biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for the East Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, ca. 1755
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Above the door frame is a half circle with a trophy of arms of Cardinal Albani. Above the straight entablature of the door-case, in the center, is a vase with dolphins beside it and garlands hanging cross-like from the backs of crouching sphinxes. A prior suggestion has been erased. The entablature is richly decorated and subdivided horizontally by consoles with ram's heads. In the frieze, in the place of triglyphs, alternate a female herma and two figures beside a candelabrum. Above, a wall of a pointed vault into which is inscribed a half circle with a shell on top and a mask at the point. In the lunette, the star and the threemount of the Albani appear upon a pedestal in front of a shell, in the center of a broken pediment on the cornices of which sit satyrs with palm branches. In the door, a lady with a fan, a gentleman-with his left hand outstretched and carrying a walking stick-and a dog appear.
River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris
Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618, ca. 1690
Engraving on laid paper
Print

A river god with rushes in his hair reclines on a bank. Beside him is a crane and a vessel from which water and fish flow. The figure is set within a medallion on a dark field (sur fond noir) decorated with intricate grotesques.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile on satin ground (velvet)

Red trimming fragment in a design of a curving stem with flowers, leaves and buds between wavy borders.
Elevation of a Sauce Boat
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868, 1810
Pen, washes, black ink, sepia washes
Drawing

The sauceboat is made of gilded silver.  The bowl is oval shaped, decorated with a small medallion under the lip, a leaf pattern and narrower border under the rim.  The handle consists of a winged sea horse.  The support is decorated with palm leaves, and the base, which rests on lions' feet, has leaf motifs along the sides.
In the Woods
Jules Jacques Veyrassat, French, 1828 - 1893, 1873
Etching on paper
Print

Two horses (black and white) with a carriage on a forest road. In side view facing to left. Inscribed, lower right: "J. Veyrassat 73".
Design for a Tureen
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868, 1825–1835
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

The body is banded by an arabesque frieze with lions and a medallion portrait in the center. The handles are formed by paired snakes issuing from a bound cluster of leaves. The finial is banded by a frieze of arabesques, vases, half-fish, half-swans, and masks, and rests on animals' feet. Lower right (in red ink): "No 4 [?]" (cut off)
Design for a Comb
, ca. 1830
Pen and ink, brush and gray, yellow, red watercolor on paper
Drawing

Jewelry design for a hair comb intended to be executed in gilded, partly engraved metal, silver and diamonds. In the cresting border, blossoms composed of a central red diamond framed by smaller white ones and connected with a leaf branch in the Gothic manner, and other floral motifs as grapes. Below, a silver and an engraved gold band. Twenty-five tines.
Lit avec Aigle
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1792–1814
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Second plate from a series of bed designs. The title is lettered above a daybed design featuring neoclassical and empire style ornament, with its base seen in profile below and a scale. The bed curtain with passementerie and tassels hangs above the bed from a sculpted eagle with wings outstretched. The daybed soft furnishings and frame features leaf, and fleuron ornament, with cabriole feet. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Sunset Sky
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, possibly 1873
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a cloudy sky at sunset or twilight. Puffy and darkly shaded clouds are visible at upper center above a wide, horizontal cloud bank at center. At lower center, another band of clouds is loosely sketched.
Printing roller
F. E. James Co., New York, New York, 1850–55
Wood and metal

Floral design with large and small blossoms and twisting leaves in random arrangement. Marginal notations are metal entirely.
La Bonne Maman
, 19th century
cotton Technique: relief printed (red ground) on plain weave
Textile

Design in white reserved on red ground fabric. Between floral motifs are medallions with scenes showing a mother and child.
Button
, 19th century
Ivory

1931-59-120-a: Circurlar button of ivory carved in relief in desi...
Sepulchral Monument of the Last Three Stuarts
, 1788–1793
Pencil, pen, wash, Chinese ink
Drawing

Vertical rectangle in shape with a dado below. A sarcophagus stands between Corinthian columns. It is supported by two crouching lions and decorated at the front with a representation of the coronation of the "Young Pretender" (most likely). Upon the cover are the royal and a bishop's insignia, a helmet and a wand upon a cloth. Behind the sarcophagus rises a pedestal upon which sits at left the Cardinal of York and lean, at right the Young Pretender upon the column shaft, upon which stands James III in front of a canopy, with the royal coat-of-arms. On the dado is written with crayon: "[JA] COMO III - CARLO III - ENRICO IX DUCA DI [YORK]."
La Terre
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784, 1758–64
Hand-colored etching and engraving on paper
Print

An ornamental hanging trophy design representing the element of earth with its attributes, including baskets of fruit and flowers, foliate branches, flowers, bunches of wheat, watering jug, sickle, scythe, rake, and other agricultural hand tools. The plate is titled and signed. The publisher's address has been partly rubbed out and the name ‘Mondhare' has been added later. The plate is hand colored.
Russian Dance
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866, 1835-1840
Pen and ink, brush and sepia and gray wash on paper
Drawing

Vignette of a woman standing, center, with her left hand resting on her hip. At left, a man dances. At right, a musician is seated.
LA MUSIQUE
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789, 1772–77
Crayon-manner etching in red ink on laid paper
Print

Design for an ornamental hanging trophy featuring objects associated music. The objects include a guitar or small stringed instrument, trumpets, French horn, musette or bagpipe, feathers, sheet music, ribbons, a triton, winged helmet, and a caduceus with snakes. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Embroidery sample
, ca. 1800
silk, linen, paper, bobbin net Technique: embroidered and appliquéd on cut supplementary warp pile (velvet); in paper envelope

Black velvet embroidered in border design with flower sprays and narrow bobbin lace applied.
Cloudy Sky and Chalet, Austria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1, 1868
Graphite and white gouache on tan laid paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
Drawing

Landscape and architecture sketch showing stacked views of a cloud-filled sky over a mountainous landscape, above, and below and oppositely oriented, an ornate, three-storied alpine chalet in Austria. The house is made of brick, wood, and slate and a detail of a window is included beside it.

Verso: Architectural sketches showing partial and complete views of houses in Austria or Germany near the Bavarian Alps. At center, a large, multi-storied home with two chimneys is prominently featured. Sketches above and at right are oriented to the right and show partial views of three houses, one that has exterior walls of shingled stone. At lower right, two church steeples with onion-shaped crowns are also included.
Looking Southwest from Olana, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1860–80
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the Hudson River Valley and the Catskill Mountains from the artist's property in Hudson, New York, known as Olana. In the foreground at right, a nearby group of trees on a hill are loosely rendered. Down this hill, in the middle distance, a wide portion of the Hudson River near the village of Catskill is visible. In the background, the southern portion of the Catskill Escarpment forms a rolling horizon. One light cloud hangs in the sky above at right.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain range--likely a section of the Catskill Escarpment--darkened in shadow. A tall, rounded peak is shown at right while another shorter, sharper peak is visible at left. A dark, loosely-rendered cloud hangs in the sky above the mountain at center.
Two Frieze Designs
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, 1663
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two ornamental friezes with scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate branches, fruit, festoons of leaves, ribbons, and dogs. The publisher's address is lettered below.
Landscape
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877, 1850-1875
Graphite, brush and watercolor on light green paper
Drawing

A man, carrying apparently colors and a child walks toward a boat. Trees are in the background. Some cows are shown.
Sampler
, 18th century
silk embroidery, linen foundation Technique: crewel, double running, satin, stem and drawnwork stitches on plain weave

Twenty-five squares with embroidery. Twenty in geometric patterns, two with butterflies, one with roses, one with flowers, and center one with thistle.
Plate 28, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren
Hans Vredeman de Vries, Dutch, 1527 - ca. 1606, 1564
Etching on laid paper
Print

Grotesque panel. In center, ovoid shows winged figure standing between a smoking brazier and a vase of flowers.
Project: decoration with escutcheons, (A) of a square, (B) of a horizontally oblong panel
, 1600–1625
Pen and ink, brush and (A) olive-grey watercolor, or (B) yellow and green watercolors, charcoal, on paper
Drawing

(A) The escutcheon is a lath and scrollwork frame of a horizontal ovoid. Between beams stand laterally, gaines of women with arm stump. On top sit three boys supporting a cloth with scalloped edges forming the background for the escutcheon. Festoons hang below. 
(B) Reverse: The scrollwork frame of a landscape is entwined with a lath frame. A cherub is below the landscape. Fruit is lying upon the upper edges of the frames. Fruit festoons hang below.
Drawing project: the elevation of a chest
, 1600–1650
Incised lines, pencil, pen, ink and yellow watercolor on paper
Drawing

Horizontal composition of a chest. The central section has a twelve cornered quatrefoil subdivided with spoks and a cherub in the center. There are plant ornaments between the spokes and in the corners of the section. The lateral sections have aediculae with cherubs. Pilasters are decorated with fruit bucnhes suspended from cherubim. Scale at the bottom left.
Stage Design, Palace and Porticoes from Outside
, 18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Different wings of palace connected by porticoes seen at an angle from right side in the foreground to left in the back. Renaissance forms.
Ornament Design with Hercules
Paul Androuet Du Cerceau, French, 1623/30 – 1710, 1669–93
Etching on laid paper
Print

Sixth plate from a series of six ornament plates featuring mythological scenes. A rectangular plaque with curved cut-out edges in the center, depicts Hercules fighting a lion. The plaque is surrounded by foliate scroll arabesques, featuring acanthus leaves, branches with leaves and berries. Below the plaque is a bearded mascaron with a shell on his head and acanthus leaf scrolls emanating from his hair and beard, with a plinth below. The plate is signed and numbered.
Paravent de quatre Pieds huit Pouces de haut
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Designs for a folding screen and for a movable chair. The screen is decorated with ornament motifs of baskets of flowers and arabesques, and carved with interlaced piastre and beads. The chair is covered in a striped textile and carved with fluting and spiral fluting detail. Between the chair and folding screen and plans and examples of the joinery. The plate is signed and numbered.
Waterfalls in the Chillo Valley, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 26, 1857
Graphite, brush and white gouache on tan paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of two waterfalls in the Chillo Valley of Ecuador, near the residence where the artist stayed at the time, the Hacienda Chillo (owned by the Aguirre family). In the foreground, trees, bushes, and other vegetation grow around the edge of a deep, steep declivity in the middle distance at center, into which a waterfall pours, creating a circular pool. The falling water and the mist it kicks up are highlighted in white gouache. In the background, an immense, lush, and steep hill is prominently visible at upper center, descending at left to a cleft through which another cascade falls. This waterfall is extremely tall and an is interrupted at two points on the way down. Lush mountain ridges extend out of frame in the background at left and right.
Design for Nine Circular Paintings in the Bathroom of the Aldini Villa, Montmorency, France
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1813
Pen and ink, brush and brown watercolor over pencil on rough grey paper.
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Nine roundels with number in brown ink and inscription in black chalk. Top row: Europa and bull. Caption: "Ratto deuropa." Narcissus looking at image in water; in background, Echo, at left, an animal at right. Caption: "gicinto." Leda and Swan. Caption: "Leda." Pan and Syrinx. He embraces tuft of reeds. The nymph is at back crying for help. Caption: "Pan e nimfa." Central row: Apollo pursuing Daphne. Caption: "Apollo Dafne." Diana, startled, looks up from seated Callisto. Caption: "diana calisto." A woman shown standing in shell pulled by dolphins. Caption: "Galatea o Teti." Venus shown kneeling in shell, two doves above. Caption: "Nasita di venere." Bottom row: Neptune riding over sea. Caption: "Nettuno."
Cartouche Design
Bellay, French, active from 1734, 18th century
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a cartouche or frame decorated with rococo motifs - ribbons, fleurons, c-scrolls, scrolling acanthus leaves, a cartouche and mask - with foliate branches on either side. The background is lined, and the center is blank.
Band
, 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin made continuous tape with bars added

Design of upright flowers set between scrolling leaves. One ornamental border.
Study of Figure with Raised Arm
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Three-quarter length study of standing woman. The woman is shown frontally in classical attire with raised left hand and hanging right arm.
Arabesque Ornament Designs
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s, late 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Four horizontal designs for ornamental friezes with repeating patterns featuring arabesque motifs. The designs include flowers, scrolling leaves, fleurons, leaves, rosettes, festoons of flowers, foliate branches, beads, birds, acanthus leaves, ribbons, roundel portraits, horns, vases of flowers, winged female terminal figures, arrows, wings, and wheat stalks. The plate is numbered and signed.
La Fraîcheur de la Soirée
Johann Gottlieb Prestel, German, 1739 - 1808, ca. 1780
Aquatint in sepia on paper
Print

A river in the foreground bordered by rocky inclines. Trees and cottages in background. A rude bridge, left; small boat with four figures in immediate foreground. Title and dedication on tab below.
Diana and Actaeon
Michael Hartwagner, German, d. 1775, 18th century
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Scene of the goddess Diana in a grotto surrounded by nymphs in various states of undress. Outside of the grotto, the hunter Actaeon, who has spied Diana bathing, is turned into a deer, indicated by the antlers sprouting from his head. At his feet, his dogs attack. The plate is signed.
Head of Christ
Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729, 1700–29
Red chalk on paper
Drawing

Sketchy view of a portrait of Jesus Christ, shown in profile, facing right.
Chambranle à Consoles
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Elevation of a console frame. Either side has a bracket with a vertical bead course and a ram's head on top; across the top shelf is a guilloche of branches with leaves. Below the elevation is a scale bar of four French feet ("4 Pieds"). The profile of the console brackets is on the right of the plate; the cross section of the top shelf is at the top of the plate. The plate is signed and numbered, although the lettering of the plate is not evident in the crease of the album.
Decorative Studies after the Barberini Collection
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 
Pen and brown ink, brush and sepia wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Three friezes from the Barberini Collection: eagle with gharland and masks, putto with gharland, tritone with naiade and Venus; Loggia.
Design for a Painted Ceiling and the Decoration of a Short Wall Illustrating the Seasons
, 1630–50
Black and red chalk, pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
Drawing

Partial view of wall decoration.  In the middle is intended a painted view in a garden atrium.  The opening is bordered above by an overdoor with two alternative suggestions united to one whole.  At left: an escutcheon, with a rectangular frame for a picture, is carried by putti; at right: a scrollwork frame with a portrait of a victorious general is carried by a putto holding in his outside arm a shield with a crowned double-headed eagle.  Above, in the center, is a part of a putto leaning his hand upon a frame, which is intended to have a counterpart "Autumn," "Summer," "Winter," sit upon clouds above the wall decoration.  "Saturnus" flies toward "Summer" from the ovoidal scrollwork frame in the middle of the ceiling.  A child with a basket kneels in the corner at right.  At center, the ovoidal frame is supported laterally by pilasters of a kind, showing in the middle niches with female statues. Winged armless mermaids are shown laterally.  Beside the pilaster at right sit women with wreathes and more children with vessels filled with flowers.  The short wall opposite the shown one is faced by Cybele in her chariot drawn by lions and receiving fruits offered by a girl.  A woman with a vine is at her other side.  A woman carrying birds on a stick is beside the pilaster on the other long side.  At right of it a child extending his arm toward a fruit basket carried by another child, sits upon the mermaid.
Design for a Book Binding
Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961, ca. 1887–1903
Brush and gouache on paper
Drawing

On brown-orange ground, medallion with arabesques, hearts, and C-curves in red, light green, and orange. Upper left and lower left smaller round floral medallions.
Virgin and Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820-1850
Pen and bistre ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

The full-length figure of the Virgin (?) is seated within a niche. The nude figure of the Child seated at her feet, left. Three lines of inscription below framing line.
Man
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1876–1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a male figure wearing a bicorn hat.
Virgin in Niche, Ecclesiastical Figures
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Pen and ink, black chalk, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Standing Virgin holding Child in arms on raised pedestal, all in semi-circular niche in background. Foreground: right side two ecclesiastical figures in copes and mitres, one holding a papal cross; left side two indistinct figures, one with halo.
Study of stag head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919, ca. 1900
Graphite on paper
Drawing

A sketch of a stag head and skull.
PROFIL de la Grote du Chasteau de Meudon
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Architectural elevation and part section of a grotto at the castle of Meudon, France, featuring arches, sculptures in niches, windows, doors, columns, pilasters, and balustrades. A scale below. The plate is titled and signed.
Portrait of Johan Huydecopper ( -1661)
Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch, 1698 - 1780, 1760
Engraving on paper
Print

Half-length portrait in three-quarter view. Sitter turned towards right.
Four Mask (Mascaron) Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647, 1648
Etching on laid paper
Print

Four designs for grotesque masks (mascarons), including a satyr and others with fantastical features, male faces (beards, horns, shells, and pointed ears). The plate is numbered.
Ornament Designs
Pierre Gandin, French, active 15??-16??, early 17th century
Etching on paper
Print

A rectangular plate with ornaments or jewelry patterns in silhouette featuring c-scrolls, fleurons, and dots. The plate is numbered and signed.
Dazzling Meteor over Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 1863 and 1862
Graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a meteor streaking across the night sky, as seen from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. In the foreground, a wooded slope at left descends towards the center, where the top of another tree is shown. Low clouds backdrop these forms. Visible in the sky at center, a distinct ball with a streaking tail--that is, a meteor--flies across the sky from left to right. Other puffy clouds are vaguely visible at upper right.

Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a large, distant, and billowing cloud bank, likely over the Hudson River Valley. Stretching across the center of the composition, the cloud's puffy, rounded forms ascend to the right, leading to a layered, billowing summit of clouds at far right. At lower left, another cloud--or possibly the surface of a river--is included.
Fragment
, 18th–19th century
cotton Technique: resist printed on plain weave

Design shows a woman in front of a tree with a small dog. A man holding his hat looks on. To the left is a sundial. Design is in white on a red ground.
Purese Volcano seen from Popayan, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 9, 1853
Graphite on white wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing views of the volcano Purese from the city of Popoyan, Columbia. Features two drawings of the same smoking peak--at center lower right and center upper left. In both illustrations, smoke rises from the rugged and craggy crater rim. No surrounding landscape visible.
Design for a Cartouche
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, ca. 1900
Photomechanical print
Bound print

Page with a design for a cartouche comprised of a grotesque creature's body atop a plinth; this is set within a landscape with foods of the harvest, mascarons, shells, and branches.The plate is signed and lettered (the plate number, 4, is absent).
Design for a Comb
, 1820
Crayon, pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Seventeen tines springing from a metal band. The crest boarder is composed of round diamonds in various sizes. Six drop-shaped stones above, in the intervals between the circles, forming a row below the scehem of hte decoration. Inside the circles are blossoms.
Design for a Vertical Panel of Ornament
Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on white laid paper
Print

Sheet of vertical arabesque design featuring ancient-inspired ornament motifs including a putto with a bow and arrow, fruiting trees, a sphynx, doves, entwined snakes, garlands, scrolls, and grapevines.
Sketch of Man Seated in Armchair
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, ca. 1878
Graphite on grey paper
Drawing

Man seated in an armchair, facing frontally, his legs crossed. His right hand repeated, upper left. His left elbow on a table, and left hand at his chest.
Stage Design: Gallery in a Palace
, ca. 1750
Pen and black ink, brush and wash on laid paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle showing a view into an elaborately decorated hall with several recesses,a painted dome. Mirrors and high backed chairs line each wall.