biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) with supplementary weft

Fragment of red cut and uncut velvet on yellow silk ground with extra metallic weft. Two portions of curving large-scale foliage are all that show of the design.
Three Standing Men
Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675, 1630–1640
Red chalk, pen and ink on paper
Drawing

A group of three standing men. The one at far left is seen in profile; the one at center seen from behind; the one at right shown from the front, holding a stick.
Ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, Rome, Italy
, 1750
Pen and black ink, brush and grey watercolor on white laid paper
Drawing

Sketch of the Church of the Gesù ceiling, painted by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (called "Il Baciccio"), showing the Triumph of the Nature of Jesus. The painted decoration is contained between four windows at either 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;     1909-22-1-15: Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards.50
Design for a Candlestick, plate 74, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1748
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

1921-6-212-32-a: Candlestick on platform; twisted from bottom up wi...;     1921-6-212-32-b: Rocaille design with large seashell at center full...
Fragment
, 1850–1900
silk Technique: woven

Portion of a dark mauve sleeve with self pattern in satin ground.
Interior of Circular Building
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843, early 19th century
Pen and bistre ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of circular building with columns, barrels line interior of circular room.
General McClellan's Sixth Cavalry Regiment, Embarking at Alexandria for Old Point Comfort
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, April 2, 1862
Graphite, brush and gray wash on cream paper
Drawing

Horizontal view filled with figures of lancers on horseback in left foreground, left and extreme right middlegrounds, with a bugler and two officers at right, as a large house and animals stand in central background and as a river, containing a steamer and a sailing ship, gives way to the far shore in right background.
Détail d’une Maison Construite à Etampe pour Me Lahay sur les déssins de Mr. Brigard Architecte
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural print illustrating a house, with two exterior elevations, an interior and exterior sectional view, and two floorplans. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, 1765–73
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for fantastical chinoiserie-style flowers from a series of six plates. A variety of differently shaped and sized sprigs of flowers and leaves originating from the same stem. The plate is signed.
LE JEU DE LA GOBILLE / LE CHÂTEAU DE CARTES
Jacques Bacheley, French, 1712 – 1781, mid- 18th century
etching on paper
Print

Plate from a series of twelve scenes of children playing, framed within decorative rococo cartouches, two per plate, side-by-side. The left- hand scene shows a group of boys playing with balls within a landscape with a house in the background. The right-hand scene shows a group of boys around a table, building a house of cards within an interior. The titles are lettered below each cartouche and the plate is numbered.
Project for Book Illustration; A Panel with Attributes of Sciences and of a Hero
, 1750–55
Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

The inner framings are influenced by Watteau's designs. Niches form lines and stripes along the edges.  A trophy composed of books, one of which contains descriptions of medals, plans, weapons, collar with medals, a globe as an alter with fire. A burning lamp hangs in top center.
A Call for Volunteers
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, October 20, 1886
Charcoal, red chalk, pen and black ink on off-white wove paper
Drawing

Thick charcoal line divides sheet horizontally into two sections. Upper section contains three groups of figures: large, indistinct one at right; woman with two children, center, moving left; and the third group is in chaotic motion, at left; verso: at bottom right are ornamental motifs; at center is a blotter of two very rough sketches of people running, beside a vertical line.
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished, with Alternative Suggestions
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1805–1815
Graphite, brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper pasted on paper
Drawing

The repeats, of which not quite three are shown, consist of a bough from which a feathery leaf branches off and which ends with a lacy cone for which two altnerative suggestions are made. Two rows of staggered rosettes and two undulated lines, the lower of which is fringed, are at the bottom.
Flowers with Bird, Plate 15
, 18th century
Engraving on paper
Print

Flowers with bird, plate 15.
Title Page
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811, 1776–89
Crayon manner etching on paper
Print

Title page and two horizontal ornament designs featuring a rectangular cartouche with a winged figure and putti, festoons of leaves, rosettes, foliate branches, an owl, mask, birds, quiver of arrows, ribbons, snakes, foliate scrolls, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The plate is titled and numbered.
Elévation Latérale d'un autre Lit à la Polonoise
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a bed with a canopy, decorated with plumes at the top corners, and fringed and tasseled textiles. At the foot of the bed is a carved oval ornamented with bead course, fluting, and lamb tongue. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1805–1815
Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper
Drawing

A chain, behind which flower boughs rise, is shown over a row of beads.
Arabesque Designs
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796, 1788
Etching and aquatint on laid paper
Print

A horizontal arabesque ornament design with neoclassical motifs, featuring roundels with figures, Apollo's head, vases of fruit and flowers, terminal mythological figures - winged woman and centaur, lions, a profile portrait, scrolling acanthus leaves, and foliage, festoons of flowers, and beads, fleurons, and rosettes. The plate is signed and numbered.
The Lammer River Valley, viewed near Golling, Austria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 5, 1868
Graphite, brush and white gouache on light brown wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view looking westward down the valley of the Lammer River, a river that joins with the Salzach near Golling, Austria. In the foreground, a slope covered in evergreen trees descends from right to left. The artist stands on this elevated slope, which descends to the valley floor in the middle distance at center. Highlighted in white gouache, the Lammer River snakes its way through the valley, which is bounded at left and right by rugged and heavily wooded mountain ranges. In the background, similarly rugged mountain ranges form an undulating horizon, with the craggy and snow-capped Hinteres Freieck articulated in white gouache at upper left.
Toit a Porcs
Charles Emile Jacque, French, 1813 - 1894, 1846
Etching on China paper pasted down
Print

A farm maid carries a basket past a shed. A pig eats from a trough, left; two geese, right.
Wall with Chimneypiece and Mirror
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 18th century
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Design for an interior wall decoration with applied ornamental stuccowork.  A chimneypiece at left with a large mirror above surrounded by decorative panels. Half of a double door visible at right. Scale at lower left.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: raised pile of cut and uncut loops in a satin foundation (velvet)

Peacocks, creatures and diagonal branches in purple on yellow background.
Study of a Woman
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Black crayon and graphite on paper
Drawing

A woman is shown frontally, up almost to her shoulders. Her left hand holds the hem of her upper skirt, her right hand is shown from the palm.
Etui
, ca. 1750
Shagreen (shark or ray skin), gilt copper

Missing insert with tools; most likely associated with n-a-1012 (necessaire insert with tools).
Sepulchral Monument for Leonida Spada
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1815
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite on white laid paper
Drawing

A sarcophagus topped by a coat-of-arms stands in a lunette-like niche while a sorrowing putto points out the inscription to Leonida Spada.  A woman with a torch crouches in the left foreground.
Trimming
, late 18th–early 19th century
silk Technique: woven

Red ground with yellow warp figure of leaves alternately turning left and right.
Clouds over Mountain Peaks
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August - September, 1868
Graphite and white gouache on tan laid paper; verso: graphite
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of several sharp peaks in a mountain range in the European Alps. At center, low-lying clouds hang among the summits of the peaks, between which a narrow valley is formed. At right, another tall, rocky mountain rises toward the clouds.

Verso: Landscape sketches showing two oppositely oriented views of wooded hills and rocky mountains by a river or lake. Above, a steep, wooded prominence is shown in the foreground and frames a rocky peak in the distance. Below, a river winds through a rolling, wooded landscape that gives way to taller, more rugged mountains in the background at left.
Panel
, late 18th century
Painted

Transcribed from label: " Decloux Purchase 1911 "Original drawings purchaced by the Council ( last word covered by tape)" "
Pommier à la Romaine
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for a bench seat decorated in the style of Roman antiquity with sphynxes, busts, branch ornament, and drapery. The plate is signed and numbered.
Study of Siena Cathedral
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, ca. 1872
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
Drawing

Sketches of the interior of the Siena Cathedral. View in the choir behind the high altar from the right bay. Shown are details, including windows and railing.
Album of Prints: Chinoiseries and Screens designed by Gabriel Huquier and François Boucher
Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772, 1740–1770
Book of engravings

Bound book of plates, the first four being various Chinoiserie scenes. The remaining 7 are scenes of figures and ornamentation for folding screens.
Design for a Pendant
, 16th century
Pen and sepia on paper
Drawing

In the center, a square diamond flanked by female terms. Above, a bucranium and below, a putto head. Pearl hanging from the bottom; ring on top.
Ewer
, 17th–18th century
dark amber glass

Brown Amber glass; Vessel with long flaring neck and slightly pear shaped body with tear drop shaped relief along base One handle of applied glass and long upturned spout; Pronounced slant
Design for Left Half of Door Frame
A. Quadrío, Italian, active 18th century, 1700–30
Pen and ink, brush and wash on blue-gray paper
Drawing

Vertical format design for the left half of a door frame. An arch is supported by a group of supports flanked by two isolated columns. They have the dado in common. A figure of a woman, holding a crown, stands upon a pedestal, another with a lamb in her right arm, stands upon a bracket. A bust stands at a wall panel. The coat of arms of the House of Savoys is in the wedge beside the arch. A figure, representing Hope, upon the cornice. Above, at the corner, a female figure with a book. An escutcheon is in front of the pediment, upon which a boy with a staff sits.
Elevation of a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1785
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Elevation of a church, possible for Monte Vergine. Doric roder. Rustic two-story square. A portico is supported by four columns; statues in the outer inter columnia. Triangular pediment, before a semicircular window. Windows in the lateral wall panels. Dome. Curved colonades laterally.
Central Panel for a Ceiling
, 1750–1800
Black crayon, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

A flower vase upon a pedestal projecting from a parapet.
Title Page
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769, 1749–61
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Title page for the first part of a series of twelve plates of designs for rococo ornament by Peyrotte. An oval frame made up of rocaille and foliate motifs, acanthus leaves, flowers, branches, and scrolls, with a bird perched within to the right, a landscape in the background with a built structure and trees. The title is lettered centrally within a cartouche in the upper center of the frame. The plate is trimmed and pasted onto the album page. It is signed and numbered.
Decorative door boss and nail
, ca. 1550–1700
Steel-plated wrought iron

Square type, pierced and embossed with wrought lines. Quadrant leaf design based on old examples. Collared square domed nail head with four engraved circles, on square shank.
Metalwork Design
Babin, French, ca. 1750, ca. 1780
Etching on paper
Print

Design for ironwork/ metalwork - a deer supporting a blank coat of arms. The plate is numbered and signed.
Architectural Details and Three heads
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, ca. 1750
Black, red chalk, pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper
Drawing

Top left: elevation of upper left corner of a building; part of a window pane, above which two friezes and cornices rise. A drapery festoon decorates the lower part with grotesque motif. Top right: a capital for a pilaster with masks forming the capital; a part of left leg of a seated man. Center right: left side of a frieze with a tiara over a shell flanked by cherubim. Bottom: three heads of women; left one is lowered, the central one is turned in toward left; right is shown in bust profile.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) with supplementary weft

Fragment of purple cut and uncut velvet on silk ground originally heavily shot with silver metal thread. Design of a small branch with two leaves curving in opposite directions. Horizontal rows of design turn alternately left and right.
Man
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1876–1877
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a male figure dressed in a uniform, with long waistcoat, short pants, hat.
Woman
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1881–1882
Graphite on laid paper
Drawing

Sketch of a female figure, standing, seen from behind.
Elevations of Apartment Interiors
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Page with two plates, printed one above the other. Both plates offer elevations of interiors decorated with chimneypieces, mirrors, panels carved with cartouches and trophies, overdoor paintings, and views into exterior gardens; the top panel also includes small sculptures on consoles and brackets. The lower panel offers a split design of a recessed niche.The plates are signed and numbered.
Fragment
, 16th–17th century
silk Technique: raised supplementary warp pile in satin foundation (velvet); ciselé voided

Cream-colored ground with pattern of pomegranate sprigs with rampant lions and birds.
Remus Kills King Amulius; Remus Led in Chains before King Amulius; Two Studies After Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1821–22
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on white heavy wove paper
Sketchbook folio

Upper drawing of dying king sprawling toward lower left corner; surrounded by four classically dressed helmeted warriors, one with drawn sword. Other soldiers crowd at right, moving crowd in background. Setting shows dais or throne in open air with square and city gate. Lower drawing of King Amulius on his throne at right pointing left. Remus, with hands bound, seen from back at left accompanied by two warriors. Young man wearing robes pleads for Remus at center.
Original Drawing, Cahier VII, plate 3
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1770–96
Pen and black ink, brush and wash on greenish laid paper
Drawing

View of bed with draped window at wall. Bed decorated with female busts at posts and lion head at center, tassels, and draping. Above, canopy with urns on either side.
Woman
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1881
Pastel crayon on wove paper
Drawing

Recto: Sketch of a female figure; Verso: Sketch of two female figures.
Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, ca. 1810
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Jupiter shown sitting on throne. He raises bowl into which Hebe pours wine. Mercury looks on. Below are two putti and an eagle, while above two putti fly with bowl of fruits.  Rays of unusual graphite marks are above at right.
Stage Design, Oriental Street
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872, early 19th century
Pen and sepia ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Street in town with rows of buildings on either side, tower at left.
Tile
, 16th century
Glazed mounted earthenware

Moulded in low relief, with white, blue, green, and brown glaze. Quatrefoil design, with conventionalized floral and foliate forms.
Ornamented Chimneypiece Designs
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742, 1749-1761
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Page with two plates printed next to one another. Each plate is divided down the center, with variations on the shape and motifs of the fireplaces, mirrors, and paneling. The chimneypieces and panels are decorated with carved baskets of flowers, garlands, acanthus leaves, trophies, mascarons, wave patterns, birds, snakes, and scrolls. Both plates are signed and numbered.
The Daily Citizen
, 1890–95
Machine-printed
Sidewall

Reprint of "The Daily Citizen", Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 2nd, 1863.
Sketch from Shoulder of Mount Chocorua
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, September 23, 1879
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Sketch from a shoulder of Mt. Chocorua, looking at Mt. Mote in distance at left and Mt. Kearsarge in distance at right. Verso: Half of another mountain.
Design for a Ceiling
, 1725–1750
Pen and ink, red crayon, graphite on paper
drawing

Bacchus and Ariadne on clouds accompanied by three of her companions, three putti, and a panther.
Title Page
Borch, active mid 18th century, 1729–68
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Title page with the title lettered within a cartouche framed by four sea creatures, cattails, and reeds. The plate is signed.
Church Interior
Victor Louis, French, 1731 - 1802, ca. 1770
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on laid paper
Drawing

Design of the interior of a large, domed church.
Panel
, 18th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in counted satin, darning and double running stitches on plain weave

Ornament arranged in horizontal bands of openwork and embroidery in stylized designs.
Pendant Design
Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581, 1582
Engraving on paper
Print

A pendant in the form of a sea monster with five drop pearls is suspended from a bow knot. On its back is a kneeling man with a knife, removing a scale, and a seated angel with a dog. The plate is numbered.
Design for a Watchcase
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686, 1660–1670
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for the lid of a circular watchcase, decorated with a biblical scene representing the infant Christ being worshiped by the Magi; flanked by two flower arrangements. The plate is signed.
Man
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, n.d.
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of a male figure standing at attention in uniform.
Wainscoting with Double Door
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 18th century
Engraving on paper
Bound print

Design for interior in Rococo style. A wall with wainscoting, a large double door in the center. Above, an overdoor painting depicting several nude female figures playing music. Flanking the door are two panels in alternative styles. Scale at lower center.
Nouveaux Desseins de Balcons
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775, 1890–1910
Facsimile of the original etching (photomechanical or lithography)
Print

Three designs for wrought iron or metalwork balcony balustrades featuring scrolling leaves, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, festoons of flowers, floral diaper pattern, and a vase. The plate is titled, with a scale. This is a late 19th-early 20th-century reproduction from a series first published between 1738-1743.
Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1793
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

A variation of 1938-88-1317. The pedestal is replaced by an angular base, upon whose projecting front part sits a woman, supporting with her right hand the medallion standing upon her right leg, and with her left the chalice with the host above it. Beside her kneels at right a putto carrying a book. The inscription stands upon a band, supporting the shaft. No entablature.
Chef de piece
Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815, 1770–85
cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave

Design in red on white on a long narrow piece. Scene of a shipwreck alternate with curving scrolls.
Button
, late 19th century
painted porcelain [painted in color]

concave button ornamented with four small flowers [two red and two blue]; four holes.
Napkin
, early–mid-19th century
cotton Technique: 5-harness satin 2-block damask

Small fringed napkin woven in a block design of brown, blue, tan and purple.
Ecce Homo
, 1840s
Wood engraving on paper
Print

Pilate, Christ, and a soldier stand in the door of the palace. Another soldier and the crowd at left.
Band
, 18th century
linen Technique: bobbin lace, Binche style with Binche ground

Louis XV pattern. ''Fond à la Vierge''. Stylized scrolls and plant forms.
Fringe
, 16th century
silk Technique: woven

Red fringe with a heading woven in chain design. Skirt threads are looped and twisted.
Floral field and border
, 1780–1815
White on glazed paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Lozenge scheme. The lozenges are formed alternatively by laurel stems and by undulating boughs with leaves and seeds in each first and third row, those in the second rows formed by either kind correspondingly. Stars in scroll lozenges are shown in the center of the first group of lozenges, rosettes in bead circles in those of the second group.
Sketch of Figures Bearing a Cross
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Several figures holding up a heavy cross.  The leg of a figure rests on it from above; the rest of this figure is not pictured. Center figure, below, partially traced on verso.
Two Heads
Wilhelm Leibl, German, 1844 - 1900, 1874
Etching in dark brown ink on paper, mounted
Print

Two heads of an elderly man, left, and an elderly woman, right, facing each other. They both wear close-fitting hats. Inscribed above, left: "W. Leibl 1874" and right: "W. Leible 74".
The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith (title page)
Birket Foster, English, 1825–1899, 1859
wood engraving
Print

Vertical rectangle. Two women, one with a jar on her head, a goatherd and a goat look across a plain where ruins of an aqueduct are seen.
Sleeve cuff
, 19th century
silk Technique: embroidered on plain weave

Yellow taffeta, silk ornamented with borders of ribbons, folds of satin and bands of embroidery (chain stitch) in floral patterns, worked in bright colored silks.
Panel
, 17th century
linen Technique: withdrawn element work; bobbin lace

Panel edged on one side with a wide border in a design showing a conventionalized vine pattern. Trimmed with bobbin lace.