biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for a Chimneypiece
, 1780–1800
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Laterally are stripes projecting from the inner frame and the pilaster strips outside. The strips have together with an upper one the shape of a part of a frame. They show colored marble and are framed below laterally and above by moldings. Brackets support the entablature. A part of a frieze is between the brackets. In the center is an oblong in front of the entire upper part, below the upper moldings of the entablature. It is decorated with a displaced eagle standing upon two crossed torches, below is a festoon. Shadow, background, base line, scale as in 1938-88-8209. The plans are below. Below are a framing line and a stripe, traces of the first one are at the other edges.
Six Designs for Altars
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692, 1690
Etching on paper
Print

Six designs for ecclesiastical altars featuring paintings and sculptures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, crosses, and angels, with pilasters, stairs, sculpted pediments, scrolling leaves, friezes, palm leaves, clouds, mascarons (masks), coffering, and sculpted moldings. There is a praying figure next to the upper right design. There are scales below most of the designs. The plate is signed and numbered.
Ciboire. Encensoir.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a ciborium and incense burner, and a small cup, in metal. The ciborium on the left has a cross on top of its arched lid, which is decorated with lancet leaves, while the bowl of the vessel features oak leaves. The ciborium has a tall column, which is fluted and draped with garland, while the foot is ornamented with bound flowers and leaves. The incense burner at right is ornamented with floral, spiral fluting, bead course, lancet leaf, and gadrooning decoration. Between the ciborium and incense burner is a shallow bowl (likely a paten, used, along with the ciborium, to carry the host of the eucharist), whose lancet leaf pattern mirrors that of the lid of the ciborium and the base of the incense burner. The plate is signed and numbered.
Stage Design, Interior of Ruined Renaissance Palace
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872, early 19th century
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on laid paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of ruined palace with outlook through three archways into hilly landscapes and architectural ruins.
Sofa
, 19th century
wood

Sloping back divided into three sections, curved at ends; top rail scrolled.  Carved arms, with padded arm rests, in form of dolphin with curled tail joining back and head resting on corner blocks carved with lotus leaves.  Four fronts in form of lion legs with paw feet; two plain square back legs curved outward; casters added.  Upholstered in fabric of classical wreath and foliate pattern. (1926-22-352 a/f in Textiles Department)
Ornamental Panel Design
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, ca. 1651
Etching on laid paper
Print

Ornamental panel design with a mascaron (mask) in the center framed by scrolling leaves, fruit, garland of leaves, acanthus leaves, foliate branches, draped textiles, putti, a dragon, a male figure, an eagle, and festoons of leaves and fruit, within a carved frame. The two sides of the panel have different designs.
Maison de Mr. Clemont à Etampe, Restauré sur les Dessins de Mr. Lefevre jeune Architecte
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural print with two exterior elevations, an interior sectional view, two floorplans, and a general plan for a house featuring friezes, columns, telamons (atlantids), and rosettes. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Sidewall
, ca. 1680
Leather, stamped, silvered, painted

Black field, diapered scrollwork, with sprays of flowers and foliage.
Handkerchief
, ca. 1847
cotton Technique: printed on plain weave

Commemorative handkerchief printed in honor of Marshall Bugeaud, the leading figure in the French conquest of Algiers from 1841-1847. In the center a portrait of Marshall Bugeaud and four of his generals. In the corners are scenes from the battles. Printed in red and brown on white.
Juno, from the Three Goddesses
Hendrik Goltzius, Netherlandish, 1558 – 1617, ca. 1595
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Juno, half-length, wearing a crown and holding a sceptre, accompanied by a peacock at right
Title Page
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for an altar at center with a crowned cartouche in front of crossed glafs, branches, helmets and fasces, above which is a radiating mascaron. On either side of the plate is a trophy comprised of fasces, helmet, shield, and flags. The plate is signed and numbered.
Soldiers' Uniforms
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866, 1830–1840
Pen and black ink, brush and brown and black wash on paper
Drawing

Six pairs of soldiers in two ranges. Inscribed below each, left to right: "Officiers de hussards Grand / Petite tenue"; "Officiers d'Infanterie"; "Officiers de Dragons"; "Lanciers"; "Clère de / et 2 class / Marine"; "Colonel et lieutenant / d'Infanterie légère".
Iztaccihuatl from Miraflores, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1892
Graphite on light brown wove paper
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the volcano Iztaccihuatl from the town of Miraflores in Mexico. In the distance at left, the craggy, undulating, and snow-capped summit of Iztaccihuatl is shown with its sharp, northern peak at far left and its rounded peak at center left. A low bank of clouds intercedes in the middle distance between the mountain and a heavily wooded hill at lower right.
Portrait of Torqato Tasso (1544-1595)
Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Italian, 1734 - 1787, ca. 1780
Engraving on paper
Print

Half-length portrait in three-quarter view towards left. Tasso has a laurel wreath on his head. His body covered with a drapery held together by a pin on his left shoulder. The portrait inserted into an oval frame as a medallion is supported by an inscribed pedestal.
Aurora, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1860
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of the aurora borealis over Frenchman Bay and Bald Porcupine Island off the coast of Mt. Desert Island, Maine, near the city of Bar Harbor. In the foreground at right, the nearby terrain is loosely sketched. In the middle distance, a sailboat floats on the waters of the bay in front of a dark, hilly island known as Bald Porcupine Island. Above, dark clouds are backlit by a glowing sky, suggesting the luminous aura of the northern lights.
FONTAINE DE LA RUË AU MARAIS / FONTAINE DE LA PORTE ST. GERMAIN / FONTAINE ST. OVIDE
Gabriel Perelle, French, 1604–1677, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Three fountains decorated with classical motifs, each façade features pilasters, friezes, and surmounted by pediments. The ornament includes shells, dolphins, mascarons (masks), a vase, and fluting. Taps in the lower center of each fountain. A scale below each design. Each fountain is titled.
Pavilion in a park
, ca. 1625–50
Pen and brown ink with gray wash and traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. The pavilion has the general shape of a triumphal arch, with one entrance on each side. The central room has a circular opening instead of a roof. Above is a terrace bordered by balustrades, with statues at the protruding corners, six of which are drawn: three representing warriors, one that seems to be a figure of the Italian comedy, with colors; two others. Upon the balustrade are two men; one of them bears a mask. Through the arch, a view of a structure with a large niche, in front of which stands a statue, evidently of "POSEIDON." The floor of the whole place is paved. Framing line.
Woman
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1876
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a female figure with a violin tucked under her chin.
Console Table
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Elevation of a table with alternative suggestions. At left, the table is supported by two cornucopia; at right, a gaine with a lion head.
French Farmyard
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1867
Brush and oil paint on wood panel
Painting

Vertical view of a stone wall with gate through which trees are seen.  In foreground, haystack, hen and chicks, and baby in a frame mounted on wheels.
Spoon
Massat Freres, 19th century
silver
spoon

Oval bowl and partly panelled and twisted rattail stem, terminating in a patera supporting an oval crusher terminal.
Elevation and Plan of a Carriage Entrance
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1745
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for the doors of a carriage entrance. The doors are decorated with ornament motifs including ironwork, rocaille elements, and a mascaron clasp. The plate is numbered but not signed.
Decorative door boss and nail
, ca. 1550–1700
Steel-plated wrought iron

Flat, square mount with wrought line to form design with quadrants, each with projecting cusps and two barbs forming a leaf-like pattern. Grooved pyramidal nail heads on a square shank.
Saint Jerome
Lorenzo Loli, Italian, 1612 - 1691, ca. 1675
Etching on paper
Print

St. jerome is shown seated in prayer, resting his head on his left forearm which is supported by a stone block. Two seraphs, upper left, and his lion below.
Sidewall
, ca. 1800
Block printed on handmade paper

Two vertical rectangles of joined sheets of paper, with one similar and one identical unit of decoration. In the bottom half of each, a pink and green rose wreath, enclosing a diagonally set square in which is a lyre; a palmette at each corner, outside the wreath. In the upper half, a Pompeian framework composed of urns, hanging musical instruments and drapery swags, enclosing grisaille figure groups: a) woman with lyre, attended by putto; b) woman putting a wreath upon a bust of Voltaire, attended by a putto.
LE CHÂTEAU DE MARLY du côté des Jardins
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, 1676–1703
Etching on laid paper
Print

Birds-eye view of the chateau of Marly from the garden, with its fountains, basins, and pavilions, with trees in the background. In the foreground and throughout the levelled paths, figures, horseman, and horse-drawn carriages. Birds and a small boat in the larger basin. The plate is titled.
The Gorge of the Niagara River, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1856 or 1858
Graphite and oxidizing white gouache on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the Gorge of the Niagara River and the Suspension Bridge, as seem looking upstream from a position north of the Bridge. The river's frothing waters churn violently as they are bottlen-necked by the steep, rocky walls of the gorge--visible flanking the water at left and right. The turbulent surf kicks up specks of foam, articulated in white gouache. Visible in the middle distance at center, a suspension bridge (commonly known simply as "The Suspension Bridge") traverses the span of the gorge, as a train, spewing exhaust, travels leftward on the upper level of the bridge, while a horse-drawn carriage is included on the lower level. One pair of the bridge's towers are shown perched atop the gorge's cliffs at right. In the background, the steep, wooded bank of the Niagara River is visible.
Ornament Panel Design
Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679, 1660–1716
Engraving and etching on paper
Print

Ornament panel design with a central cartouche of three women with a spilling jug of water and a lyre, framed by foliate scrolls, festoons of leaves, shells, rosettes, fleurons, an acorn, mask (mascaron), putti playing tambourines, cornucopia of fruit and flowers, ribbons, and satyr/fauns. The plate is numbered.
Design for Illuminated Initial "F"
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, ca. 1695
Pen and black ink, brush and white gouache (corrections), green watercolor on paper, framing lines in pen and black ink, squared
Drawing

Figures of river god and four nymphs on a rock at the base of which a bull crouches.  The letter F is shown in reverse at the center of figural grouping.
Autres Compartimens et Entrelas à l’usage des Tableaux
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791, 1763
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Four designs for frames, two oval frames above and two vertical portrait frames below with small sections of variations of the design set within, decorated with neoclassical ornament and motifs. The moldings feature repeating patterns with interlacing, roundels, and rosettes. The frames are draped with festoons of ribbons and laurel leaves and cornucopia. The lower frames feature central cartouches with a lion to the left and a profile portrait to the right, with a flame and quiver of arrows. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Pleated fan
, late 19th century
Silk leaf painted with gouache, mother-of-pearl sticks, silk tassel

Pleated fan. Leaf and obverse are black taffeta painted with scene of a party under trees with a standing young couple in front of a seated man in the foreground. Reverse is plain. Sticks and guards are plain dark-colored mother-of-pearl with fancy black silk tassel.
Ornament Design
Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711, ca.1670–ca.1700
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

An ornament design featuring a winged male figure as a terminal, with scrolling foliage, acanthus leaves, fleurons, rosettes, and a dragon fighting a dog. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for a Canopy Bed in the Turkish Style with Alternate Suggestion in the Italian Style
Matthew Liard, English, ca. 1736–1782, ca. 1765
Etching on white laid paper
Print

A hybrid bed designed in "Turkish" style on the left half and in "Italian" style on the right half.
The Yellow Jacket
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1879
Brush and oil paint on canvas
Painting

Vertical view of a young woman, dressed in blue skirt, yellow jacket, white jabot and black hat, standing under a branch of an apple tree in bloom and smelling a cluster of blossoms. Beyond, to left, another tree in blossom; woods in distance.
Paddle Steamer at Dusk
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1853 or 1857
Brush and oil on dark brown paperboard
drawing

Seascape sketch showing a paddle steamer on choppy seas at dusk, likely off the coast of Colombia or Ecuador. Viewed slightly obliquely at center, the steamer kicks up frothing, white water as its smokestack disseminates a stream of black smoke from its glowing orifice. The large paddle wheel and several illuminated windows are also visible. In the background, the atmosphere lightens near the wavy horizon. At upper right, several stars are visible, including those that make up the Southern Cross.
Memorial Panel Depicting Painting and Music
Bernard Picart, 1673–1733, 1732
Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and white gouache, black chalk
Drawing

A tablet contains an imaginative picture frame in the central park. It is flanked by pilasters, in front of which the statues of "Painting" and "Music" stand. Below, in the center, is an escutcheon, showing a representation of "Cybele"; it is supported by "Saturnus" and "Death," Above the entablature is an escutcheon with Cupid, flanked by a boar and dogs, at left, and a putto upon a dolphin, and other animals, at right. Colored background, framing line.
Design for an Illusionistic Wall Decoration, with a King Accompanied by Soldiers
Gaetano Lazzara, Italian, d. ca. 1730, 1703
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper
Drawing

Left half of an architectural interior is shown. View through a kind of proscenium with a caryatid in an apse. It has a basement with window grates. The main floor has the shape of an arcade with balconies with screens. Three steps lead into the center to a platform upon which twisted columns, three in a row, support an arch. Shown is "Ahasverus," accompanied by soldiers, stretching out his arms towards "Esther," kneeling. The mace is in his right hand. Framing line, below, at left. Below is the scale: "Canna."
Study for a procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1895–1898
Black pastel crayon, graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch of male and female figures in procession through an arcade with columns and pedestals. Similar to -b, shown to the group -16, inclusive. Parts of the architecture are sketched.
Fighting Horses, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, ca. 1575
Engraving on paper
Print

Two horses fight with each other; a third one lies on the ground. Three are running. Bottom margin, similar -92: "Prescia venturae sic tempestatis equorum," etc.
"Achille reconnu par Ulysse"
Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818, ca. 1810
cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
Textile

Four scenes (two incomplete) illustrating the legend of Achilles before the battle at Troy. 
(Ullysses knew Achilles was disguised as a woman at the court of Lycomedes. Ulysses entered the court as a merchant and regonized Achilles when the latter selected waepons rather than embroidery or fabric.)
In black on white.
Textile
Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763, 1760–80
cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave foundation Label: cotton, printed by engraved copper plate

Length of printed cotton with a large scale design of curving bamboo-like stems with pineapples and feathers as foliage, in blue on a white ground.
L'ENJOLEUR
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721, 1723-1735
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Vignette of a young couple in fancy costume in a landscape; the man holds an ivy-wound stick and the hand of the woman, and appears to be dancing. The figures are surrounded by ornamentation, including drapery, scrolls, branches, a bouquet of flowers, and acanthus leaves. The plate is signed.
Flounce
, 19th century
silk Technique: bobbin lace, white silk

Flounce with fine "point de Paris" mesh and border of leaf festoons.
Nude Study
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on waxed paper
Drawing

Boy reclining, arms over head, the right leg bent all the way at the knee.
Philosopher
Gilbert Tompkins, New York, NY, USA, 1902
Pencil on cream paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Three-quarter length figure of a bearded man, turned toward the left. He is heavily draped, including a hood-like covering over his head. His left hand is raised to his head in gesture of deep thought. signed, lower right.
Apron
, early 18th century
silk on silk foundation, silver metallic thread Technique: satin, couching and three variations of padded couching stitches on taffeta

Short wide apron of white embroidered in silver thread, rose, violet and white. Design is a large central flower spray of carnation and lily with leaves in silver thread. Corner design of cornucopia with sprays of tulips and lilies. Bottom and sides have a subtle scallops bordered in a sawtooth pattern in silver thread.
The Roman Emperor Vitellius (69), in escutcheon
Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792, 1750-1760
Engraving with etching on paper
Print

Shown in profile and slightly fro mthe back, galloping toward right. In the middle ground. The emperor eating in a tent; he has a woman and children killed; soldiers drag him and throw him into the Tiber. Fountains are included in the lateral framings.
Design for Door, from "Placarts Ou Ornemens"
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, ca. 1660
Etching on paper
Print

A = Jombert 30, 2. B = J. 30, 3. C: SOmewhat less than a left and a right half of square ceilings are shown, separated by a stripe with the scale; ''6 Piez''. At left: oblong frame, with the Dove and a glory of angels. At right: a central medallion with a saint carried by angels to heaven. In the bottoms of the frames: ''Ioannes le Pautre Inuenit et Fecit'' and ''Iollain excudit cum Priuilegio Regis Christianis[simi].''
console table
, 1850–60
Wood

Light wood console table, the top (b) with scalloped front edge, sitting on a three-legged base (a). The legs are curvilinear bent wood and looped under with added curved bent wood pieces.
Design for a necklace
Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794, ca. 1765
Black crayon. Paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. !!! The left side, partly only sketched. Knots similar to those in -6246, are connected by branches with blossoms and leaves. From the bigger central know a drop-like diamond is hanging. Two chains composed of the same motifs, are hanging supporting the pendant. (sketched); on top a knot, three hanging drops.
Portrait of Hugo Latimer
Richard Houston, Irish, active in England, 1721 - 1755, ca. 1750-1760
Mezzotint on paper
Print

Bust length portrait, in frontal view of an elderly man wearing ecclesiastic hat and coat. In an oval frame, turned slightly toward right.
Pillow cover
, 17th century
silk on linen Technique: embroidery

White linen with two inch border or stylistic leaf and scroll pattern in red silk. Nine silk buttons - barrel type.
Fragment
, 16th century
linen Technique: grid of withdrawn element with needle lace (reticella style)

Panel in a design of crossing diagonal lines with circles at the intersection.
Peasant's Brawl
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550, 1547
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

9 in a series of 10 plates
Print
, 18th century
Black ink and watercolors on paper

Horizontal strip: boar hunt. At left, a hunter stands behind tree as a boar charges toward him. To the right: a fallen tree, a boar, hound, and horseman. The colors are green, brown, dull yellow, and red.
Decorated Capital Letter C
Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752, ca. 1715
Engraving on paper
Print

Letter C before the kneeling Pope St. Vincent;  the anchor is shown at left, a lamb at right.
Costume Design: A Girl in Fantastical Attire for a Ballet
, ca. 1720
Lead pencil on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. A girl is shown in profile, moving toward left. She wears a large hat, and her overcoat's sleeves have the same shape of those of the eartly fifteenth century. She carries in her left hand what seemingly is a halberd.
Cap streamers
, early 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style

Cap streamer  with a design of flowers, leaves and pomegranates. Irregularly scalloped edge and rectangular ends.
Unterschiedlich Augspurgische Goldschmidts Arbeit, "Autumnus", Plate 3
Abraham Drentwet, German, 1647 – 1727, 1721–40
Engraving
Print

Vertical rectangle. A wall with a frame upper-half, and a tapestry held by putti, lower half. In front of the tapestry, a table, with three urns on it (two as pitchers). The upper frame has three zodiacal signs, a table with fruit on it; a landscape beyond. Below, the title and artists' and publisher's names.
Band
, mid- 16th–17th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, continuous braid-like

Venetian-style pattern of a central diamond with heavy openwork brides.
Jupiter and Hebe, Apollo and Terspsichore.
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1815
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on cream laid paper
Drawing

Decorative project with octagonal design. Head of eagle shown below left knee of Jupiter. Apollo plays lyre Terpsichore with tambourine.
Tailpiece
Homer Wayland Colby, American, 1874–1950, ca. 1910
Pen and ink on illustration board
Drawing

A design inclduing a shield, bearing the bust-length figure of a man in armor, a gun, banderole.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: supplementary warp, cut and uncut, in plain weave foundation

Fragment made up of several small pieces sewn together.
Fragment
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Binche style)

Binche-style fragment with a Binche ground in a design of floral and ribbon wreaths.
Pattern with uncompleted lace
, late 19th century
paper, wool, linen Technique: needle lace with ground of loop and twist with loop & twist return

Outlining thread is couched on pattern in design of a rose with bud and leaf, and a small five-petalled flower with leaves.