biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Design for a Fountain
, mid- 17th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. From among stones rises a round pedestal. Above it stands a sculpted figure of a boy upon a row of dolphins carrying in his raised arms a shell. In it stands a base with a dancing child, the water pours from the base, from the hands and possibly from the right raised foot of the boy. At the left and right edges are parts of sketches of fountain figures. The latter belongs to a corresponding part in 1938-88-553. Verso: At left sketch of a fountain: a young man stands upon a base from which water pours. Part of the sketch continues on the verso of 1938-88-553. At right, sketch of the cresting of a processional stick and part of a sketch of a dancing child. Below is a part of pen scratching.
Standing Woman
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1860
Graphite, white chalk on brown wove paper
Drawing

Woman holding sheets of paper or a book, to the left. She bends over slightly, to the front, and looks down. Dress with neckline showing bare shoulders.
View of the Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany), Part Two
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 26, 1868
Graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing the second part of a panoramic view of the alps and rolling, wooded terrain around Berchtesgaden in Bavaria (present-day Germany). This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves with 1917-4-956-a. Viewed from an elevated perspective, the scene includes several buildings and groves of trees in the foreground, particularly a church with a steeple at left and a shrine nearby at lower right. In the middle distance at center, a small, rounded hill is shown covered in trees. A group of buildings are situated just beyond it at right. At right, the foremost pointed and heavily wooded mountain is known as Grünstein, while the twin pinnacle peaks of the Watzmann tower behind it, partially covered in snow. Moving left along the rugged horizon, the Schönfeldspitze is visible in the extreme distance at center, while the Jenner's pyramidal peak rises at left, around several other craggy mountains.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing, at upper right, overlapping mountain ridges covered in trees.
Elevations et Profils de Portes Cocheres sous un Imposte avec Cartel dessus
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782, 1774
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Elevation and plan of an entryway with a hemisphere on an impost decorated with winged anguipeds holding up a coat of arms with crowned lions on it. The left side of the entryway features a lion head door knocker and a wreath. The plate is signed.
Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun
Charles Le Brun, French, 1619–1690, 1657–1716
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a Pulpit from a series of six Pulpits from Parisian churches. The Pulpit is illustrated in profile on the right side, with seven smaller line details for the moldings and cornice elements, some show ornament such as acanthus leaves, an angel herm and vase with flowers. The sculpted railing is shown in the upper left, decorated with strapwork design, rosettes, and foliage. A plan of the staircase leading to the pulpit is in the lower left with the title lettered within. There is a scale along the right margin within the plate. The pulpit is richly decorated with sculptural motifs such as an angel, herms, vases, garlands, vignettes with figures and scenes, and ornamental friezes.
Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735, ca. 1810–1820
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
bowl

Gold and blue rimmed bowl; at center, a landscape with figures among overgrown ruins.
Suite du Jardin de Bagatelle
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833, 1812
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

An exterior elevation and sectional view of the interior and surrounding buildings and garden of a large pavilion featuring a domed ceiling, decorative paneling, pediments, and sculptures in niches. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
The Christ Child upon an Altar between Two Saints
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863, 1820–1850
Graphite, pen and ink on paper
Drawing

The Child raises his right hand. The woman kneeling at left holds in her left hand a book, the cover of which bears the letters "I O". She stretches her right hand out to hold the Child. The woman kneeling at right tries to lift the Child by supporting his back with both her hands. Both seen in profile. A drapery covers the front of the altar. A tablet is in front of it, with the inscription "D I O . G". The room looks like a vaulted crypt, with "S H I" written at the back wall. Framing line. The outlines of the tablet are re-drawn on the verso. Written on it: "Ho 28".
Design for Coat of Arms, from "Livre de Cartouches"
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648–1719, ca. 1680
Etching on paper
Print

Plate 1. Four eschutcheons, four native men, title.
Woman
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1883
Graphite, pastel on wove paper
Drawing

Recto: Sketch of a female figure wearing a shawl and looking over her right shoulder; Verso: Partial sketch of a female figure.
Seated Woman
Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773, 1700–1773
Black crayon on paper
Drawing

A seated woman facing left, her chin on her left shoulder. One hand in her lap, upon an apron.
Burette
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783, 1748
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a pitcher with a handle with acanthus leaves twisting around it. The body of the pitcher is decorated with a garland of leaves. The plate is signed and numbered.
Cottage Scene
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877, ca. 1850
Graphite on thin yellow paper, mounted
Drawing

Half-timber farmhouse at left, before which are seen a woman and boy bending over a trough. Another house partially seen to right. Wooded area in background.
Painted Ceiling and Wall Decoration
, ca. 1800
Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

At top of page, design for a ceiling divided into segments following the golden ratio. At left, a hemisphere with two figures. At the bottom, two satyrs flank a vase. At bottom of page, the elevation of a wall showing two doors with oval overdoor panels. At center, a painted scene with figures in a landscape. Scale at bottom.
Cartouche with Ruins and Columns
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768, 1738–45
Engraving and etching on on white laid paper
Bound print

Lower section, large rocaille formation spewing water with reclining nude woman. Left, figure wrestling with ram. Above, ruins, figure with triton sitting atop entablature of two Corinthian columns, partial obelisk, decorative rocaille element on wall in tree-filled landscape. Left, figure growing out of tall plant holding fantastic border design.
Fragment
, 18th century
silk Technique: cut supplementary warp pile (velvet)

Small triangular fragment with a pink ground covered in tiny floral sprays of green, black and white. Bound on three sides with blue silk ribbon.
One of a set of four projects for the decoration of wall panels to be placed at a height
, 1675-1699
Pen, brush, sepia
Drawing

Architectural forms. On each side an angel and a garland.
Design for a Gate
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1789
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Design for an iron gate with a monogram rondel at top surrounded by sprays of leaves and floral cornucopia. The plate is signed and numbered.
PLATS ROND
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820, 1805
Etching on paper
Print

Four designs for round serving dishes with Empire style motifs. The plates are displayed overlapping, each with decoration in the center and decorative borders along the rims, featuring lobsters, snails, fish, portrait busts, fleurons, reeds, snakes, rosettes, and a hunting scene with figures on horseback. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Window Case
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, 1740–70
Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and dark brown watercolor on laid paper
Drawing

Broken pediment with very small cornices. The attic of the central part has an opening in which a bust rests. Above the window frame is a mask.
Design for a Bedroom
, 1800
Pen and ink, brush and rose wash, graphite on paper
Drawing

The elevation of a long and of the greater part of a short wall are shown separated by the section of a niche at the end of the long wall. The walls have respectively, two and one windows. At right, a mantel piece under the window of a short wall. Figures on candelabra are suggested for pilaster strips.
Chair
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Square-backed chair with octagonal cushion and volutes on crest rail.
L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE
Jacques Bacheley, French, 1712 – 1781, mid- 18th–late 18th century
etching on paper
Print

Sixth plate from a series of fifteen depicting children and the sciences, framed within decorative rococo cartouches, two per plate, side-by-side. The series is incomplete here. The left-hand scene shows a seated boy looking through a telescope, surrounded by a globe and papers. The right-hand scene shows a seated boy, holding a plaque with shapes, with a hand resting on a globe while holding a caliper. The titles are lettered within the cartouche, below each figure, with dragons incorporated into each frame. The plate is numbered.
Saco Valley from White Horse Ledge, North Conway
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, August 18, 1855
Graphite on pale green paper
Drawing

Rock ledges, foreground. Bare tree trunks, lower right. Valley and mountains beyond.
Sketch of a Male Nude with Notations
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, ca. 1860
Graphite on blue-gray laid paper
Drawing

Vertical view of a nude male figure without the right arm, shown de face, with proportions designated in uits of faces and noses.
Prospectus arcis regia versus locum ad stationes mutandas
Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801, 
Hand-colored etching on paper; verso: fabric adhered with thread
Bound print

Perspective view of the Royal Palace in Berlin. The palace façade stretches across the midground, with four rows of windows topped by a line of statuary. The windows are cut out, with thread and colored fabric visible through the openings. In front of the palace horse-drawn carriages, soliders carrying rifles, and pedestrians roam the open area.  A dark shadow is cast across the bottom edge of the scene, and a blue sky fills the upper margin.  Printed along bottom margin: Prospectus arcis regia versus locum ad stationes mutandas / Prospetto del Palazzo Reale verso della piazza della Parada

Verso: Patches of colored and patterned fabric, visibly attached with thread. Printed label: La veue du Palais du Roy du côté de la Parade à Berlin. / Prospect des Königl: Schlosses gegen dem Parade Plaz zu Berlin. / Med: Folo. No. 42. / Cum. Priv. Sac. Caes. Majestsatis. / Georg Balthasar Probst, excud. A.V.
Kimono
, 19th century
silk and gilded paper thread embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: stencil-printed and embroidered in satin and couching stitches

White "grass cloth" kimono, printed in blue and brown ink and embroidered in colored silks and  metallic yarns with pine trees, bamboo, plum blossoms, clouds, a stream crossed by a bridge, birds, etc. Lined in silk.
Design for a Book Binding
Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961, ca. 1896–1903
Brush and gouache, gold paint on paper
Drawing

On dark gray ground, green vines and light blue flowers; rectangular gold painted cartouche.
View above Wadi Barada, Syria, Part Two
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 4, 1868
Graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing the second part of a panoramic view looking west over the Wadi Barada--a river and canyon northwest of Damascus, Syria. This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves, including 1917-4-655-a. At lower center, the Wadi Barada, highlighted in white gouache, snakes its way through a steep and narrow canyon with abrupt walls on either side. A large, rugged prominence dominates the left side of this view, while at right, a rocky outcropping and the sheer cliffs beyond are visible in the foreground and middle distance. A barren, extremely rugged landscape stretches across the background with one sharp peak at upper center and several hill ranges at left and right.
Landscape with Trees, Grand Manan Island, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1851
Graphite on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of trees on the edge of a lake or pond on Grand Manan Island in Canada. In the foreground at left, a portion of a fallen tree is semi-submerged near a patch of reeds or water grass. At right, two large trees, rendered in great detail, have thick trunks and lush canopies that partially hang over the water at center. The dark areas of dense vegetation around and behind the trees are shaded through deft diagonal hatching. Visible at lower center, the body of water stretches across the middle distance until it reaches the heavily wooded opposite shoreline in the background. The distant treetops form a unified, billowing mass.
Plan et Elévation de la Porte de l’Eglise des Theatins
A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768, 1760–90
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a set of exterior double doors decorated with rococo ornament and motifs. The arched doors are each divided into five molded panel sections (boiseries). The central vertical panels are arched and feature a central cartouche framed by shell, fleurons, c-scrolls and festoons of flowers and leaves. With upper and lower clasps in the form of shells. The lower clasps include animal masks (mascarons). Two narrow horizontal panels above are decorated with stars, textiles, crowns of thorns, leaves, and fleurs-de-lys. The upper arched panels feature incense burners, leaves, gadrooning, c-scrolls, and scrolling leaves. The lower panels of the doors are decorated with star marquetry designs. There is a plan view of the doors and a scale below. The plate is titled, and the signatures have been taken out at lower right and left corners. Another copy of this plate with slight variations and differing titling is bound in this album 1921-359-4.
Stage Design, Crypt
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872, early 19th century
Pen and sepia ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Crypt, vaults supported by columns, stairs leading into it from above at left.
Ornamental Trophy Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1759–80
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Ornamental trophy design of flowers framed by branches of flowers and leaves. Possibly a design for a fire screen or hand fan.
Designs for Scrollwork Escutcheons
, mid- 17th century
Red chalk, pen and ink on paper
Drawing

Vertical format sheet with designs for scrollwork escutcheons. Left row, top: a left half, ink, and a right half, chalk, pushed together. The latter shows a fruit festoon. Center: a left half, ink, and at right, chalk, ink. A mark is in the bottom center of the first one. Bottom and right half; a shell forms the field. Right row, top: a left half, with a hand on top. Bottom: a left half, the lower part of which stands in front of a pedestal, is united with a right half of a different design. A mark is in the center top of the former. A festoon connects one of the lateral scrolls with a spiral at the pedestal.
Fragment
, 1750–1800
silk Technique: cut voided supplementary warp pile in a satin foundation (velvet) with supplementary weft

Small-patterned or "miniature" velvet with a border design. Ground has small continuous lozenges, each enclosing a minute flower in red and green. Border design of slender sprays of red and pink flowers and green feathery foliage. Design outlined by voided ground, which is covered by secondary pale blue silk weft.
Two Furniture Leg Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1788
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Two furniture leg designs, arranged horizontally on the page. The left leg features a top block with a carved rosette within a square inset, a deep cove, and a shoulder with a wave pattern. The shaft is fluted, with cabled darts halfway down. The furniture leg at right has a top block with a carved rosette set within a square inset, a cove of acanthus leaves, gadrooning at the shoulders, and fluting down the shaft. The plate is signed, and possibly was numbered; the print was trimmed at some point.
Sidewall - fragment
, 1870–75
Machine-printed on machine-made paper

A small asymmetrical design composed of scrolls and leaf sprays. This paper was the fourth layer from the top of six layers found on walls in the old Jacob Ruf farmhouse in Kaaterskill Junction, New York.
Title Page
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679, ca.1635–ca.1660
Etching on laid paper
Print

Title page for a series of architectural prints. Title lettered within a molded frame, possibly a door frame with a molded outer frame and overdoor cartouche above. The molding features c-scrolls, rosettes, leaf motifs, a roundel, fleurons, and a festoon of leaves. The margins are inscribed with red ink or wash.
Title Plate
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770, 1772–79
Etching on cream laid paper
Bound print

At center, a cartouche surrounded by putti at left and right, each holding the support of a banner at top. The title of the series is printed on the cartouche between the putti. Above the escutcheon, a crown of laurel leaves. The plate is numbered but not signed.
Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament
Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690, 1660
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Designs for gun parts (flint lock and ornament) decorated with grotesque ornaments, mascarons (masks), fantastical animals, cartouche, birds, snake, eagle, drapery, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), rosettes, and fleurons. The plate is numbered.
Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, 1755–57
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

An ornate mantelpiece, decorated with sculpted reliefs of lion heads and scrolls, occupies the center of the design. A carved frame, supported by pilasters and ornamented with garlands, rosettes, and griffins terminates in a triangular pediment. The overmantel contains an antique bust of Antinous in profile lightly drawn in graphite. Flanking the mantelpiece are two men. On the right, a man who seems to be of humble origins, accompanied by a dog, crouches, holding wooden planks. On the left, a well-dressed man stands and watches, holding a walking stick.
Place Vendôme During the Fair of Saint-Ovide, Paris
, ca. 1755
Hand-colored etching on paper
Print

For a peep show. Horizontal rectangle. The statue of Louis XIV is flanked by rows of two wooden huts each. That in front at left houses at the front the "JEU/DU SIEUR/NICOLLE," and laterally a shop of a woodcarver. The hut at the back of the row at right contains a "SALLE DE BILLIARD," that at the front the "JEU/DU SIEUR/GAUDON." The writing is in inverse direction. The palce is crowded by other huts and by people.
Panel Design (Left Plate)
Bellay, French, active from 1734, ca.1734-49
Etching and engraving: counterproof on laid paper
Print

A counterproof of a print from this series (1921-6-490-19). Two designs for ornamental panels printed from the same plate but cut and pasted side-by-side. The designs feature rococo and chinoiserie motifs with ornately decorated frames featuring leaves, c-scrolls, feathers, shells, rinceaux, cartouches, bells, fleurons, a bow and quiver of arrows, and vases. In the center of each panel are figures within fantastical landscapes. To the right, a man sits crossed legged on a river bend with canopies and a fantastical monument behind him. To the left, two figures sitting on the platforms/ steps stemming from the borders, one of them holding an axe, with a bird flying above.
After the Hunt: Two Hounds beside a Boar's Head
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 – 1755, 1740
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, white gouache on brown-gray paper mounted on cardboard, ruled border in pen and black ink
Drawing

Two dogs, one laying and one standing, are beside a boar's head and part of a lion's hide at the base of a classical ruin, in a landscape setting at lower right.
Goat Island, Niagara River, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, September 1858
Graphite and white gouache on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape and botanical sketch showing a crowded view of a woodland scene with bushes and small trees in the foreground, and larger trees and other foliage shown in the background. White clouds are visible through the treetops at upper left.
Sidewall
, 1800–1850
Paper with applied ground color, unprinted

Paper with an all-over green ground with no printed design. Has the appearance of arsenic green.
Plans de deux Projets pour l'Autel de St. Leu de Paris (Plans for Two Designs for the Altar of St. Leu of Paris), plate 107, in 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

1921-6-212-64-a: Plan of altar with stairs and scales.50;     1921-6-212-64-b: Plan of designs for altars.50
Basin
Unknown, Chinese, 1685–1700
porcelain
basin

Chinese export blue and white deep bowl, or basin. The central scene of the interior is painted in deep underglaze blue with European court ladies standing on a terrace strewn with flowers, each holding a floral sprig to smell while a servant to one side bears a basket of more flowers. The exterior is decorated with freely painted with floral sprigs.
Finger ring
The Kalo Shop, 1900–1970, 1905–14
Wrought gold, baroque pearls

Three irregular freshwater pearls aligned vertically and framed within a border of gold flowers and leaves, mounted on a thin gold band.
Border
, 1880–1900
Block-printed on paper

Alternating oak leaf and carnation, printed in deep red and green on vermiculated background.
Fragment
Saunier, 1750–1800
linen Technique: block printed using resist, then indigo dyed on plain weave

Curving ribbon with flowers at left, vase of flowers on a table at the right.
Design for Sideboard with Serpentine Front and Three Drawers
A.N. Davenport Co., 1900–05
Graphite and pen and red ink on thin cream paper
Drawing

Oblong sideboard with 6 straight tapering legs; tri-partite serpentine front has 3 drawers arranged in 2 rows at center, flanked by 2 doors.
No. 126
Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917, ca. 1870
Mouth-blown crystal, hand-painted gold
Finger bowl

Mouth-blown crystal finger bowl with engraved "R", hand-painted with gold rims.
Underdress
, ca. 1827
cotton, linen Technique: embroidered

Sheer white cotton chemise embroidered with floral motif along hem.
Fragment
Philippe de la Salle, French, 1723–1803, 18th century
silk Technique: embroidered on plain satin

Breadth of cream satin with design in pastel chain stitch and touches of black.  Set sidewise on it: arched garland caught with bow and heavy tassels at top over small landscape with crane-like bird bent over snail.  Sides cut in shape of arms of cross.  Two broad selvages with pink pencil stripes, narrow cloth outer edge.
Six Studies of Thistles
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929, early 20th century
Brush and watercolor on white paper
Drawing

Six studies of thistles blooming painted in violet and green watercolor