biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Sense of Taste, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru exarati (Images of the Five Senses Engraved for the Benefit of the Goldsmith)
Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Dutch, ca. 1565 - 1637, ca. 1580
Blackwork engraving on laid paper
Print

Horizontal oval within horizontal rectangle. In an animal-grotesque field the medallion depcits a seated women eats a fruit in a garden.
Title Page
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) of architecture fragments, including cartouches and doorways. The upper left plate is the title page with the text printed in the center of the cartouche. The plates are numbered but not signed.
Design for a Room Wall
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1780-1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design and plan for a back wall of a room with a central chimneypiece and surrounding doors. The plate is signed and numbered.
Stage Design: Palace Architecture
Unknown, Italian, 1750–99
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk on white laid paper
Drawing

Design for a stage set.  A palace facade seen from the left angle and from below.  At left, stairs lead through a porch into a garden.  Pavilion to the right.  Pencil mark above, indicating a curve.
Last Supper
, mid-19th century
linen Technique: damask
Tablecloth

White tablecloth with a central design showing the Last Supper repeated in two directions. Border composed of a scrolling vine interrupted by Biblical scenes. Loosely scattered floral forms are in the intervening space.
LE BASIN DE LATONE
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, ca. 1670–1687
Etching on laid paper
Print

A view of the Latona fountain at Versailles set within the formal garden landscape. The fountain features sculpted figures and frogs with jets of water. Steps in the foreground leading down to the basin with the fountain. Beyond two more round basin fountains with parterre planting. In the background, a large avenue or path with bosquets (groves) on either side with trees, and the Grand Canal beyond. Figures (courtiers) throughout the gardens. The plate is signed and titled with a description.
Christening gown
, 19th century
cotton Technique: embroidered on plain weave

Short bodice with wide low neck; puff sleeves; long skirt; opening from neck to skirt bottom; ornamented with fine tucks arranged as crossing diagonals on bodice and sleeves and as horizontal and vertical lines on skirt which is edged, as are the sleeves, with scallops (embroidered).
Design for a Brooch
, 16th century
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

A cherub supports a round escutcheon framing a diamond. Pending is a round diamond.
Design for a Chimneypiece
, 1780–1800
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

The design is a variation of that of the left half of 1938-88-8209. Woven intertwined bands are in the oblongs of the inner frame. A garland is sketched in the oblong of the pilaster at left. Ram heads with festoons serve as capitals. In front of the center of the frieze is a sketched relief with two figures. Shadow, background, base line as in 1938-88-8209. Below is the plan.
Nude Woman Sleeping
Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776, ca. 1770
Engraving in crayon manner, black and white colors on blue paper
Print

Nude woman lying from left to right. The body is slightly turned to the left and the head bent to the right leaning on her left hand. Drapery curls diagonally around the left hip to rest on the right inner thigh.
Fragments
, mid-18th century
silk, silver thread Technique: plain compound twill with supplementary weft

White silk foundation fabric entirely covered in ground with secondary silver weft thread and silver frisé brocading forming elaborate decorative foliate motifs. Over this large-scale floral sprays in secondary areas, black and dark brown silk wefts and brocading in green silk and multicolored chenille.
Title Page
Pietro Metastasio, Italian, 1698 – 1782, 1755
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page for the fourth of ten volumes of poetry by Metastasio. The title, address and date are lettered within a rocaille ornamental border, featuring c-scrolls, and acanthus leaf ornament, fleurons, garlands of flowers, foliage, palm leaves, a cartouche and a trophy of musical instruments including a lyre, horns, and sheet music.
Elevation of a Fountain
, ca. 1790
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

From a three octagonal steps, upon a high pedestal, rises an obelisk, crowned with eagle wings upon a spire. Water pours from gargoyle-like masks into four basins standing at the lowest part of the pedestal.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: woven

Trimming fragment in a design of red and white chevrons on a yellow ground; picot edges.
Project for Part of a Decoration
François Duquesnoy, Flemish, 1597 - 1643, ca. 1630
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and wash bistre on laid paper.
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Two winged putti sitting upon a pedestal, facing each other, holding hands. Behind them rises a figure in a frame in front of drapery. A sitting child sits on each of the corners above.
Fragment
, early 19th century
silk Technique: twill weave with supplementary weft patterning

Small-scale design forming a diamond grid in cream, blue, pink, cerise, maroon and green. Piece is a fragment of a garment, with round buttonholed eyelets down left edge.
Floral Tailpiece
Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French, 1724 - 1806, 1760
Etching on laid paper
Print

Sixth plate from a series of six of tailpieces and fleurons originally designed for the 1755-1759 four-volume edition of the Fables de La Fontaine. A large fleurons or tailpiece made up of a snake intertwined with flowers and leaves on branches. The plate is numbered and signed.
Stage Design, Colonnade and fountains
, mid-18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Colonnade from right front corner to left back, richly decorated. Richly decorated fountains at either end. View into park at background.
Curtain panels
, late 19th century
silk, metallic thread Technique: appliqué and embroidery on moire ground

White moiré ground with an applique of teacups, urns and various ornamental vessels cut from many kinds of silk fabrics and outlined with couched gold thread. Medium blue silk damask borders on sides and bottom, scalloped and finished with narrow gold ribbon.
Sidewall
, 1850–60
Machine-printed paper

Irregularly-shaped portion of design showing vine and floral cluster; ground decorated with foliate shapes formed of small dots. Printed in greens, blues and browns.
Elevation et Coupe de niche
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Elevation and cross section of a niche with a half circle pediment, decorated with ornament motifs including lion heads, leaves, fluting. The plate is signed.
Ribbon
, 1850–99
silk

One ribbon [originally part of accessories and trimmings which were accession numbered: 1942-23-1-a/h].
Near Mt. Hor, Syria (Jordan)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February 23, 1868
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of rugged and barren mountains in present-day Jordan near Mt. Hor. Multiple craggy peaks stretch across the foreground, while a mountain ridge is visible in the background.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a general view of rugged, desert terrain near the present-day Israeli/Jordanian border.
Buttons
, late 19th century
Brass, steel and colored enamel

Enameled  button showing scene of gentleman handling flower to a lady surrounded by a ring of facetted steel knobs.

Component -a is on card 10
Component -b is on Cooper Union Exhibition card 8
Projet de grand Chandelier à branche pour le Roy., Chandelier à cinq branches avec un dragon, 2nd Plate
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1740
Engraving on white laid paper
Print

1921-6-212-27-a: Candelabra with five arms decorated with acanthus ...;     1921-6-212-27-b: Large cartouche in which "CINQUIEME/LIVRE D'ORNAME...
Title Page
Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763, 1753
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Plate with title printed down the center. The text is framed with an ornamental border. At the bottom of the plate is a small, oval cartouche with figures and attributes of architecture and geometry set within a site under construction.
Ornamental Vase or Fountain Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century, 1767-1793
Crayon-manner engraving with red ink on paper
Print

Lidded vase with a grotesque serpent spigot. There are two grotesque dolphins along the neck of the vase, and a garland of shells draping from the center of the neck over the shoulder. The bottom of the vase has a slanted vegetal pattern and a tapered foot. The vase is elevated on a base with three upright columns of stylized leaves. The print is engraved in red ink (sanguine) crayon manner. The plate is not lettered or numbered.
Debora
Hendrik Goltzius, Netherlandish, 1558 – 1617, 1588
Engraving
Print

The old testament profect Debora, in profile facing right, in a landscape. She holds a book in her left hand, her right is at her waist.
Two Peacocks in a Landscape
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Black crayon and watercolor on paper
Drawing

The birds are shown standing in an oblique view, facing each other.
Flower Branch, from "Fleures Persannes"
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808, ca. 1765
Etching on paper
Print

A flower branch with two blossoms, the petals of which bend toward the center forming a melon shape with small berries or blossoms at the center.
Design for a Woven Fabric
, 1815-1840
Blue, white, yellow, and green gouache on oily tracing paper
Drawing

Flower sprays. Three leaf scrolls are shown at left in a vertical row, another at right.
Cartouche with Eagle
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1738
Etching and engraving on paper
Bound print

Blank asymmetrical upright rocaille cartouche topped by a large eagle with open wings. Armorial trophies at left near a horned mask.
Two Arabesque Panel Designs
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1768–75
Etching on paper
Print

Two vertical arabesque panel designs printed on two separate plates featuring vases, incense burners, flowers, medallions with figures, baskets of flowers, snakes, festoons of leaves, foliate branches, birds, rosettes, swags of textiles, fleurons, fluting, and gadrooning. The plates are numbered and the right plate is signed.
Border
, 1860–70
Machine-printed and flocked

Horizontal rectangle. Row of scrollwork, accompanied by alternating stripes of red flock and gilt. Printed two across.
Bag
, 17th century
silk, metal-wrapped silk and coils of gilt foil on linen Technique: embroidered in half-cross, tent, couching and bouillon stitches using silk; brick and plaited braid stitches using metal-wrapped silk plus coils of gilt foil on plain weave

Design of coiling stems enclosing flowers and fruit. Plaited cord drawstring with tassels.
Elevation de lambris d'appui
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Two designs for paneling at the base of a wall. The plate is signed.
Alcove à la Moderne
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, ca. 1775
Engraving on off white laid paper
Print

Design for a bed placed within an alcove. The curtains are striped and there is a cartouche at the top center. The bedding and wallcoverings are decorated with rosettes, and there is a pendule clock at the back. The plate is signed.
Stage Design: Interiors of Gothic Building
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Four different outlining sketches for Gothic vaulted interiors.
Portrait of Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635, 1748
Engraving on paper
Print

Shoulder-length portrait in three-quarter view towards right. Callot is bareheaded, and wears a suit with a wide collar.
Design for a Brooch
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936, 1900–1925
Brush and white gouache, graphite, brush and yellow, blue watercolor on cardboard
Drawing

Bordering lines as 1939-84-20.  Broad ovoid with filgree, with blue stones; bordered by small pearls.
Evergreen Shore, Quakish Lake, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 4, 1878
Graphite on white wove paper
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of dense evergreen trees on the shore of Quakish Lake near Millinocket, Maine. Water extends from the foreground near the lower margin to the lake's shore in the middle distance at center. A dense mass of shaded evergreen trees looms over the water and lake. Above, two small, puffy clouds hang in an otherwise open sky.
Clouds over Rome, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February 1869
Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Sketch of clouds at sunset over Rome, Italy. Consistent in texture and type, these clouds range from light to dark as they spead across the composition. 

Verso: Landscape and architecture sketch showing an oblique view of a cabin with a low porch at its front. A door is visible in the building's facade, with a chimney in the roof above it. A window faces the viewer at left. At right, another structure is visible in the distance.
Arabesque Design
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802, 1788
Etching and aquatint on laid paper
Print

Arabesque ornament design with neoclassical motifs featuring vases, flowers, foliate branches, birds, a vignette with putti, snakes, ribbons, beads, musical instruments, sheet music, angel terminal figure, fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, textiles, oval roundel, and tassels. The plate is signed and numbered.
Design for a Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1805-1815
Brush and light blue and white gouache on glazed tracing paper
Drawing

A moulding and a crest border formed by leaves are at the bottom. Plant caldelabra are to rise from each fifth leaf. Baskets with a plant each are to stand upon a slit spital base in the intervals.
The Annunciation
, ca. 1575
Engraving on paper
Print

The Virgin, kneeling at prayer before her bed, is approached by the Angle, left, and above, the dome of the Holy Spirit in a nimbus. Below, two-line verse from the Gospel of St. Luke in Latin.
Designs for the Letters P, Q, R
Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s, 1767
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

A plate of six designs for the letters ‘P', ‘Q' and ‘R', from a series of decorative letters, published in Pouget's ‘Dictionnaire des chifres […]'. The plate features six ornamental inhabited letter designs, two per row, featuring putti, a male figure, female winged victory, a lion, armor, a painting on an easel, clouds, and pastoral landscapes, with rococo ornament, acanthus leaves, scrolling foliate, garlands of flowers, and friezes. The plate is numbered.
Man
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1879–1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Recto: Partial sketch of a male figure wearing a hat; Verso: Three female figures on steps in front of a building.
Schooner Near a Rocky Coast
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, ca. 1880
Graphite on paper
Drawing

Horizontal view from rocky shore out to sea, with three-masted schooner.
Elevation of a Palace
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1792-1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

The central part of the elevation is a variation of that in -1102, top, eith ramps leading laterally up to the colonnade in the second floor. Laterally are shown th ebeginnings of flanking colonnades of two stories.
Edging
, 19th century
silk Technique: bobbin lace

Edging lace showing a pattern of flowers and leaves that form scallops along one side.
Flora, with a Cupid
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815, ca. 1760–1770
Engraving in brown ink on white paper
Print

Flora sits, center, with her right hand she holds a garland high, and she picks more flowers from a basket held by the putto, with her left hand. Beyond, plants and mountains and clouds.
Sunrise, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May–September 1865
Oil and graphite on off-white paperboard
Drawing

Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of the sun rising over the mountainous landscape of Jamaica, likely the Blue Mountains. Steep and lush ridges recede from the foreground, through the middle distance, and into the background. Due to atmospheric perspective, they grow more faint as they recede into the distance. At center, the rising sun lies low in the sky and illuminates the atmosphere in warm tones of cream, peach, and orange, while the clear blue sky is visible at upper left and right.
Rank badge
, mid- 19th century
silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation, coral beads Technique: embroidered with couching and satin stitches on satin weave

Rank badge for a civil official of the fifth rank. Embroidered silk and metallic yarns showing a silver pheasant on a ground of clouds, surrounded by auspicious symbols.
Border
, ca. 1850
Block-printed and flocked

Simulated architectural molding, with bead and bead-and-leaf moldings. Printed in white, grey and blue with red flock.
Inkstand
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1810
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Shown slightly from above and obliquely from the right front corner. Not entirely shown at left. Below is a broad ovoidal base. Four kneeling mermen, who blow in shell horns, support a pedestal. It has the shape of an angular sarcophagus with two basins protruding at the ends. Their covers are decorated with calyces, their bowls with wreath medallions above branches. The front of the pedestal shows a trapezoidal relief of three women in the sea between moldings. Upon the four lower corners of the apparent cover stand putti carrying festoons with both hands. In the middle rises a fluted column with a band around the shaft. It shows medallions upon which there is a garland. Venus and Cupid, whom she evidently holds by one year, stand above. Colored background. In the upper left corner is a trace of a framing stripe.
Button
, 19th century
Brass

Slightly covex. Buttons decorated with an anchor. Double shank.

Component -a is on card i80
Component -b is on card 57
Component -c is on card C
LE PALAIS ROYAL
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

View of the Royal Palace (Palais Royal) in Paris, with the inner courtyard and gardens with parterre visible, surrounded by buildings. In the foreground, figures, horseman, carriages, and sedan chairs. A short architectural history of the building lettered below. The façade features rustication, windows, pilasters, and pediments.
Design for an Embroidered or Woven 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 fantastic plant is shown over the hollows of a pointed crest border. Six repeats are shown.
Stage Design: Library Interior with Arches
, early 18th century
Pen and bistre, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle showing the interior of a library. In the foreground, square columns support cracking arches. In the background, a coffered ceiling with bookshelves.
Design for Mantelpiece Reliefs, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1789
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Reliefs for the mantelpiece, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri; realized version carved in marble by Vincenzo Pacetti.
Architectural Fantasy: A Courtyard
Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778, 1742–46
Pen and brown ink with chinese ink wash; verso: pencil and black chalk
drawing

Recto:

Horizontal rectangle. A palace courtyard, bounded by a two-storied building at the rght and an open colonnade in the background. At the left is a fountain showing a basin held aloft by standing figures. Ruined masonry in the left foreground. A tomb at the extreme right. Figures introduced into the scene. 

Verso:

Rough sketch of a building or street scene. Undecipherable notes (in pencil) in French, below.
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

The doorway is flanked by two pilasters with dolphins supporting festoons at capitals. An entablature with a frieze and a semi-circular window above it are outlined at the top of the drawing. Above doorway molding is a classical frieze with a scene of sacrifice. Seated griffins appear on either side of the frieze. Above this is a lower entablature surmounted by an eagle. Several people and two dogs stand in and around the doorway.
Sampler
, 1741
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation

Assortment of religious and secular motifs including Adam and Eve with the tree and the coat-of-arms of the city of Hamburg. Two alphabets and a set of numerals at the top. Initials and date in central cartouche at top supported by two angels.
Hudson Valley in Winter, Looking Southwest from Olana
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1870–80
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard.
Drawing

Landscape sketch of a vibrant winter over the Hudson River Valley, looking southwest from the artist's estate near Hudson, New York, known as Olana. A prismatic gradient from red to blue punctuated with variously bright and dim clouds defines the twilight sky. In the background at right, the Catskill Escarpment, painted in a deep, dull purple, looms over the Hudson River, which may be blanketed in fog in the middle distance at left. Snow-covered landscape of Olana and Red Hill visible in foreground, loosely painted.
Ornamental Rosette Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century, 1772-1793
Crayon-manner engraving with red ink on paper
Print

Design for a rosette with four bands of ornament. The print is engraved in red ink (sanguine) crayon manner. The plate is titled and numbered.
Angles et Montans de Bordures Differemment Variés
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1745
Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Different designs for the angles and lengths of painting frames. The frame borders are decorated with ornament motifs including rinceaux, dolphins, serpents, branches, musical attributes, and shell motifs. The plate is numbered.
Album of Prints: New Book of Vases by Voisin Fils
François Voisin, French, active 18th century, 1786-1789
Album

Album of prints containing the 6 plates of the New Book of Vases Created by Voisin Fils, Turning Master to the King.
Flagon
Peter L. Krider, American, 1821 - 1895, 1860–80
silver
flagon

Long tapering neck on a bulbous circular form body with inscription around the waist, raised on pedestal foot, the handle a molded strap S-curve. Inscription: "They Drank of the Spiritual Rock".
Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818, 1900
steel, antler, silver
sharpener

Large fluted rod, tapering to point. Banded silver ferrule, silver collar with blade. Highly decorated relief floral, acorn and oak leaf pattern silver collar wrapping cylindrical antler stem. Capped with silver collar of similar oak and acorn pattern, terminating in boar's head, fit with red glass eyes, and exaggerated snarl.
Country scenes
, ca. 1835
cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave
Textile

Country scenes; an amorous couple, people fishing from a boat, and two girls reading a letter, in a diamond lattice grid of leaves and flowers. in purple on white.
staircase model Double-revolution stairway model
R. B., 1850–1900
cherry (wood)

Double staircase model with double revolutions and banisters.