biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Study of Boy Holding a Salver for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, October 17, 1860
Graphite, white chalk on grey wove paper
Drawing

Boy facing left, slightly away. Two studies of right foot, bare and shod, lower right. Verso: Standing woman facing left.
Architectural Detail at the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 6, 1868
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Architecture sketch showing a detail view of the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, Lebanon. Two engaged Corinthian columns support a ruined entablature while a broken pediment is positioned between the column capitals, and similarly, an arched niche is visible between the column shafts. Two other ornate niches are visible at left. Wall made up of ancient rectangular stone blocks.

Verso: Architecture sketch showing a loosely rendered view of the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, Lebanon. Situated in the middle distance at center, across terrain strewn with ruinous stones, the temple is viewed obliquely from the side and only a fraction of its columns are rendered. The entablature and cornice are missing in the center portion of the building. A fraction of another building is cut off along the left margin.
Pillar strip
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1800
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Eight circular wreaths are intertwined vertically. Behind them rises a vertical stem with leaves. Surrounded by a dark colored strip.
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Panel of grotesque ornamentation, at the center of which is an image of a rearing equestrian portrait within an octagonal frame. Around the center are medallions, terms, vines, garlands, vases, scrolling acanthus leaves, and strapwork. The plate is signed.
Project for a Decorative Design
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Graphite on paper
Drawing

A right part of a framing is shown. A vine stem with twigs and leaves, possibly a grape vine.
Sketches from Sea Girt, New Jersey
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, September 1878
Graphite with watercolor wash on white wove paper Verso: Graphite, pen and ink
Drawing

Recto: Top row, view from dunes toward the sea and far shore. Color notations written with pencil along left edge. Second row: A dwelling surrounded by trees shown in the middle distance. Third row: sky over the dunes and sea. Masts of ships shown in background. Inscribed with color notations. First row, left: a man with a net, standing in water. Horizontal lines are drawn beneath sketches. Place and date left. Bottom: a tree in the dunes, with color notations written beneath. 
Verso: At top, an old cedar growing in front of bushes and trees. At bottom of sheet, a bush, with place, name and date. At right, dunes with sea shown in left background.
House beside a Palm Tree, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 1865
Graphite on gray wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the top of a palm tree beside a house. At center, the palm's fronds radiate spherically from its crown in every direction. In the middle distance, a house with an arched staircase is visible at left, with another tree growing near its right corner. A wood post fence stands at the base of this tree.
Elévations d'alcoves avec portes de dégagement à côté
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1774
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Elevation of an alcove with a portrait medallion at the center surrounded by garland, a putto, scrolling acanthus leaf, lamb tongue, and bound leaf ornament. The side doors feature overdoor panels with rosettes (left) and a vase with bouquets (right). The plate is signed.
Trimming
, 18th century
White and colored silk in uncut velvet weave.

Shield with compartments, each containing a device, crown, and as a crest, a half-figure wearing a plumed hat.  In red, blue, yellow on white.
Designs for Panels and Console Tables
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Designs for panels with winged figures holding aloft branches of leaves and tambourines, and console tables supporting carved satyrs, crouching and playing flutes and pan pipes. At the center of the plate is a door with an oval rondel above it, with putti holding onto a dragon-entwined vase. The plate is signed and numbered.
Plate 12, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1771
Etching on paper
Print

Decorative landscape in which a figure with a bow and arrow pursues a fantastic bird. Two framing lines.
Paul & Virginia
, early 19th century
cotton Technique: printed on plain weave
Fragment

Fragment shows a scene in a tropical country and depicts a group of nine people, a horse and dog in front of a simple wooden building. In purple on white.
Mountain Landscape, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1892–93
Graphite on beige wove paper
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of mountains in Mexico. In the middle distance at center left, an extremely rugged and serrated prominence is visible. Behind it, multiple sharp and rugged mountains overlap in the background. A tall, triangular peak is incompletely outlined at upper center.
Design for a Bracket
, mid- 18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on white laid paper
Drawing

Vertical format design for a bracket. Scheme is that of a scroll, with a leaf on top of upper volute, and with a vase and shell on top of this lower volute. Verso: squared in graphite.
Children Playing with a Wagon
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1759
Etching on laid paper
Print

Print from a series of fourteen chinoiserie vignettes, depicting children playing a variety of games in different landscapes. Three children play together in the middle of a landscape within a vignette framed by trees, flowers, foliage, and rocks. A boy sitting in a wagon holds a parasol while being pulled by another, with a third boy pushing from behind. The print is signed and dated.
Section of a wall showing groups of painted panels, Oval Chamber, Salon Louis XIV, Palace of Fontainebleau, France
Frederick Marschall, ca. 1885
Brush and watercolor, tempera on heavy paper
Drawing

Section of wall, the wainscoting containing groups of small painted panels. Upper half, large painted panelsset in gold frames; right, portion of door with painted panels of royal monograms.
Band fragment
, 14th century
silk, linen., metallic Technique: complementary weft 2/1 twill

Three heraldic shields.
Fragment
, 13th century
silk, linen Technique: plain weave

Bands and stripes.
Four Mask (Mascaron) Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647, 1648
Etching on laid paper
Print

Four designs for grotesque satyr masks (mascarons) with male faces (beards, horns, and pointed ears). The plate is numbered.
Console table
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1785–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Above is a project of the left side of a table. Below the leg is a fluted post springing from a calyx, with angular base above, and a female head above a drapery as an Ionic capital. Frame and top form an entablature, with rinceaux in the frieze. In the center below is a console. Left and right from the leg is a sketch of the outlines of an entablature. At right, below, the upper project is different: it is supported by a lion chimera. Frame and top form an entablture with a circular medallion at the front, in the center. From it festoons hang toward rosettes near the corner of the frieze and from there to the legs. The left side is drawn. Below, at right, is a project of the left half of a table in the shape of an angular basin. It is supported outward and in the center by balusters. At the corner is a lion mask with a ring. Usual background.
Brisé fan
, ca. 1830
Carved ivory sticks, silk ribbon

Brisé fan. Ivory sticks carved à jour with Chinese figures in a landscape. Silk ribbon.
A Cantharus
, ca. 1575
Pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle with drawing of a footed classical style vessel with tall scrolling handles that project high above the rim. The lower half of the body is covered in elongated gadrooning. The upper portion has a central human mask, with leaves instead of hair. Below the rim is a festoon of swags, bull heads, drapery, and flowers.
Escutcheon, No. 5 from "Raccolta di varii cappriccii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti"
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664, 1646
Etching on paper
Print

No. 5 of the same set as -10, "Raccolta di varii cappriccii," etc.
Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries
François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676, 1710
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Twenty-third plate from a series of prints depicting the ornament and interiors of the King's apartment at the Royal palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, part of the Cabinet du Roi (King's Cabinet) series published by the Imprimerie Royale. The plate illustrates two overdoors from the Grand Apartment of the Tuileries Palace. Both overdoors are decorated with a frieze, and a broken pediment with a central lidded vase, ornamented with garlands of laurel leaves, rosettes, heraldic devices, grotesque motifs, foliage, herms, acanthus leaves, running patterns of laurel leaves and other foliage. The upper vase has eagle handles, and the lower vase has lion handles, both have lids in the shape of a French royal crown. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Cartouche with the Alphabet Surrounded by Ornament
Pierre Gandin, French, active 15??-16??, early 17th century
engraving on paper
Print

The alphabet lettered in the center of a rectangular cartouche surrounded by ornament featuring scrolling leaves, fleurons, beads, and drapery. The plate is signed.
A Landscape
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877, 1825–1840
Black and red crayon, pen and ink on paper
Drawing

A stream is shown in a mountainous country. Boats are upon it, people beside it. A big tree is in the center.
Sidewall
, ca. 1830
Block-printed

Irise or rainbow paper. Full width of paper giving repeat of large-scale arabesque of flowers and foliage in graded color, ranging from blue along edges to green down center.
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Panel design filled with symmetrical, grotesque ornaments of mythological theme. At center is a figure of a kneeling Bacchus holding a pitcher and grapes, and surrounded by panthers. The composition is filled with aspects of the harvest, vines and grapes. There are three inset rondels with figures blowing hunting horns, holding cornucopia, and looking downward. The motifs perhaps indicate elements, and the months, of Autumn. The plate is not signed, and there is a printed "E" at the bottom.
Sidewall
, ca. 1750
Leather, stamped, painted, gilded

Diapered field, varnished silver. Rococo vine, in green, with flowers in red and blue.
Shawl fragment
, ca. 1835
wool Technique: 2/2 twill tapestry weave, side borders added Label: 2/2 wool twill tapestry, pieced together

Shawl fragment with two repeats of a multicolored cone motif with a border above and below. Multicolored band is stitched to each side.
Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card
, 17th century
Stencil-colored woodblock print
Playing card

1909-22-1-1/35: Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards50;     1909-22-1-9: Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards.50
A Woman with Children
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1751
Etching on laid paper
Print

An interior family scene. A woman seated with her children. A child lays across her lap as she cleans its bottom. To the left, a young girl holds a textile to the fire with a dog and bowl in front of her. To the left, another child leans against the baby's crib with a cat seated at the woman's feet. A fireplace to the left and in the background a window with a shelf above and a ladder leaning against the wall. To the right, a basket, and jug on a counter with a shelf against the wall. The plate is numbered and signed.
Textile
, 18th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: compound weave with supplementary weft

White and silver striped fabric with supplementary weft of flat silver strips whose floats form vertical stripes with leaves at intervals. White floats of the weft form outlines for serpentine floral sprays spread over the striped areas.
Textile
, 19th century
wool, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft

Horizontally-striped plain weave with a single warp of a light violet color and double thread weft with discontinuous weft patterning. The design consists of stripes of varying colors alternating with stripes with geometric designs. Fringes at ends.
Profil de l’Hostel de Sully
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Architectural elevation of an exterior façade of the Hotel de Sully with a section view of the interior staircase to the right, and a scale below. The façade features windows, cartouches, dormer windows with finials, and statues in niches. The plate is titled and signed.
Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762, 1738-1749
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a vase with dolphins encircling the belly of the krater form. The faces of the dolphins protrude on either side as knobs. There is some scalloping twisting from the body of the vase, through the neck and up to the rim. The lower half of the vase is decorated with a fish-scale pattern. The foot of the vase is adorned with rosettes and vegetal motifs. The plate is lettered and numbered.
Street View
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, 1797-1858
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Print

A tall pine tree divides the print in half. The left side shows the architectural structure of a welcome torii as the right side is filled with people rummaging through the city streets. Shops open show people enjoying a meal. A pair of women are huddled together in kimonos, samurai are patrolling the street, while merchants are attempting to hustle their wares. This street view's perspective makes the scene go on beyond view.
Designs for Two Vertical Panels
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1738–45
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Folio 8, plate 7 of series 6. Two designs for upright rocaille panels. At left, panel decorated with masks, armorial trophies, banners, drums, and putti figures. A central male armored figure sits upon a rock and holds a spear and shield. At right, panel decorated with masks, scrollwork, armorial trophies. At center, a fantastical landscape scene with pyramid in background. Seated in the foreground is a group of putti drinking wine, the figure at center vomitting on the ground.
Fragment
, 19th century
silk, paper with applied gold foil Technique: plain compound twill

Navy blue twill ground with woven supplementary weft pattern of large scale dragons and flying clouds in rust, white, yellow, green, and sky blue silk threads with metallic paper threads.
Wall Clock (Cartel) Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790, 1775–94
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Design for a wall clock (cartel) before lettering, with a round clockface featuring the head of the Greek mythological gorgon Medusa with her hair of snakes, and roman numerals, framed by foliate branches, putti, spears with flags, a winged helmet, horn, quiver of arrows, arms, and a lion's pelt/skin.
L'Eglise de St. Pierre à Rome (St. Peter's Basilica in Rome)
Chez Daumont, active 18th century, 
Hand-colored etching on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, white paper, patterned fabric, and plastic adhered with thread and adhesive
Bound print

Perspective view showing the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. At left, a procession moves down the length of the nave, viewed through two wide arched openings. A baptismal font at front left is surrounded by decorative floor panels. At front right, a figure in a red cloak holding a papal cross kneels before an open book, looking up and extending his hands with palms facing up. Stairs ascend to a balcony behind him, and a column cuts across the foreground at right. The windows of the church are cut out, with patterned fabric mimicking stained glass, covered in a plasticky material, and thread visible through the openings. Printed along bottom margin: A Paris chés Daumont rue S. Martin.

Verso:  Patches of white paper covering patterned fabric and thread, slightly visible through the paper, and an inscription in French identifying the print.
Elevation of a Living Room Wall
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1746–1809
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Elevation of a Living Room Wall.
Four Vase Designs with Flowers
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Four designs for vases with flowers, fruit, and festoons of flowers and leaves decorated with neoclassical motifs and shapes including gadrooning, fluting, and leaf ornament. The plate is numbered.
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Autumn
Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572, ca. 1565
Engraving on paper
Print

Autumn. A woman holding an apple twig. Bacchus drinking. T Wo women with raised heads in the frame.
Design for the North 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 straight entablature are two crouching sphinxes and two dolphins beside a pedestal with an urn, from which garlands drag, crossing each other and landing upon the backs of the sphinxes. In front of the pedestal is a mask. A griffin in profile appears on either side of the entablature. The center relief is not executed. The door is framed by pilasters with Corinthian capitals on either side, and larger columns with garlands at the top appear on either side of the doorcase or doorframe. In the door opening are two men. One of them appears to have a drawing under his left arm and is in conversation with the gentleman beside him.
Grands Balcons
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742, c. 1737
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Three ornamental balcony designs, stacked vertically on the page. The open metalwork designs feature scrolling bands, leaves, s- and c-curves, rosettes, and palmettes. The plate is numbered but not signed.
Design for a Woven Fabric Motif
, 1815–30
Brush and gouache on brown oiled translucent paper
Drawing

Textile design featuring a colorful paisley-like motif containing of an arragement of fantastical floral garlands. The design is outlined in black and contains red, white, yellow, blue, and purple flowers with green leaves. The flowers emerge from a small yellow and purple pedestal.
Rainbow in the Alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1868
Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a rainbow in the alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany. In middle distance at left, a steep, wooded hillside descends to a valley at lower center. The lower portion of a faintly rendered rainbow arches out of the valley and into the sky above. Other rugged mountains are visible in the background and at right.

Verso: Botanical sketches from around Berchtesgaden, Germany showing eight views of different flowering plants.
Title Page
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, 1596 or before
Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink on laid paper
Drawing

Recto: Title page design with a central escutcheon surrounded by animals, including a dragon, boar, lion, buffalo, tiger, fox, etc. The head of an elephant is shown at upper center, its trunk hanging over the area reserved for text. Italian inscriptions at center.
Verso: Italian inscriptions.
Design for a Tureen and a Platter
Unknown, 1740–48
Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and sepia wash on two joined sheets of paper
Drawing

1911-28-160-a: Tureen in elevation, platter in plan.  The left an...;     1911-28-160-b: Bird's-eye view. Birds shown in center of edge, le...
Effect of Light on Jerusalem
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 2, 1868
Graphite and white gouache on gray paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of clouds breaking and sunlight falling on the city of Jerusalem. In the foreground at center, the Dome of the Rock is clearly visible atop Temple Mount, as indistinct city buildings extend to the horizon. Above, billowing clouds break apart, allowing the white light of the sun--rendered here in white gouache--to cascade over the city.
Cloud Study, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, March 1871
Oil and graphite on paperboard; verso: graphite
Drawing

Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a billowing cumulus cloud in tumultuous, stormy skies over the Hudson River Valley, as viewed from or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Devoid of topography, the scene highlights the immense, puffy cloud at center left, whose edges are brightly lined in hues of gold and pink. Around it, wispy and whirling clouds largely obscure an otherwise blue sky.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the sunset in the Hudson River Valley, viewed from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. In the foreground, a hastily rendered slope descends from right to left and lower right. The Hudson River is visible in the middle distance at left, while the Catskill Escarpment forms a rugged horizon in the background. Dark, low-lying clouds hang just above the ridge, while sun beams emanate from behind them and stretch vertically across the sky above.
Autumn Foliage, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 1865
Oil and graphite on green-backed paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a richly-saturated maple tree in fall colors somewhere in the mountainous forests of Vermont. Situated at center right, the tree has dark brown bark and vibrant red-orange leaves as it leans slightly to the left--possibly windblown by the rain storm that appears to be approaching in the background. This tree is surrounded by abundant green vegetation while a hill forms a gently rolling horizon beyond. The sky above is filled with dark grey clouds, suggesting a coming storm.
Stomacher
, 17th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace (continuous tape with bars added)

Female figure with full skirt in center with scrolling floral design in the background.
Frame and chandelier; male portrait bust
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

The right side is shown. On top of an ovoidal frame are an eagle and a garland. beside it stands an eagle with displayed wings; it carries a laurel branch in the mouth. Above it sits a child upon what probably is a neck. Bottom row: at left, a child sits upon a pedestal and carries a tree with four candles standing upon branches. Center left: sketch for the ovoidal frame. Center right: sketch for a socket with a candle. At right: bust of a man with opened mouth, shown in profile, turned toward left. Below it is a small indistinct sketch.
Excerpt from "An Artist Among Animals" from Scribner's Magazine (XIV, No. 6, December 1893, p. 753, 754)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924, 1893
Printed in black ink on paper
Ephemera

Article clipping from Scribner's Magazine on Frederick Stuart Church and his creative process. On page 753, an illustration shows a woman woman wearing long flowy dress, holding flower in left hand with a lion on her right. On page 754, an illustration on the top left shows a woman with leopards on either side of her. Below on the left, a woman with a snake on her neck.
Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
, 1815–1840
Brush and gouache, black paint on oily tracing paper
Drawing

Top: Leaf boughs hang from a branch. Bottom: A plant growing from the spiral of a shell standing upon its rim.