biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text huggingface dataset:
St. Ann's Bay, Cape Breton Island, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June - July 1859
Graphite on light brown wove paper
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of St. Ann's Bay in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, and the mountainous coastline nearby, as seen from within the bay itself. Water extends from foreground to middle distance where it encounters the heavily wooded, rolling shoreline. Mountains abruptly rise just behind the water's edge form a deep, steep gully at center left. At center right, the foremost of the overlapping peaks levels out to flat terrain at far right.
Bust of Man Crowned with Vine Wreath
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909, 1875–80
Pastel on cream wove paper
Drawing

The man's head is shown in three-quarter profile, turned toward the left, crowned with leaves.
Cathedral at Popayán, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August 5, 1853
Graphite on white wove paper
Drawing

Architecture sketch showing a view of a cathedral in Popayán, Colombia--possibly the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption. The cathedral's lantern-topped dome and ornate tower are visible at center, above the apsidal end of the cathedral, which is shown from behind. The sprawling building is roofed in terra cotta tiles, which are also used atop other buildings in the foreground at right. At lower center, the tops of trees or bushes are included.
Portrait of Field Marshal Count Waldemar de Loewendal (1700-1755)
Johann Georg Wille, German, active France 1715–1808, 1749
Engraving on paper
Print

Bust-length portrait of a man, facing the spectator. Enclosed in wide oval frame. Arms and title below. Signed and dated in margin, lower right: "Gravé par J. G. Will á Paris 1749;" lower center "Les orn. inv. par H. Gravelot."
Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1793
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Above a few steps is a curved base, with two diagonally crouching lions. They support a classical sarcophagus, whose front is decorated who two winged half-figures supporting a festoon and above it a tablet. On top is a short pedestal with a variation of 1938-88-1316.
Square
, 19th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered

Central octogon surrounded by borders. Embroidery showing eight-pointed stars, diamonds, etc. in counted satin stitch with conventionalized trees, hexagons, and bands of openwork stitches.
LE JEU DU SABOT / LE JEU DU CERCEAU
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England, 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 scenes illustrate groups of children playing within townscapes with buildings and trees in the background. The left-hand scene depicts two boys playing with sticks and a cup on the ground with a bird on a ring above them. Below them, a chained animal looks up towards them, sitting within the rococo frame. The right-hand scene depicts two boys playing with hoops, with a bird cage above them; below them within the frame, a fountain with a dolphin. The titles are lettered below each cartouche and the plate is numbered.
Sunset near Rome
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, November 1868 - April 1869
Oil on paperboard
Drawing

Landscape study showing an elevated view of Rome at sunset from the slope of a nearby hill, possibly in Frascati. In the foreground, a rocky outcropping stands among grass and shrubs at left. In the distance, across an indefinite and seemingly wooded expanse, the dome of St. Peter's Basilica is visible at center right. Bright pink and red sunset clouds hang above the horizon in a sky that transitions from yellow and orange to a deep blue and green. Above, at center left, the silver sliver of a crescent moon is suspended above the scene.
Design for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

In the shape of a circular tower, with a figure on top. Below is a base of two steps. The bottom story is a colonnade with Doric columns before a back wall. Three steps are above it with female figures sitting upon the first one. The second story is like a pedestal with a band of figures aroudn the middle part of frieze. Above it are again three steps leading to another pedestal with festoons in the frieze. Colored background.
Trimming
, 19th century
silk Technique: woven

Yellow trimming fragment in a geometic design based on lozenge forms.
Fragment
, 13th century
silk Technique: 3/1 twill with complementary wefts

Paired small birds flanking a tree with fleur de lis. In gold on tan ground
Project for an Altar
, 1750–1775
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Elevation of an altar under an arch. At top, a broken pediment with a figural group on a cloud. Below, two angels frame a blank oval.  Below, a vertical rectangle is flanked by double columns and sculptural figures.
Decorative door boss and nail
, ca. 1550–1700
Steel-plated wrought iron

Square, shaped and embossed with wrought lines. High boss in center. Quadrant trefoil design. Collared spherical nail-head on square shank.
Woman
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1876
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Two sketches of a female figure seated wearing a dress.
Border
, 1900–10
Block printed on paper

Horizontal rectangle. Architectural molding, upper edge with scrolls, lower edge with arcs set with gold dots, bordered with narrow stripes of gold. Printed in gilt and grays on gray ground.
Decorative Panel Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786, 1777–79
Etching on paper
Print

Design for a decorative panel featuring arabesque and floral motifs including festoons of flowers, flowering branches, draped textiles, rosettes, scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux), arrows, s-scrolls, and fleurons. The plate is numbered.
Interior of a Gothic room
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

Interior of Gothic hall with indication of decroation; kind of alcove on the right.
Study for a standing woman, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1895–1898
Pastel crayon, graphite on tracing paper mounted to board
Drawing

Detail of female figure's head and shoulders. Squared with pencil.
Sidewall
, ca. 1700
leather, stamped, silvered, painted

Flowers and scrolling foliage. Very worn surface.
Le Pavillon de Mans où est la Machine des eaux à Chantilly (Upper Plate)
Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695, late 17th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Two plates printed on the same sheet, one above the other. The upper plate illustrates the Manse Pavilion, which housed a hydraulic machine to supply water for the gardens at the Chateau of Chantilly. Gates to the left, figures throughout the grounds, and trees in the background. The lower plate features a circular basin with a sculpture of a figure and rockworks, buildings beyond and figures throughout the grounds. The plates are titled.
Embroidery sample
, ca. 1790
silk, metallic thread, glass and paper Technique: embroidered on cut voided supplementary warp pile

Stylized pattern of stiff foliage worked in silk and metallic thread with white and orange glass brilliants on a black ground with a green and violet rib weave.
Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple
Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850, 1815
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, ruled border in pen and black ink on white wove paper laid down on blue paper mounted on cardboard
Drawing

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of open-air temple hall with two male figures on left side. Sky, trees, and curtain visible through openings at either side.
Trophy with Harvest Implements, Plate 6 from "Suite de différentes Attributs, Trophées, et Groupes de Fleurs," Suite II
Etienne Claude Voysard, French, 1746 - 1812, 1778
Engraving on paper
Print

A shock of wheat, vegetables and harvesting implements are grouped with flowers in the form of a trophy. Below, engraver's and designer's names. From: "Suite de differentes Attributes, Trophées, et Groupes de Fleurs," suite II, planche 6.
Flask
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903, 1880
Graphite on wove paper
Drawing

Sketch of carved powder flask.
Frame for a member of the Braschi Family
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, 1780–1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Drawing

Above is the elevation of the frame, whose upper part continues above as bands. Moldings form an inner oblong frame. On top of it are the upper parts of two cornucopias and the blowing head. The outer frame serves as a backdrop for them. It is convex below with three stars. At left are a plant and a plant springing from a fleur-de-lys. Below at left a rough sketch of the decoration with plants laterally, and without cornucopias, and at right the upper part of the inner frame with the bend above cornucopias which lie upon the upper rim.
Frieze
, ca. 1880
Block-printed on paper, embossed

Aesthetic-style design. Three repeats of symmetrical arrangements of intertwined vines with conventionalized roses, the space between the motifs filled with interlaces. Along top and bottom, narrow bands of leaf ornament set with roses. Paper embossed with pebble figure. Printed in red, blue, brown and gold on red-violet ground.
Study of a Boy Carpenter
, 1730–60
Black and white crayon on grayish-blue laid paper
Drawing

Boy is shown turned toward left and writing upon a beam, which lies on the soil. Left hand holds a chisel, right raises a hammer.
Design for a Brooch
, early 19th century
Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on light brown paper
Drawing

Jewelry design for a brooch. An escutcheon is formed by interlaced ribbons with rows of round diamonds. Outside and inside are large round diamonds. In the center, a large oval diamond, held in a calix.
An Old Place in the Rhineland
Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876, 1828
Black crayon, brush and wash, brush and white gouache on brown paper, mounted
Drawing

Frame houses in a village.
Cup and Saucer
Kloster-Veilsdorf Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1760, late 18th–early 19th century
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
cup and saucer

Cup with handle, on a round foot saucer with high sides. Both painted with naturalistic flowers.
Design for a Trophy
Mathurin Cherpitel, French, 1736 – 1809, 1755–68
Etching on laid paper
Print

Design for a trophy hanging from a tied ribbon. The trophy includes an armillary sphere, calipers, paper on a roller, a telescope, chain, and a small garland of flowers. The address is lettered below but the plate is trimmed and cuts through the lettering.
Stage Design of the Elevation of a Pergola
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
Drawing

View on long side of portico surmounted by pergola with creeping plants.
Design for an Urn
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, ca. 1790
Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and wash on paper
Drawing

Elevation of an urn decorated with a frieze of dancing women. The lower part of the body has gadrooning.
Elevation of a Wall
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754, 1745-1750
Pen and ink, graphite on paper
Drawing

Some details of the sparse decoration are suggested differently, and alternatively, in the left and right halves. Flanked by narrow wall panels, the central panel and two more with the door frames project. A decorated panel is slightly sketched inside the left door frame, probably reffering to a blind door.
Summer Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, July 1866
Graphite on tan wove paper
drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of the sunset over the Catskill Escarpment, looking northwest from Church's property near Hudson, New York. In the distance at center, the dark peaks of Acra Point and Windham High cast streaky shadows across the sky to the left, as the sun sets immediately behind them. The rugged, rolling Catskill landscape extends across the horizon to left and right. Above, layers of variously illuminated and enshrouded clouds form a dramatic sunset with patches of open sky at right.
Sidewall
, 1905–15
Machine-printed

Vertical rectangle. Floral designs in four vertical bands, alternatively broad and narrow, separated by light blue stripes. Printed in colors on white ground.
from a series of 12 "Ornaments for Goldsmiths" Grotesques
Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612, ca. 1570
Engraving on white paper
Print

Vertical rectangular design with diamond extensions. Within the center of the design a putti stands on a flower vase and is surrounded by two deer, two monkeys, snakes, trophies, and scrolls.
Design for a Balustrade
Gabriel Bonthomme, France, active ca. 1775, 1775
Etching on paper
Print

Design for a wrought iron balcony balustrade featuring scrolling leaves, foliage, beads, a floral diaper pattern, and c-scrolls. The plate is signed.
Two Girls in a Field
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910, 1879
Graphite on white wove paper
Drawing

Two girls walk in a field, their arms around each other's shoulders, caught in a moment of quiet contemplation, as often chances upon friends caught on a lucid pastoral summer afternoon.
Button
, late 19th century
brass

flat circular buttons with cast ornament in design of lozenges with interlacing scrolls.

On card 41
River Valley near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, June - August 1868
Graphite and white gouache on tan wove paper
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of a lush river valley in the Bavarian alps near the town of Berchtesgaden, in present-day Germany. Viewed from an elevated perspective, a river at the bottom of a deep, wooded gorge in the foreground rushes around a steep, curving bank at left. The relatively flat valley floor extends into the distance at center right and is bounded at left and right by steep mountainsides. In the background at right, the looming twin peaks of the Watzmann are faintly visible.
Mountain Range and Figures, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, 1883–1884
Graphite on light green wove paper; verso: graphite
Drawing

Landscape and figure sketches from Mexico showing views of a rugged mountain range and three figures. In the background, a craggy mountain range with two sharp peaks extends across the horizon, while a church-like formation is visible in its base at center. Along the lower margin, three loose figure sketches are included: at lower right, a child with long hair and tattered clothing; at lower center, the head and shoulders of a figures wearing a brimmed hat shown in right profile; and at lower left, the upper body of an individual wearing draped clothing, also in right profile. All figure sketches oriented to the right. 

Verso: Landscape sketch of a large, rectangular building nestled in the mountains of Mexico. In the foreground, loosely rendered terrain arches in a shallow "U," framing the view of a rectangular building in the middle distance at center. Flanked by vegetation on either side, the structure has multiple short towers and a white facade. In the background, a large, pyramidal, and loosely rendered mountain peak looms over the scene.
Cliffs at Grand Manan Island, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, August–September 1851
Oil on cardboard
Drawing

Landscape sketch showing a view of dramatic cliffs on the coast of Grand Manan Island in Canada, likely at Southwest Head. Made of geometic columns of hard rock known as basalt, the cliffs extend horizontally across the scene as their geologic composition lend them a sense of verticality and upward movement. Viewed from an elevated perspective above a curving sandy beach, the cliffs have a notably rough, even sharp texture. They are partly enshrouded due to the sun's low position in the sky, out of frame at right. Heavy green vegetation grows atop these cliffs, including several trees. Above, bands of puffy clouds stretch across and otherwise deep blue sky.
Strapwork Design
, early 17th century
Charcoal, pen and bistre, brush and watercolor on paper
Drawing

Strapwork with caryatids and masks surrounds an oval reserve.
Design for Tapestry
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754, 1720-1750
Etching on paper
Print

A lofty central arch is flanked by two lower and narrower ones. A statue of Venus holding an apple accompanied by puttos and birds, is shown under Flora and Zephyr upon clouds, in the center. Cybele and a girl holding a cornucopia and accompanied by a dragon are seated in the foreground beside an anvil with a smith's tools and weapons. At left: Pluto rides in a chariot drawn by dragons over a representation of Autumn, Bacchus as a boy and satyr children. At right: Neptune riding over the sea, over a representation of Winter, an old man warming himself at a fire.
Ornament Designs
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731, early 18th century
Etching on laid paper
Print

Ornament designs featuring foliate scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), a cartouche, rosettes, flowers, birds, putti, a dog, insects, animals, snake, mascaron (mask), draped textile, ribbon, festoons of leaves, fleurons, fluting and shell motifs. With an incense burner on three legs in the lower left, decorated with fluting, scrolling leaves, rosettes, and draped textiles. The plate is signed.
Fragment
, 19th century
silk, mirrored glass Technique: ladder, buttonhole, surface and chain stitch embroidery on plain weave

Fragments of green, yellow and red silk pieced together and embroidered in a stylized design of geometric and floral motifs.
Vis à vis
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century, ca. 1750
Engraving on laid paper
Bound print

Plate 1, Folio 1 of a series of 13 prints of designs for carriages or coaches. Carriage decorated with rocaille motifs, shown in elevation, with details of the various parts at upper left and upper right. Passengers seated inside the carriage would be facing each other.
Fragment
, 16th–17th century
cotton, linen Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft

Supplementary blue weft floating alternately face to face to form a design of triangles and confronted horses.
Decorated Capital Letter L
Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752, ca. 1715
Engraving on paper
Print

Letter L, before St. Laurence, seated on the ground, holding the grill.
Figure studies for a design of a clavichord cover
, late 19th century
Pen and ink, black and white chalk on grey paper
Drawing

Harlequin and another figure of the Commedia dell'Arte, stand in animated gestures.
Design for a Six-Legged Rectangular Dining Table of Mahogany
A.N. Davenport Co., 1900–05
Pen and black ink on thin, cream paper
Drawing

Rectangular molded table top with dividing stretcher center on 6 tapering fluted legs on casters with flute-stops; legs carved at tops.
Title page for Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 13 in Ouvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750, 1748
Etching on off-white laid paper
Print

1921-6-212-9-a: A crayfish lies over a shell cartouche and in fron...;     1921-6-212-9-b: Two Fish and a snake (?) lie above a shell fountai...;     1921-6-212-9-c: A rabbit and a bird (up-side down) lay over two cr...;     1921-6-212-9-d: Cartouche framed with leaves and vegetables and ti...;     1921-6-212-9-e: Two birds lie on top of a branch of acanthus leave...;     1921-6-212-9-f: Curving acanthus leaves lie on top of shell.50;     1921-6-212-9-g: Six plates depicting different vegetables. At cent...
Yosemite
Thomas and Richard Boote, founded 1842, 1883
Earthenware with transfer printed decoration
Plate

Circular form, the white ground with Japanese-inspired transfer printed polychrome decoration of a woman and child walking in a wooded landscape, the scene superimposed above bands and panels of geometric patterns and stylized flowers; the rim decorated with a geometric-patterned band encircling a ring of stylized flowers and leaves.
Border
, ca. 1810
Block-printed and flocked on handmade paper

Floral design with turquoise-colored chrysanthemums and brown flocked leaves, printed on hand-brushed taupe ground.
Design for a Round Table on a Carved Support
A.N. Davenport Co., 1900–05
Pen and black ink on thin, cream paper
Drawing

Round molded table top with dividing stretcher at center is raised on rounded carved support on cylindrical base raised on four reeded and carved splayed legs terminating in carved animal-paw feet on casters.
The Woman Taking Coffee
Louis-Marin Bonnet, French, 1736 - 1793, 1774
Engraving, etching in blue, black and red ink over gold leaf, with additional plate inked in mauve and green, à la poupeé, on off-white laid paper
Print

Portrait of a young woman, facing left, pouring coffee from a gilded cup into a saucer. The image is surrounded by a printed gilded frame.
Sampler
Ann Debney, 1773
silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: cross-stitch embroidery on plain weave

Hymn within two oval cartouches flanked by angels; at the top, a house with female figures and deer; at bottom, floral sprays and swans.
Button
, late 18th century
Copper

-a: flat circular button, cast in form of a series of blocks.
sundial compass
, possibly 18th century
wood, brass, steel, glass

Two rectangular pieces of varnished wood, hinged together with wire, and painted with discs and Chinese numerals in black and red. Compass sunk in glazed center of tower piece. Brass wire stretched between the two pieces serves as sun dial indicator.
Frieze with Cuirass at Center, Flanked by Two Genii
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550, ca. 1544
Engraving on laid paper
print

Horizontal rectangle. The cuirass is in the center of the composition between two winged genii.
Textile
, 17th century
silk Technique: 7/1 satin weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocaded)

White satin ground, with hunters, dogs, lions, peacocks, and trees brocaded in brillian polychrome silks and blue, red, and tan chenille.
Hercules and Cacus
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550, 1542–48
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Print

Horizontal rectangle. Hercules stands at right, his club held with both hands above his head, about to strike the fallen giant, Cacus. The cave of the giant is at left, and one of the stolen oxen peers from its entrance.
Sketch of Heavenly Figures
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909, ca. 1895
Graphite on brown paper
Drawing

Sketch of winged figures and putti.
Floral field and border
, 1780–1815
White on glazed paper
Drawing

Vertical rectangle. Fantastic iris-like blooms with projecting stamens and small rose blooms. At left, indications of a vertical border with a repeat of alternating lozenges and lines placed diagonally.
The Battle of Anghieri
Gerard Edelinck, Flemish, active in France, 1640/41 - 1707, ca. 1680-1700
Engraving on paper
Print

Four soldiers are in a cavalry encounter, while three others grapple on the ground below. After Leonardo's (now lost) fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
Border or valence
, 17th century
linen, wool, silk Technique: counted stitch embroidery

Horizontal landscape panel with lion under trees, horseback riders, pool and fishermen, and so forth. Fruit trees spaced across foreground and architecture in background. Stylized floral border with black outlines on all but top side. Work needlepoint with torches of silk: red, yellow, blue, green, brown, grey, and lavender.
Mount
, ca. 1780
Bronze (gilt), gold

satyr's head
Fragment
, 17th century
silk, cotton Technique: combination od two structures; plain weave plus plain weave

Frontal flowers and diagonal leaves in coral and white.
Project for a marble flower bowl
, 1800–1825
Pencil, pen, wash, ink, grayish paper
Drawing

The basin is decorated with a calyx, two ducks, a molding. It stands on a column, the shaft of which is surrounded by ivy. Underneath is a pedestal, showing at the corners the foreparts of a crouching dragon, which are connected by a festoon. Base with three sections. Bottom: a plan.