biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for the Pedestal and Base of a Pillar in a Church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

The lower pedestal is high rectangular with a low base, the height of which is indicated as "3/4"; so is that of the fluted frieze. Laterally are fluted pillars with masks instead of capitals. For the inside of the framed panel a filling with marble seems to be intended. The upper pedestal is broad rectangular. In its panel are two sitting putti with a book. The height of its plinth and of its entablature is given as "5", so is its upper width. The height of the lower pedestal is "7". Usual background.
Title Page
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a canopy bed (side view) with the posts bending inwards to support a smaller crown canopy (baldachin) above, topped with feather finials. The bed curtains are drawn back and tied to the posts with ropes. The bed linen and textiles are decorated with flowers, cornucopia, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The headboard features a crown of flowers in the center and is carved with rosettes and ornaments. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. A scale below.
Doily
, early 19th century
cotton, glass beads Technique: embroidery

Rectangular white cotton length hemstitched and fringed on all fours sides. Narrow border design of tiny flowers in blue, pink and green beads. Two short ends have design of stylized blossoming vine in red, blue, yellow and green. Tiny flowers scattered over ground.
Elevation d'une Porte à placard à un vanteau
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Elevation of a closet with a single door. The door is decorated with rosettes and leaf garland with ribbon; the above door paneling features an oval medallion with script, draped with garland, and surrounded by putti. The plate is signed.
Designs for a Mantelpiece
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1785–1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

The left sides are shown. The lateral designs have consoles on top of the lateral pilaster strips. It shows a branch rising from a vase in the left design. It is ornamented in the right one. The left design shows in the center of the frieze a projecting tablet with a festoon. Central design: the pilaster strip is decorated as in the left design. Above it is a square with a rosette. Rinceaux decorate the frieze. Colored background.
Monument of King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Left row, above: the setting is as in 1938-88-1292 right. The sarcophagus is supported upon a base by two supports; it has the shape of a tub, and a pediment. Behind it is the straight wall, supporting above it a pedestal with the kneeling figure, and two female allegories sitting beside. Below: the right framing of the niche is indicated. Below is a pedestal with figures at he front and a putto sitting upon its upper edge. Upon it stands the sarcophagus covered partly by a cloth. Above is a sitting female allegory with the oval medallion, and a kneeling one supporting the crown above it (a variation of 1938-88-1296 with the executed entablature. Below is a pedestal with a relief at the front. The tub-like sarcophagus is supported by two crouching lions. Upon its cover stand two female allegories, leaning upon an oval medallion, which stands upon a trophy of arms, and supporting with their outside hands shields. Below, horizontally, the setting with the canopy is a variation of 1938-88-1292 left, the monument of left row above, with the elimination of the zone of the pediment. Only the right column is drawn, the entablature sketched.
Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1793
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

A crowning group similar to those in 1938-88-1302, 1938-88-1311, 1938-88-1318. The medallion with the bust portrait is supported jointly by the women and the angel. At right stands the eagle. Crouching outside are at left the bull and at right the lion.
Project for a Ceiling
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844, ca. 1800
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

A flying woman raises an urn with her right arm, the left upon a book which is also supported by a putto. A fire is burning in the bowl.
Piedestal pour figure equestre
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a pedestal for an equestrian statue decorated with a lion head and garland, fluting, egg and dart, garland hanging from o-rings, rosettes, crossed branches around faux script, and bound leaf. The plate is signed.
Design for a Carriage Body
Louis Van Nerven, Dutch, active ca. 1750, 1755–69
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Design for the body of a carriage with three windows decorated with military emblems, putti and rocaille ornament topped with a trophy of arms and armor (armor and spears, and quivers of arrows). The ornament includes festoons of flowers and leaves, scrolling leaves, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), cartouches, shells, an eagle, and putti. The door panels feature female figures dressed in armor with putti. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Ships in the North, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June–July 1859
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Seascape sketches showing views of ships in the waters off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The composition is divided into two scenes--one at lower right and another comprising the upper portion of the leaf. In the upper half, a large steamship is viewed in left profile as its smoke stack spews white steam, and its sails are raised. A smaller, green ship two masts is situated beside it at left and is viewed obliquely from the rear. In the foreground at center, a rowboat with two figures is shown in right profile. In the background, a distant steamship appears as a dot on the horizon while its smoke plume wafts and disseminates in the atmosphere above it. Above, blue sky is somewhat visible through hazy clouds. The second view in the lower right corner possibly shows that same, distant steamship, whose smoke plume now drifts dramatically to the left. The sea and sky alike are rendered in tones of brownish-gray.
The Acropolis at Sunrise, Athens
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1869
Oil and graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the Acropolis and the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, from the south at sunrise. In the foreground, columns and other ruins or buildings are loosely rendered within lush, rolling terrain that ascends to the Acropolis in the middle distance. A relatively flat plateau with sheer cliffs, the Acropolis hosts the ruinous Parthenon, as both catch the golden-pink light of the rising sun. In the background at left, a purple mountain range is colored pink by the sunrise, which renders the sky a dim shade of orange-blue.
Baby Rattle
, 18th century
silver, mother-of-pearl
rattle

Open cage formed of eight silver filigree straps featuring delicate scroll and leaf motifs on each, straps attached to ball above, which rotates and slides up and down central post; attached to base of cage is circular, filigree frame, beneath which hang 6 bells on links (five bells are unadorned; a sixth, which is evidently a replacement, features leaf motifs); 6 structural spokes extend inward from links to ring attached to central post; small domed disc with filigree work situated above cage, which also rotates and slides up and down post; stationary ball near bottom of post prevents cage from sliding further down; attached to fixed ball and post is a flat pearl handle with incised star on front and reverse.
Title Page
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1740–68
Etching and engraving on paper
Bound print

Upright frame design for a mirror or painting, topped with wings and figures of putti holding a garland. At left and right, armorial trophies. Below, a mask of a dog or lion.
Vigilance
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1816
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Woman shown seated upon bed and reading book. Putto lights lamp, another restrains crane.
Fragment
, 4th–5th century
Warp; S-spun linen. Wefts; S-apun linen, S-spun wool, Z-spun wool. Technique: slit tapestry weave.

Fragment with a bust of a man.
A bishop saint pointing to a model city, with other figures, after a drawing by Guercino
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, 1764
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

The old man, with a beard and heavy cloak st ands at left, pointing to the model of the town held by the boy. The woman, behind right, looks down, her cheek to her hand. The boy, center, has his back to the observer.
Tabouret et Banquette
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Designs for a stool and a bench, decorated with striped textiles and carved ornament motifs including fluting, interlaced piastre, and bead. Around the stool and bench are plans and details of the carving. The plate is signed and numbered.
Designs for Flowers: Chinese Carnation, Regency Carnation, Queen’s Wreath
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Designs for flowers with their leaves, numbered with a legend below: Chinese carnation, regency carnation, and queen's wreath. The plate is numbered and signed.
Four Cartouche Designs
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692, ca. 1690
Etching on paper
Print

Four cartouche designs. The central cartouche features the sculpted bust of the French king Louis XIV on a plinth bearing the royal coat of arms, and palm leaves, flanked by two seated figures in Classical military dress, with spears, flags, arms and two male figures representing the vanquished prisoners. The other cartouches feature mascarons (masks), scrolling leaves, a roundel, drapery, shells, trident, clouds, angels, dolphins, coral, and palm leaves. The plate is signed.
Design for a Clock, from "Six Tables Grecques Pendules"
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1780
Etching on paper
Print

The dial is inserted in a piece of a kind of attic, upon which two seated girls flank a pedestal with a two-handled vase. A capital upside down and a calyx form the stand.
Achilles Taught by Centaur Chiron How to Play Lyre
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on light blue paper
Drawing

At left, sea with Thetis and her companions. At right, Chiron and lad in grotto.
Designs After Architecture
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Page printed with two plates (each divided into two) depicting architecture fragments, including pediments, facades, vases, and a gate. Both plates are numbered, neither are signed.
Handscreen
, early 19th century
Block-printed paper leaf with applied lithograph, turned wood handle

Handscreen with hexagonal leaf, block printed with geometric designs in green, black and white. Circular lithograph applied in the center, with a scene of a lighthouse at night, with sailboats, workers, and a full moon. Reverse: circular lithograph of a cherub on a lion's back, surrounded by block-printed geometric borders in green and white.
Wall Elevation
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Wall Elevation.
Sketch for a Painting: Abduction of a Child
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1825-1850
Pen and brown ink on paper
Drawing

A figure with a small child flees in a classical landscape. At left, another figure crouches over a child. Two seraphs in the sky and a large setting sun. Ink framing line.
VEÜE GENERALE DE CHANTILLY du côté de l’Entrée
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, 1680–1703
Etching on laid paper
Print

Bird's eye view of the chateau of Chantilly with its gardens, fountains, basins, and surrounding landscape. Figures within the grounds and animals in the foreground. The plate is titled.
Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural print illustrating a house with two exterior elevations and four floor plans. The house features neoclassical motifs, columns, balustrades, and a pediment. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Mt. Hor from Arabah, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February 22, 1868
Graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of Mt. Hor in the Mountains of Edom, viewed from the nearby Plains of Arabah. Flat terrain extends from foreground to middle distance, where the mountains begin to rise. Rugged mountain ridges successively ascend as the extend into the distance. The sharp peak of Mt. Hor is visible at upper center. 

Verso: Landscape sketch of the mountains of Edom at Mt. Hor from the nearby plain known as Wadi Arabah. Bushes and weeds grow on flat terrain that extends from foreground to middle distance. Rocky, rugged mountains rise in middle distance and become successively taller as they extend into the background. Peak of Mt. Hor visible at right.
Box
, ca. 1760
chased, engraved and partially nielloed and gilt raised and cast silver

Oval box with hinged cover; niello decoration, on box alternating panels with trophies and architectural ornament on top. Victory presenting a scroll to a warrior, on bottom, trophies, flags and scrolls; gilt lined.
Sketch of Seated Woman
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, ca. 1880
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Seated woman facing frontally with her right hand on a book in her lap and her left hand on the arm of the chair. Head turned slightly to left. Verso: A hand marking a page in a book.
Design for a Ceiling
, early 17th century
Pen and ink on paper, sepia and blue watercolor on paper
Drawing

Design for a ceiling over a square comparetment, representing a dome with large oculus and large lunettes on each side. Spandrels support crouching atlantid figures. Oculus and lunettes filled with figures in clouds.
Frame
, ca. 1820
Cast and blackened bronze

Vertical rectangular frame decorated with lotus and palmette motifs.
Milk Jug
Wallendorf Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1764, ca. 1800
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
jug

Cylindrical with rounded shoulder; short spout; flat strap handle, rectangular, with simulated screw heads; cover cylindrical, with rectangular strap handle, and pierced with three round openings. Overglaze polychrome decorations of roses and other flowers. Smaller pendant to 1936-13-35.
Stage Design, Palace Court with Stairs
, early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash on laid paper, laid down; verso: black chalk
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Court in palace with porticoes. Verso: Figures, one seated and one crawling.
Button
, 1845–55
steel

1931-59-306-a: circular, flat button with ornament of crossed flo...
Handscreen
, 18th century
Painted paper leaf, turned wood handle

Handscreen with a hand-painted paper leaf.  Obverse: man and woman in landscape. Reverse: building with tower in landscape. Turned wood handle.
Original Drawing, Cahier VII, plate 1
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1770–96
Pen and black ink, brush and wash on greenish laid paper
Drawing

Profile view and plan of canopied bed with drapery and female bust decorating post.
Sarcophagi
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1780
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Two left halves of the elevation are shown. At left: a bathtub form supported by gaines with heads as capitals. At right: shown from the inside of the supports at left: THey have the shape of balusters, upon which sphinxes crouch. They support festoons which hang at the sides and drag from a mask in the center of the entablature. The front of the body has the shape of a trapezoid with figures. Colored background. The coloring at the lower edge has its continuation in 1938-88-1396.
The Wreck of the "Atlantic" – Cast up by the Sea
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, April 26, 1873
Wood engraving printed in black ink on paper
Print

Horizontal view of rocky seacoast with boulders, with the figure of a woman in nightdress lying full length in the foreground, while beyond her, looking downward, is a man with a boathook, and in distance, at right, are a point of land with figures and foundered steamship.
The Canton
Thomas Strahan & Co., Manufactory, ca. 1910
Machine-printed paper
Sidewall

Vertical rectangle, a full width, giving nearly two repeats. Framework of simple floral forms enclosing areas of varying size and shape, with Chinoiserie pagoda and three different summer houses.
Lutrin
Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760, 1742–55
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a liturgical lectern decorated with rococo motifs. The top features an eagle standing on a globe with three fleurs-de-lys, flanked by palm leaves and putti heads with wings. The stand of the lectern features fleurons, rosettes, strapwork, c-scrolls, scrolling acanthus leaves, and talons as supports on a base. The plate is numbered and titled.
The Elevation of the wall of a Private Chapel With the Altar
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746-1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Beside the mensa are panels of the dado. The panel between the support bears a monogram framed by two crossed branches. The altar furniture is decorated at the front with festoons. Above it stand beside a crucifix, at left a candle and a figure; at right two candles and a figure. The figures stand in front of pilaster strips framing the central panel with a frame for a picture, and a glory as background. Above the panels of the dado is a high panel with a, probably carved, candelabrum with a burning fire, and a lower one. The vaulted ceiling has three panels, the central one with two sitting angels beside a circular frame. Colored framing background.
Ornamental Vase Design
St. G..., active 18th century, 1772-1777
Engraving on paper
Print

Vase with a domed lid adorned with an acanthus pattern and an acanthus finial. The body of the vase has a pattern of tall vertical leaves, and draped, crossed garlands. The bottom of the vase has spiral fluting and a narrow, tapered foot. The vase is elevated on a low socle. The plate is numbered.
Flying Bats
, late 18th–early 19th century
Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon juice (kakishibu), silk threads (itoire)
Katagami

Motif of bats flying in multiple directions cut from brown paper, their wings interlaced to form a continuous pattern. There are faint silk threads visible throughout the negative space to reinforce the overall structure.
Edging
, 19th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (Valenciennes ground)

Narrow edge lace in a design of small circular ornaments on diamond mesh with a scalloped border.
Design for Embroidered Waistcoat, pattern 1919 of Fabrique de St. Ruf
L. V., ca. 1785
Graphite, brush and gouache on white laid paper
Drawing

A leaf and a plant alternate along the outer edges. The outer border of the pocket consists of a belt motif with hanging bunches of leaves.
Two Trees on Wassataquoik Stream, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 7, 1877
Graphite on tan wove paper
Drawing

Botanical sketch showing a view of two large trees along the Wassataquoik Stream in Maine, near Lake Katahdin. Shown at center, the pair of trees are roughly even in height and have lush canopies that grow sparse at their crowns.
Stage Design, Court Amongst Ruins
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872, early 19th century
Pen and sepia ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Court amongst small buildings and ruins of antique temple. Wooden fence at center, trees and rock at left.
Virgin and Child Holding a Book
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, ca. 1760–1770
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

The Child stands on a table at the left, His head turned toward His Mother. The Virgin stands behind Him, with Her hands supporting Him and the book.
Design for Bottle Cooler, Glasses, and Tray
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822, ca. 1810
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, yellow watercolor, graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Design for bottle cooler, glasses, and tray. At the bottom, a base with a moulding and a dado on which is displayed eagles which are connected by festoons. The eagles support the spherical bottom of the tray, which has an arched railing. On it stands on a fluted pedestal a cooler similar to that depicted in 1938-88-659: curved legs with female masks on top rise from a base with a wave motif. They are held together by a band, and the bands are connected by another band and by vine festoons. The body has the shape of part of an egg. Arched railing on top. Two glasses flank the pedestal.
Fragment
, 14th–15th century
silk, metallic Technique: 2/1 twill pattern by plain weave

Two different animals within curving band.
Spearfishing at Night, Beirut, Syria (Lebanon)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 1868
Oil on paperboard
Drawing

Oil study of a man spearfishing with a torch at night in Beirut, in present-day Lebanon. Situated in the middle distance at center, the fisherman holds a flaming torch before him and above the surface of the water while clutching a spear in his other hand. With his pants rolled up, he stands in knee-deep water beside a faintly-illuminated rocky shoreline. While the torch's light reflects on the water, the remainder of the composition is virtually black.
Sunset over Rome, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, December 1868 - April 1869
Oil and graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Architectural and landscape sketch showing a view overlooking buildings in Rome, as seen from the upper stories of an apartment building. In the foreground, the roof of a nearby building is shown, with other taller buildings at left and right. In the middle distance, less discernable buildings extend to the horizon and fade into a hue of purple. Above, the setting sun renders the sky a gradient from blue to yellow to red, as it falls below the horizon at right.
Porte-Cochère (Doors) Design
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719, ca. 1715
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Design for a set of arched double doors carved with paneling featuring c-scrolls, shells, fleurons, rosettes, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The plate is numbered.
Trimming
, ca. 1850
silk

Red trimming fragment in a design of roses with buds and leaves placed diagonally.
Autre Soldat Chinois
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1738-1745
Etching on laid paper
Print

Plate printed with a male figure dressed in Chinese costume in a landscape (chinoiserie). The figure sits in front of spears and holds in his hands a shield and a mace. At his feet are arrows and a sword. The plate is signed and numbered.
Charger
, 1691
Pewter

Deep bottom; marly has molded edges with concentric lines.
Title Page
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1751
Etching on laid paper
Print

A pastoral scene with a woman standing in the foreground with a basket of linen on her head, and a basket of flowers in her left hand. She is barefoot and her neckline exposes her right breast. In the background other women stand among cows and sheep. There is a tree to the left and clouds in the background, with a stream or pond in the foreground. The title of the series is lettered above. The plate is numbered and signed.