biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for an Earring
, late 18th century
Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on light green paper
Drawing

Jewelry design for an earring. The ring with diamonds on its front. The pendant in pavilion shape, with on top a roof and five chains with blossoms, serving as columns. Hanging from the base are five drops. Left corner below bevelled.
Tool
, 19th century
Iron

For fluting fabric. Scissors-like instrument of two cylindrical rods, with handles, moveable on a central pin. In two parts, the pin being broken.
Maison restaurée à Sarcelles, par Mandar Architect et Ingénieur en Chef des Ponts et Chaussée
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An architectural print illustrating an exterior elevation and four floor plans for a house featuring neoclassical motifs, columns, and a pediment. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
Pier Glass Frame
Thomas Chippendale, 1718 – 1779, 1755
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Page from "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" 2nd edition.
Élévation d’un Batiment de Trois Toises de Face
Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782, 1762
Engraving on paper
Print

An architectural elevation depicting the front facade of a building with a scale, framed in black. The building is three storeys high with double doors flanked by windows on the ground floor. A central panel above the doors has an inscritpion and the date 1762.  Each storey has two large rectangular windows with small round dormer windows at the attic level. The title and publishers address are lettered below with the plate number lettered in the lower left corner.
Flacon. Pomme à Corbin. Etuis.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Designs for a metal bottle, cane handle, and cases. The bottle is carved to look like wicker, and is draped with garlands and guilloche of flowers and leaves. The cane handle is curved and features acanthus leaf and branch ornamentation. There are two cases. The one on the left has a band of arabesque ornamentation and spiral fluting; the case on the right has gadrooning, lancet leaf, wave band, arabesque, bead garland, bead course, branch, and ribbon twist ornamentation. The plate is signed and numbered.
Trophy Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1778
Etching on laid paper
Print

Trophy ornament design incorporating flowers, foliate branches, festoon of flowers, potted plants, ladders, baskets, fruit, watering cans, roller, and a rake. The plate is numbered and signed.
Design for a Book Cover: My Study Fire, by Hamilton W. Mabie
Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961, ca. 1899
Brush and gouache on brown paper
Drawing

On brown ground, design in green and yellow with black boxes of yellow text: MY / STUDY . FIRE / BY / HAMILTON . W . MABIE.
Design for Victory holding a Wreath and Trumpet and Studies for Various Decorations
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, 1812
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
Drawing

At left, in right triangle, winged female genius, seated beside candelabrum, raises wreath with right hand and holds trumpet in lowered left hand.  At upper right, in semicircle, two seated figures on either side of motif with inscription above:  Fondi delli semicercole cinabro o verde; in rectangle below, two figures, one seated, one standing with inscription above:  Fondo del quadro del trionfo della/ Guerra azzuro figure color/ li altri camei son cinabro verde e/ nero; in rectangle below, sketch of triumphant Peace with inscription above:  Fondo del quadro della Pace trionfo verde altri camei tu/ rchino nero e rosso bucaro.
Mars
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, ca. 1580 – 1605
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper
Drawing

Recto: Mars, dressed in armor, appears within an oval frame. He holds a sword in his right hand and looks right. The drawing is partially superimposed over sections of another figure. Verso: Blank.
Condiment Spoon with Applied Shell Medallion Terminal
, 19th century
metal
spoon

Ladle form, with round bowl, tapering stem with rounded terminal applied with cast shell.
Woman
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1881
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Three sketches of a female figure wearing a hat.
Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card
, 17th century
Stencil-colored woodblock print
Playing card

1909-22-1-1/35: Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards50;     1909-22-1-33: Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards.50
Head of a Man
Giuseppe Zocchi, Italian, 1711 or 1717 - 1767, ca. 1760–1780
Engraving in dark brown ink on white paper
Print

Bust of a man facing frontally, with a thick beard and eyebrow, with tassels from the points of his wide collars.
Drawing study: Narcissus (?)
, 1700–1750
Black crayon, pen, ink, brown and black water color washes with white heightening on paper
Drawing

A man is shown partly in profile, partly from the left rear, kneeling under trees beside what evidently is water. A sleeping dog is sketched  in the left foreground.
The Adoration of the Magi
Pietro Testa, Italian, ca. 1611 - 1650, ca. 1640–1650
Engraving on white paper
Print

Grand volumns of the Corinthian order at left. In front, the Virgin and Joseph sit with the Child standing by their knees. The three Kings offer their gifts with their entourage behind them. Mountains in the background, the Star above surrounded by putti.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk Technique: compound satin weave

Fragment has a design of stylized scrolls and leafy blossoms in red, yellow, and white on a light brown ground
Mountain Range with Clouds, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, April 30, 1885
Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a dark and rugged mountain range in Mexico. Situated beneath a group of billowing clouds, the mountain range is cast in shadow as stretches across the horizon. A tall, triangular peak is prominently visible at center. A range of foothills, also darkened by shadow, is included in front of the range. Flat terrain comprises foreground and middle distance.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of Toluca Valley, which is part of a panorama with 1917-4-1072-a verso. In the foreground, wooded mountainsides converge toward the center, where rugged foothills descend to a flat valley floor that extends into the distance. In the background at left, a tall, sharp peak with a long ridge is shown beside an even more distant mountain at right. Mountain at left likely Nevado de Toluca.
Fragment
, ca. 1780
Carved, painted and gilded oak

Architectural fragment showing two bands of moldings: cyma and egg-and-dart.
Printing block
, late 18th century
wood, metal

Wood block with metal pins for printing textiles. Design of curving fine branches with large blossoms and leaves in raised wood. Background of lozenge-shaped areas set off by wide lines of dots, each dot being a tiny metal pin.