring trophies, profile portraits, animals, emblems, interlaced L's and heraldry, the Royal coat of arms of France, dolphins, fleurs-de-lys, a sun, sun rays, mascarons, dragons, creatures, cornucopia, leaves, sprigs, fronds and strapwork. The plate is signed.
Church and a House in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 3, 1868
Graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Architecture and landscape sketch showing views of a church and a house in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. At center, a church with a tall, square, and stacked belltower and steeply angled roof is shown from the rear. Other buildings are faintly rendered around it, while a heavily wooded mountain is shown behind it. Separately rendered, a sketch of the facade of a chalet and nearby vegetation is included at lower center.
Six Trophies composed of Military Attributes
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1780
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Two columns of six military trophies. Upper left: drums and crossed banners, fasces and pickaxe; upper right: soldier's upper body armor, axe, and sword; center left: cannon, spiked staff; center right: cannon balls, arrow, basket with scythe; lower left: basket, musket, banners, helmet; lower right: drum, shield, and banners.
Two Floral Tailpieces or Fleurons
Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French, 1724 - 1806, 1760
Etching on laid paper
Print

Fifth plate from a series of six of tailpieces and fleurons originally designed for the 1755-1759 four-volume edition of the Fables de La Fontaine.  Two fleurons or tailpieces, one above the other, made of flowers, leaves and branches. The plate is numbered and signed.
Apotheosis of Franklin
, ca. 1780
linen warp, cotton weft Technique: copperplate printed on plain weave
Textile

One of four fragments of cotton, copperplate printed in red design known as American Independence, Apotheosis of Franklin, etc.  the design shows Washington in a chariot drawn by leopards, standing and behind him a female figure holding a shield on which "American Independence 1776" is inscribed.  Franklin is shown with a female figure carrying a liberty cap on the staff; above them a scroll: "Where Liberty Dwells There is my Country."
Sketch of a Left Foot
, early 18th century
Red crayon on brown paper
Drawing

A left foot is depicted from above with the heel lifted and erect and the foot leaning  slightly towards the left side of the drawing.
Stage Design, Prison Interior
Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga, Italian, 1751 - 1831, early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash on wove paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Rough sketch of interior of palace or prison with stairs.
Designs for a Garden and Monuments
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 1770
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Two plates printed on a single sheet. The upper plate illustrates designs for a fountain, a tomb, and sculpted architectural details with a landscape and monuments in the background. Each design is lettered with a description below. The lower plate illustrates a garden design with steps, sculptures in niches, fountains, canopies, potted plants, and balustrades. The plates are titled, signed, and numbered.
Decorative panel
Xavier Mader, 1805–1815
Block printed on handmade paper

Horizontal rectangle in symmetrical design. In center, yellow and white urn, flanked by two Grecian figures playing the lyre, seated on yellow acanthus scrolls. At either side, a torch encased in yellow acanthus and palm leaves, on warm gray ground.
Sketch for “The Hare and the Tortoise” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World Series”
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, ca. 1878
Graphite on paper
Ephemera

Upper left, profile of rabbit sitting, with legs crossed, arm leaning on labelled book, left arm on hip. Upper right, turtle, with mouth open.
Man
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Partial sketch of a male figure wearing a hat.
Coupe d’un batiment de quatre toises de face, prise sur la longueur
A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768, ca. 1762
Etching and engraving on paper.
Print

An architectural section depicting an interior of a four-storey building with the attic and basement levels included along with a walled garden to the left on the ground level. The interiors depicted include two rooms on each floor, with a total of ten rooms. Most of the rooms are ornately decorated with fireplaces, mirror-frames, panelling, console tables, and a large standing clock. A scale is included below the section and the whole is framed in black. The title is lettered below along with the name of the artist and printmaker. The plate is numbered ‘5' in the lower right corner.
Project for a Frame
, 1740–1770
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and bistre on paper
Drawing

Ornament with two dolphins eating from a central shell. Seaweed women into their tails on either end.
Four Tailpiece Designs
Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778, 1759–80
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Four individual designs for tailpieces possibly representing the four seasons. The vignettes depict scenes with putti or children in landscapes. Top left: putti swimming in water and sitting near the water, with trees and flowers. Top right: putti surrounded by clouds, textiles with birds, and flowers. Lower left: four putti sitting around a fire, with a textile attached to trees behind them for shelter. Lower right: a group of putti surrounded by wheat, holding agricultural tools, sickles, and a scythe.
Sidewall and border
, 1810–20
Block printed on handmade paper

Vertical rectangle. Field covered with diagonally-placed white dots, leaving space for two motifs at center; one of a child offering a rose to a woman seated in a chair beside a table; the other of a rabbit crouched on a log. Above, border of drapery and daisy baskets; above this, and across the bottom, border strip of simulated architectural molding, printed in brown and yellow.
Sailboat
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879–1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch from the cockpit of a sailboat with sail raised.
Sidewall
, 1845–50
Block-printed on machine-made paper

Diagonally repeating design of four elements, in a framework of foliage: a) horseman, with castles in background; b) drinkers; c) hunters; d) herdsmen, with sheep and cows. Coloring scheme high in key. Vertical rectangle.
Wall Elevation for a Salon with Mantelpiece
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794, ca. 1785
Pen and black ink, brush and rose and blue watercolor on paper
Drawing

A mantelpiece is flanked by two closed folding doors.  A combination time piece and candle bracket stands on the mantel.  A girl and a child are seated beside the dial.  Written with ink, bottom framing: "GLT" at left. "Sallon" center; "Compose et dessine par Gustave Taraval architecte/ Inspecteur des Batimens du Roy."
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcost, No. 490 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, ca. 1785
Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

Left bottom corner with obliquely rising bottom edge. Hedges form gates and an arch beneath which a basket with flowers and fruit stands. Three festoons and wreaths.
Design for Chinese Pavilion in a Lake
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825, 1785
Aquatint in brown ink on paper
Print

Sections of the pavilion and of the bridge, elevation of the doorway of the bridge, numbered I to IV.
Angel Playing Lute; Verso Angels with Cross
, 1600–1650
Red chalk on paper
Drawing

Angel shown in three-quarter profile, facing left, his mouth open in song. Below, the head of a woman.
Button
, 1789–90
Brass

On card C
Three fleur-de-lis and Imperial crown. Troop unidentified.
Project for a Frame
, 1700–1750
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white paper on secondary paper support
Drawing

An angel is shown flying and supporting with his raised right hand a scrollwork frame. Clouds are shown at the bottom.
Tamaca Palm, Colombia or Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May–October 1853
Graphite on gray laid paper
Drawing

Botanical sketch showing a view of a tamaca palm somewhere in Colombia or Ecuador, with the faint outline of another beside it at right. Also referred to as the tamaco, chota, or corozo palm, this tree's scientific name is Astrocaryum standleyanum. It has a long, slender trunk with spiny scales around its upper portion. Its canopy is roughly spherical in shape and radiates fronds in all directions.
Designs for Ceiling and Wall Decorations
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Designs for Ceiling and Wall Decorations.
Panel Design
Bellay, French, active from 1734, ca.1734-49
Etching and engraving: counterproof on laid paper
Print

A counterproof of a print from this series, plate 16 (1921-6-490-20). A design for an ornamental panel featuring rococo and chinoiserie motifs with an ornately decorated frame of leaves, c-scrolls, rinceaux, fleurons, a cartouche, drapery, vases, canopies, birds, balls, and leafy branches. In the center, two figures play musical instruments (a tambourine and a string instrument) with fantastical structures, screens, and vases in the background. The edges of the print are missing but are drawn with graphite.
Architectural Ornaments
, 1750
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Two designs for architectural ornament. At left, a scrollwork escutcheon stand on a base. At right, a shield escutcheon leans against a parapet.
Arabesque Designs
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840, 1787–95
Etching on laid paper
Print

Plate with arabesque ornament designs and a plinth with an unidentified mechanical device decorated with Neoclassical and Empire style motifs. Palmettes, vases, acanthus leaves and foliate scrolling motifs, rosettes, masks, and seahorses. The plate is numbered.
Projet pour le Maitre Autel de l'Eglise de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for the Master Altar of the Church of St. Sulpice of Paris), plate 109, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1748
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

Stairs leading to altar decorated with image of Christ-like figure; with female figure on right and male figure on left. Above, canopied by two figures supporting a book; above this, large cross with putti and sunrays emanating. Arches and windows in background.
Royal palace in the style of Borromini
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1796
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Main facade of the royal palace in the style of Borromini.
Design for a Woven Fabric
, 1825–1850
Graphite, blue, lateritious, and white gouche on oily tracing paper
Drawing

In the same style as 1909-13-106. Lozenge scehem composed of triangles and squares. Four horizontal rows in blue and white are to alternate with four rows in blue and lateritious color. Three different kinds of inner divisions are skeetched for the white and lateritious squares.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: woven

Blue and yellow trimming fragment with a leaf design and conventional forms.
Man's coat
, 1751–1800
silk Technique: embroidered

Man's coat of changeable brown and blue grosgrain embroidered with a large floral design in pale polychrome colors.
Décorations de Lambris pour des Chambres à cheminées avec portes à placard
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1774
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Split design for an interior with a fireplace at the center. The room is decorated with ornament motifs including, on the left: rosettes, scrolling acanthus brackets, ribbon twist, egg and dart, and garland; on the right: an over-mirror panel with urn and putto, egg and dart, lion head with o-ring pull, and an overdoor panel with portrait medallion and garland. The plate is signed.
Sunset Sketch
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August and September 1844
Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a dramatic sunset, either over Hartford, Connecticut, or Catskill, New York. At center, the sun, partially obscured by puffy clouds, sends crepuscular rays (or sun beams) radiating in every direction. It floats just above a rolling and faintly rendered horizon. Puffy clouds at upper center are loosely articulated.

Verso: Figure sketch of two sleeping pigs lying down, likely at Thomas Cole's farm in Catskill, New York. The pig at left lies in right profile, while the pig at right faces forward.
Border
, ca. 1830
Block-printed

Acanthus rinceaux in dark neutral red-orange on field of light neutral red-orange.
One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man
, 19th century
Japan watercolor or silk on paper
drawing

From a series of sixteen scenes of the death and burial of a man in Japan.
Frieze Design
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, 1655–82
Etching on laid paper
Print

A large frieze featuring scrolling leaves (rinceaux), putti, a male and female figure, a vase, mascaron (mask), foliate branches, festoon of flowers, and ribbons. The publisher's address is lettered below.
Cheminée à la Moderne
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a fireplace decorated with ornament motifs including ribbon twist, acanthus leaves, scrolling acanthus leaves, and a mascaron. The plate is not signed.
Opium Pipe
, probably 19th century
bamboo, bronze, gold, silver
opium pipe

Long pipe with dark metal mouthpiece and bowl and a caramel-colored midsection. The shank features incised calligraphy, and the stem is decorated on one side with a woman in a loose-fitting garment.
Border
, 18th century
linen Technique: needle lace

Indeterminate pattern of scrolls with leaves and roselike forms.
Textile
, ca. 1810
cotton Technique: woodblock printed on plain weave

white
Woman's short coat
, early 19th century
silk, metallic yarns Technique: embroidered on damask weave

Short coat hand-sewn with wide sleeves, small round neck opening, and overlap buttoned at neck with two ball buttons and at right side seam with three buttons. Body of dark gray silk with woven pattern of scrolls and cruciform figures in staggered rows. Around the neck, sleeves, front and lower edges is a border of white satin embroidered with landscapes, figures and flowers in silk satin stitch and couched metal threads. The white border is framed by narrow borders of blue satin and two metal brocaded gallooms in different widths.
Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano
Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808, 1772–77
Brush and watercolor, gouache over etching on white wove paper
Print

Vertical designs for mouldings including: cameo elements, birds, lions, griffins, masks, lion heads, lunette with landscape, putti, caryatids, intertwined ribbons. Scale below.
Textile
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815, 1790s
cotton Technique: madder colors block printed; other colors added by brush; plain weave foundation

Polychrome print in black, purple, blue, green, yellow and reds on an off-white ground. Overlapping pointed arch forms contain a variety of floral and plant patterns.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, metallic Technique: brocaded plain weave

Double palmette arranged in alternating rows on blue ground.