biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
Sepulchral Monument of the Three Last Stuarts
, 1788–1793
Pencil, pen, wash, Chinese ink.
Drawing

The half figure of James III, the "Old Pretender" (1688-1760) is shown between two of his sons behind the parapet of a loggia which is covered by a cloth and against the background of a door frame. James is in royal attire, Henry in pontifical, Charles in classical cuirass with a toga. A sarcophagus is supported by lions upon a pedestal at the bottom. The royal insignia and those of a warrior lie on a cushion upon the sarcophagus.
Sketchbook Page with Classical Scenes
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, ca. 1800
Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Drawing

Penelope Dreams of Ulysses Return;  Minerva accompanying Ulysses and Penelope to Thalamus; Study for a Figure of Penelope
Almanac for the Second Half of the Year 1792
, 1791
Letterpress, engraving, brush and wash on laid paper
Print

Scheme as -5. Represented are: Louis XVIII "Louis Stanislas Xavier / Monsieur, Frere du Roi" (1755-1824); his wife "Marie Joseph Louise / de Savoir, Madame."; "Charles [X] Philippe de France / Comte d'Artois Frere due Roi" (1857-1836); his wife "Marie Therese de Savoire, / Comtesse d'Artois"; their son "Mgr le Duc d'Angoulême, / fils de Mgr le Cte. d'Artois" (1775-1844); princess "Mlle Elizabeth de France, / Soeur du Roi".
A Complete Group of Clouds (Afternoon), New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1844
Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Atmosphere sketch of clouds in New York;s Hudson Valley during the afternoon. Puffy clouds of various shapes and sizes extend into the distance, while hilly, wooded landscape is loosely rendered below.

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rocky, mountainous cliffside--likely a view from Catskill Mountain House near Catskill, New York. Rugged and rocky landscape punctuated by conifer trees throughout, with cliff edge at right.
Box
, ca. 1860
paper

wood box with printed and embossed paper cover
Overdoor Painting and Paneling (Boiseries) Design
Jean Mondon, French, fl. 1736 – 1745, 1749
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a set of interior double doors (with only the top section visible) and an overdoor painting decorated with highly sculpted rococo paneling (boiseries), featuring flowering sprigs, flowers, c-scrolls, cartouches, shell and wave motifs, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), and dragons. The overdoor painting depicts a pastoral scene with a couple sitting in a landscape with a couple of buildings in the background. The man plays the flute and the woman holds a shepherd's stick, sheep and a dog by their side. The plate is numbered and signed with the previous publishers' address removed but still partly visible.
Sampler
, 18th century
silk and linen embroidery, linen foundation Technique: satin, stem and split stitches with drawnwork on plain weave

Flowers growing out of a scroll with cross borders in floral pattern.  Hemstitched on three sides; edged with narrow needlepoint lace on three sides.
Urn Finial
, 1750–1850
silver plated, metal
finial

Mount for teapot in the form of a footed neoclassical vase.
Sidewall
, 1850–60
Block-printed on satin ground

Bouquet of flowers: red roses, blue-gray carnations with green leaves, and yellow-green field grasses. Printed in colors on white satin ground.
A Landscape
, early 17th century
Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and bistre on paper
Drawing

At the center of a landscape if a cluster of trees whose trunks are filled with hatching lines. At left is a group of figures, one who wears a basket on her head. In the background, a town on a steep incline, rising to the left. Clouds in the sky.
Two Panels of Ornament Design
Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689, 1664-1689
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Two vertical panels of ornament design. The left panel features a bust of a woman, a frolicking child, and a mascaron set amidst scrolling acanthus leaves. The right panel depicts an urn at top of a scrolling acanthus leaves. The plate is numbered but not signed.
Sheet of Balusters
, 1700–1725
Black chalk on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Two rows of four balusters each, the left halves being shown.
Chair
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1785–1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
Drawing

Seen from the front. The front legs are a kind of twisted column which supports the lower ends of the arm. The frame of the seat about in the center of the leg. It has in the center of the front an oval medallion with the figure of a woman, recumbent. The upper part of the back is a curved oval supported by a shorter panel, both with straw plaiting. The oval has in the center of the sides two angular handles with a mask from which the arm springs. The back legs stand narrower together than the front legs. Usual background.
Clouds Over Hills, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1865
Oil on off-white paperboard
Drawing

Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of immense, billowing storm clouds over the hilly landscape of Jamaica. Treetops are visible in the immediate foreground and stretch across the lower margin. The middle distance is comprised of brown and gently rolling hilly terrain. In the background at center, the top of a billowing storm cloud is illuminated in a hue of bright, creamy white, while other rain clouds around it (and above the viewer) are dark gray and cast shadows on the landscape.
Stage Design: Proscenium and Orchestra
, ca. 1650
Pen and bistre, brush and sepia wash on paper
Drawing

Design showing decoration of stage wall with sculptures in niches and garlands hanging from above from cartouche in the middle. Arrangement to place orchestra.
Cartouche Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731, 1716-19
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a cartouche framed by a crown, mascaron (mask), unicorn, lion, spears, draped textile with tassels, fluting, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, fleurons, c-scolls, and festoons of leaves. The plate is signed.
Floating Iceberg, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June–July 1859
Graphite on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Seascape sketch of a single iceberg with three sharp, towering peaks near the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The ocean surface comprises the foreground, while the rugged berg dominates the composition at center.
Plate 2, from "Divers Ornemens"
Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772, 1730-1740
Etching on paper
Print

Rocaille scroll, on half of which is shown, with a slender central design at left. Behind the rocaille a branch of a tree inclines toward right.
Vase with Flowers
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Print

Design for a two-handled vase with flowers on a support or bracket, with a festoon of laurel leaves intertwined. The vase is decorated with scrolling leaves (rinceaux), a fish scale pattern on the body, and shell motif around the neck, with hanging rings from the scrolling rinceaux handles.
Tree Sketches, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, October 1865
Graphite on gray-green wove paper
Drawing

Botanical sketches showing two views of deciduous trees in Vermont. At left, emerging from a mass of loosely rendered treetops, are two large branches that host lush bunches of leaves. At right, an intermingled group of trees that includes a willow is relatively loosely rendered. The two sketches are divided by a horizontal line.
Friezes; Two Caryatids; Seated Figure
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823, ca. 1800
Pen and ink on laid paper
Drawing

Bottom: Frieze with four seasons. Sitting woman returning plates, upon which offerings brought to her, inscribed: PRIMAVERA. Grain harvest, inscribed: ESTATE. Drinking, harvesting wine, inscribed: AUTUNNO. Classical sacrifice of swine, inscribed: INVERNO. Top at right, two sketches of frieze with festoons supported by genii and sketch for figure of Spring. Top left, two caryatids: above upper parts of fluted columns rise half-figures of women carrying Ionic capitals upon their heads; Arms hang down and hold wreaths.
Study of a Seated Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, 1860
Graphite, white chalk on grey wove paper
Drawing

Elderly woman seated, facing frontally, her head slightly lowered and looking left, wearing a shawl and head scarf.
To the Ford at North Conway, By Road to Jackson, New Hampshire
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, October 3, 1854
Graphite and black crayon on cream wove paper
Drawing

Junction of two roads, with a sign, figure, and house at right. A pasture, at left, and houses beyond, with mountains in distance.
Pope Pius VI (1775-1799)
Francesco Piranesi, Italian, about 1756 - 1810, 1782
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Circular medallion portrait suspended from a bow knot.  A table shows the inscription: "PIVS SEXTVS / PONT. MAX." It is topped by a wind god and and flower boughs, and a garland hangs over it.
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument
Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831, 1800–1830
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Contour drawing of an arched niche encloses a frame topped by a small bust. Upon a pedestal between two seated genii is the bust of a man.
Decorative door boss and nail
, ca. 1550–1700
Steel-plated wrought iron

Square type, pierced and embossed with wrought lines. Quadrant design, the terminal spade-shaped elements in each quadrant pierced for secondary nails. Nails with round heads on square shank.
Combs
, mid-19th century
Tortoiseshell, coral, gold

A) and B) Tortoise shell side comb with cresting of gold and coral beads.
Ornament Designs for Ovals and Other Motifs
Jean Louis Durant, Swiss, 1654–1718, ca. 1682
Engraving on laid paper
Print

Page of ornament designs for ovals, with various other motifs.
An Altar Lamp in the Family Chapel of the Honorati in the Cathedral in Jesi
Luigi Valadier, Italian, 1726 – 1785, ca. 1775
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper
Drawing

Design for a lamp to be executed in partly gilded metals.
Fragment
, 18th century
silk Technique: plain compound weave

Tan silk with supplementary weft of the same color forming a design of lozenges. At intersection of lozenges are large floral motifs. Smaller, similar motifs appear in the center of the lozenges. One selvedge present.
Tapa cloth
, 1800–1850
mulberry tree bark (Broussonetia papyrifera); tapa Technique: beaten, printed and painted

Tapa cloth printed in design of brown daisies on white circles on brown ground.
Wall with Double Door
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. At center, a paire of double doors flanked by slender wall panels, each topped by small landscape paintings featuring architectural ruins. Scale at lower center.
Project for a wallpaper frieze
, 1780–1800
Pen and ink, brush and gouache, oxydized white on paper
Drawing

The repeat consists of group of three girls and a boy, dancing, and two boys playing marbles. Trees, plants. At lower margin is frieze transposing the triglyph motif into rail and garland.
Grand Trumeau de la Galerie d’Apollon
Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726, 1710
Etching on laid paper
Bound print

Second 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 depicts the ornamental panelling between doors or windows in the Gallery of Apollo at the Louvre. The two central panels and the flanking narrow panels are ornamented with grotesque and arabesque motifs, including strapwork, fleurons, rosettes, masks, acanthus leaves, shells, and fleurs-de-lys. The upper central panel, features an oval cartouche with a male figure holding a triton in a seascape with a seahorse and dolphin, flanked by dolphins, seahorses, and mermen. The lower central panel features a fountain with two dolphins. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
Title Page
Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795, late 18th century
Etching and engraving on white laid paper
Print

Design for a panel of horizontal ornament with a central wreath in which is printed the title of the series, surrounded by grotesque winged puttis whose legs turn into scrolling leaves.
Lock Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96, 1775-1784
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

Four bar lock designs with bead course, scrolling leaf, arabesque, laurel branch, and ribbon twist ornamentation. The plate is signed and numbered.
Floral Design
, 1740–1770
Black, white crayon, brush and wash on bluish-grey paper
Drawing

Two stems rise with leaves and three clusters of blossoms.
Sunset over Hilltops, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 1865
Oil and graphite on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a vividly illuminated cloud at sunset above steep, lush hilltops in Jamaica. In the foreground at right, a hill descends to the left, visually overlapping another verdant ridge in the middle distance at left. In the distance at center, a monumental billowing cloud catches the vibrant red and pink light of the setting sun, which also casts warm hues on the surrounding clouds. Behind, the evening sky is shown as a gradient from deep blue, above, to yellow-green at the horizon. A possible fire scar is visible on the nearby hill at lower right.
Fragment
, late 16th or early 17th century
silk Technique: 4&1 satin damask

Foliate diamond grid in black.
Peak of Chocorua
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, September 16, 1862
Graphite, white and black crayon on grey paper
Drawing

Rock ridge in foreground and at left.
Design for an Earring
, late 18th century
Pen and black ink, brush and gray, green watercolor on paper
Drawing

Jewelry design for an earring. The central diamond of the disk, the rosette and the drop are green. The central part is a knotted lace ribbon.
Head of a Man, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1883–1884
Graphite on light green wove paper
Drawing

Figure sketch showing a view from Mexico of the head of a man wearing a brimmed hat. Situated at upper center, the man's head is viewed in left profile. He has a mustache and pensively looks downward as the brim of his hat is tipped up.
Fontaine Rustique
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, 1770
Etching and engraving on paper
Print

Title page and a landscape with cattle and two figures resting against a fountain partly in ruins with foliage, and water running into a basin. The title of the series is lettered onto a cartouche set into a mound next to the fountain. The plate is titled, signed, dated, and numbered.
Landscape Sketch, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June 18, 1867 and March 1867
Graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a rolling, bucolic landscape in or near Hudson, New York. Treetops are visible in the immediate foreground at lower right, while flat meadows are shown just beyond it. In the middle distance, wooded hillsides at left descend to flatter, yet still rolling terrain with trees at right. An apparently open sky is shown above. 

Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a dynamic sunset sky over a mountainous landscape, likely in the Hudson River Valley. In the foreground at lower right, a wooded, sloping hillside is loosely rendered. A valley--likely with a river--cuts obliquely though the middle distance, while two succeeding mountain ridges comprise the background. One sharp peak is visible in the foremost ridge at left. Above, several clouds are brightly lit by the setting sun.
Cattle, Two Grazing Cows and the Backs of Calves
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920, 1875–80
Graphite, brush and gouache on cream-colored paper.
Drawing

Recto:  Vertical view of tow hind parts of calves at top; a grazing white cow shown in profile at center; and the same cow shown obliquely from the back at bottom.

Verso in opposite direction:  Two grazing cows shown from the heads, with the right one not entirely visible, at top.
Button
, 19th century
Pearl shell, glass, brass

Flat circular button of engraved pearl shell with disc of blue glass held in place by a brass knob at the center.

On card 31
Stage Designs, Castle in Landscape and Temples and Caves
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872, early 19th century
Pen and sepia ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle with two compositions. Upper composition: solitary castle in landscape. Bottom composition: caves in rock with sculptured columns and decorations.
Title Page
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711, 1711
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Grotesque ornamentation surrounding a medallion with the series title printed in the center and held aloft by two winged figures. The ornamentation features scrolling acanthus leaves, cornucopia of flowers, drapery, sphinxes, and birds. The plate is signed.
Landscape Sketches with Figures, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, February or March 1868
Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape and figure studies from present-day Israel or Jordan showing two figures and two views of mountainous terrain. In upper portion, a rugged, conical prominence is visible. At left, a ride on a camel is shown from behind. In lower portion and oppositely oriented, a sketch of a rocky mountain range is visible. Another figure wearing sheep skin and viewed from behind is shown at left.

Verso: Landscape study of a distant cliff face, with visible bands of horizontal rock strata. At left and oppositely oriented, two walking Bedouin guides are shown from the rear.
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, linen net foundation Technique: needlework on hand-knotted net Label: Silk needlework on hand-knotted linen net

Portion of a large scale, multicolored floral design on green knotted net.
Design for a Damask
, 1850–1875
Brush and yellow, red, blue, green, white, and purple gouache on oily tracing paper
Drawing

A vertical row composed of a part of a motif, a plant growing from a scroll with a dot, a bead.
Cherub
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1876
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Young figure held aloft and adorned with a crown and wings.
Rock Ledge near Chocorua Pond and Mountain
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906, September 17, 1862
Graphite and white chalk on brown paper
Drawing

Study of rock ledge with highest point at right. Additional rocky outcropping, center foreground.
Design for a printed fabric
, 1820–40
Pen, brush and black ink, watercolor, gouache on paper
Drawing

Most of a fantastical flower bough is shown obliquely on dark lilac ground.
Palm Tree, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, May 15, 1857
Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Verso: Botanical sketch showing the trunk and leaves of a palm tree in Colón, Panama (known to Church and other American immigrants as Aspinwall). Situated along the vertical axis at center, the tree is incomplete--it base of its trunk extends out of view, while its fronds are only partially rendered at upper center.

Recto: Landscape sketch showing a grove of trees in Panama or Ecuador, seemingly viewed from a waterway. Extending across the composition in the middle distance at center, the individual trees congeal into a billowing mass of darkened treetops. White birds are noted throughout their foliage.
Sidewall
, 1840s
Block-printed, applied lithograph, stamped foil

Two vertical oval medallions, at upper left and lower right, enclosed by framework in neo-Louis XVI style. Printed in blue and over-stamped in gold; diagonally repeating foliate medallion enclosed applied color lithograph displaying woman in the costume of a shepherdess, and of a man in red and white striped clothing, against a garden in the background; lower right medallion encloses another lithograph representing the figure of a woman in costume of about 1770, and a man with a lute. Vertical rectangle.
Woman Looking Out to Sea, Cullercoats, England
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1881–82
Charcoal on white wove paper
Drawing

View of the back of a standing female figure, dressed in the clothes of a fishwife, looking out to sea; parts of two boats are seen in the right background.
Portrait of Giuseppe Diotti (1779-1846)
Angelo Maria Damiano Bonini, Italian, born 1790, ca. 1820
Stipple engraving on paper
Print

Shoulder-length portrait of G. Diotti in side view.
Border
, ca. 1830
Block-printed

Acanthus leaves with water lilies and other flowers, above a simulated leafmolding. Printed in yellows, browns, blues and grays, with black shading.
Soldier Leading a Pack-Horse
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1862
Graphite on paper
Drawing Drawing

Recto: Vertical sketch of a group of trees partially drawn over accounts and a soldier leading a horse.
Verso: Horizontal sketches of a soldier and two artillery horses, and in opposite direction, hasty sketches of soldiers marching.
Landscape with Mound and Greenery
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877, 1793–1877
Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Landscape with mount and greenery.
Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso
Marie F. Lattré, French, active eighteenth century, 1751
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Page of text with elaborate border decoration, printed on recto and verso. The recto continues the description of the temporary hall erected at the Place Louis le Grand (symbolic of Spring) as part of the festivities held on February 23, 1745, in honor of the wedding of Louis Dauphin and Maria Teresa of Spain, and then begins the description of the temporary hall set up in the Place du Carrousel symbolic of Summer. The verso continues the description of the "Summer" hall, and then begins the description of the temporary space set up on the Rue de Sève symbolic of Autumn.
Pitcher
Jonas & Walley, 19th century
Glazed stoneware

Glazed pitcher in gray-green with relief decoration depicting family gathered under canopy, which sheet at feet; all over foliage pattern.
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"
, 1810
k.) paper and textile swatches (fibers not identified)

Component "k" is a page from Ackermann's Repository, October, 1810. Page contains printed graphics and three textile swatches: two woven and one printed.
Table round
Unknown, ca. 1908
cotton, rayon Technique: stem and knot stitches embroidered on plain weave, machine-made trim

Light brown table round with an embroidered border of yellow flowers and dark green leaves. Yellow flowers are made from knot stitches while leaves and stems are embroidered using stem stitches in dark green. Matching light brown border trim.
Design for Cartouche from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790, 18th century
Etching on paper
Print

Empty cartouche with crown, female cameo portrait, and two female griffins.
Sidewall
, ca. 1880
Machine-printed paper

Aesthetic style design with dense all-over pattern consisting of foliage; single-motif roughly diamond-shaped repeat in off-set rows; several varieties of flowers and leaves; stylized with some suggestion of shading through hatching; color scheme is of a dark and muted yellow-gold on dark gray.
Stuy of Maidenhair Fern, Trumpet Vine and Nasturtium
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929, early 20th century
Brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Vertical sheet depicting studies of maidenhair fern, trumpet vine and nasturtium naturalistically rendered. On verso, studies of roses, hollyhock leaves and elm trees.
Vine
Arthur Sanderson & Sons, Ltd., London, founded 1860, 1874
Block-printed on paper
Sidewall

Against a background of free-flowing branches of willow leaves, clusters of grapes and grapeleaves on a serpentine vine.
Wood engraving. Vignette.
, 1800–1830
Engraving and etching.

Trophy composed of a lyre, a flute, and boughs, suspended from a nail in a slope.