deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
The Arms of the Dutch East India Company and of the Town of Batavia
Object type: family arm
Date: 1651 – 1651
Materials: oil, panel
Artist: jeronimus becx (ii)
Artist role: painter
Subjects: coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ city; municipal), batavia
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Wapen Vande Stadt Batavia gelegen opt Eijlandt Groot Java int Coninckrijck Van Jacatra bijde Generale Nederlandsche Geoctroyeerde Oostindische Compagnie Verovert den 30 Maij Anno 1619’, signature and date: ‘J. Becx de Jonge fecit 1651’

These shields feature the arms of the Dutch East India Company, ornamented with Neptune and a mermaid, and those of Batavia, flanked by Dutch lions. According to the inscription on the latter, the city of Jacatra (now Jakarta) was ‘Conquered on 30 May in the year 1619’. That same year Governor-General Jan Pietersz Coen renamed it Batavia and built a castle with dockyards, warehouses and offices.
Reclining Nude Male
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: italy
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1500 – 1699
Dress
Object type: dress
Date: 1860 – 1869
Materials: silk
Culture: american or european
Zittende naakte jongen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1877 – 1932
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: marius bauer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1867 – 1932
Piece with Roman chariot and ruins (Furnishing fabric)
Object type: piece
Date: 1770 – 1770
Materials: cotton
Artist: bromley hall printworks
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1694 – 1823
Subjects: birds,men,women,goats,lions,chariots
Portret van Elizabeth Montagu en haar zoon George als Diana en Cupido
Object type: print
Date: 1769 – 1769
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: london
Subjects: mother and son(s) (family group), (story of) diana (artemis), historical persons - bb - woman, historical persons, (story of) cupid, amor (eros)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Elizabeth Montagu, als Diana, steelt de boog van haar zoon als Cupido.
Canapé
Object type: print
Date: 1895 – 1935
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: seating furniture
Inscriptions: number

Ieder Livraison in de serie Le Garde-Meuble bevat negen platen: drie 'sièges' (zitmeubels), drie 'meubles' (diverse meubels zoals tafels en kasten) en drie 'tentures' (gordijnen en draperieën).
Gezicht op Capstone Hill te Ilfracombe en de voorgevel van het Eastbourne Hotel te Ilfracombe
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1900 – 1920
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: (high) hill, façade (of house or building), hotel, hostelry, inn
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘This is a view (...) I. Slader, Proprietress.’
Studioportret van een jonge vrouw in een lange jurk met stippen
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1863 – 1870
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: germany
Artist: a herbst
Artist role: fotograaf
Tray in the shape of a peony
Object type: tray
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: lacquer
Techniques: carving
Culture: chinese
Studieblad met figuren, een gebouw en een paardenbeen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1880 – 1882
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: the hague
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: adult woman, adult man, horse, architecture

Pagina 9 en pagina 10 uit een schetsboek met 29 bladen.
A Woman Collecting Blood from a Sheep, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"
Object type: print
Techniques: engraving
Location: rome
Artist: anonymous, italian, 16th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1500 – 1600
Subjects: musical instruments,weapons,men,women,sheep
Nicholls, Philadelphia, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company
Object type: baseball card
Date: 1909 – 1911
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: american tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes

Trade cards from "White Border" series (T206), issued 1909-11 to promote sixteen brands of cigarettes and loose tobacco distributed by the American Tobacco Company.
Bastian, 2nd Base, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,baseball,athletes

The "Old Judge" series of baseball cards (N172) was issued by Goodwin & Company from 1887 to 1890 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes.
Candlestick
Object type: candlestick
Date: 1845 – 1860
Materials: porcelain
Culture: american
Location: united states
Auld Kirk te Alloway
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1890
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: alloway
Artist: george washington wilson
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1823 – 1893
Subjects: ruin of church, monastery, etc., churchyard, cemetery
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Alloway Kirk. Ayr. 91. G.W.W.’
Les Girondins
Object type: page
Date: 1856 – 1858
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print, engraving
Location: paris
Subjects: revolutionary committee, rebel group, political parties
Inscriptions: check stamp: ‘Goupil & Cie’
A Lady Reading (Saint Mary Magdalene)
Object type: painting
Date: 1530 – 1530
Materials: oil, paint, panel, wood
Techniques: painting
Location: netherlands
Artist: master of the female half-lengths
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Artist dates: 1520 – 1540
Subjects: mary magdalene, woman, towns, shields, religious, religion, red (color), reading, panel, landscape, jewelry, interior, headdresses, gold (color), devotion, coat of arms, christianity, christian subjects, building, book, black (color), bibles
Ewer
Object type: ewer
Date: 1567 – 1633
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Artist: bernard palissy
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1510 – 1590

The figures in cartouches on the ewer represent Faith, Hope, and Charity. The central figure on the matching basin (see 04.9.20) is of Temperance, surrounded by personifications of the four elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Around the rim are Minerva and figures symbolizing the seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Grammar, Dialectics, Rhetoric, Music, Arithmetic, and Geometry.
Musée de Cluny
Object type: photograph
Date: 1850 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: paris
Artist: séraphin-médéric mieusement
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1840 – 1905
Subjects: permanent exhibition, museum
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Rijks-normaalschool voor teekenonderwijzers Amsterdam’ Lugt 3937, workshop stamp: ‘Mieusement/ Photographe’, number: ‘Cluny 33’
Portret van Johannes Geiler
Object type: print
Date: 1759 – 1815
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: heinrich pfenninger
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1749 – 1815
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Andiron with cooking pots and a pair of fire tongs
Object type: kettle
Date: 1590 – 1596
Materials: copper, iron
Techniques: striking
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: willem barendsz., amsterdam, jacob van heemskerck

Centrally located in the ‘Safe House’ was a fireplace with a chimney above it. The food was cooked there and the men could warm themselves by the open hearth. When the ‘Safe House’ was rediscovered at the end of the 19th century, the andiron and the cooking pots were still in place.
El Museo Nacional de pintura y escultura
Object type: page
Date: 1880 – 1890
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: madrid
Artist: juan laurent
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1816 – 1896
Subjects: permanent exhibition, museum, ornamental fountain
Inscriptions: number: ‘7-14’
Mythologische en allegorische voorstellingen
Object type: print
Date: 1680 – 1800
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: monogrammist mp
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: orpheus playing the lyre: trees and rocks move, beasts and birds are enchanted, thiasos, i.e. bacchus' revel-rout, bacchanal without bacchus
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Drie voorstellingen op een blad. Boven: Twee dronken saters. Midden: Twee geliefden aan de waterkant. Onder: Orpheus betovert de dieren met zijn spel op de lier. Bacchanten belagen hem met pijlen.
Germaine at her Toilette
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1886 – 1886
Materials: canvas, pastel
Location: france
Artist: jean françois raffaëlli
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1850 – 1924
Subjects: interior
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "J.F.Raffaelli"

This pastel portrait of Jean-François Raffaëlli’s eight-year- old daughter Germaine captures her youthful awkwardness as she prepares to wash. She stands still in rumpled stockings and a wrinkled petticoat, distracted for a moment before beginning her routine. Her plain attire and blank expression contrast with the elegance of her surroundings, which include a finely decorated china toilette set and a gauzy, lace-edged red cloth.
Portret van Willem Lodewijk, stadhouder van Friesland
Object type: print
Date: 1614 – 1614
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: willem lodewijk graaf van nassau-dillenburg
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Portret van Willem Lodewijk van Nassau, stadshouder van Friesland. In wapenrusting, staand, ten halven lijve. Buste naar links. De prent heeft een Latijns onderschrift.
Portret van Jan Lievens
Object type: print
Date: 1645 – 1646
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: leiden, amsterdam, painter, print maker, draughtsman, jan lievens
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Prent gebruikt voor: Icones principum, virorum doctorum, pictorum, chalcographorum, statuariorum nec non amatorum pictoriae artis numero centum ab Ant. van Dyck ad vivum expressae ejusque sumptibus aeri incisae. Antwerpen: Gillis Hendricx, [1645-1646].
Lady with distaff and two boys
Object type: toy
Date: 1765 – 1765
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Artist: chelsea porcelain manufactory
Artist role: factory
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1744 – 1784
Subjects: boys,women
Handkerchief
Object type: handkerchief
Date: 1850 – 1850
Materials: cotton, linen
Artist: j.j. nef
Artist role: manufactory
Subjects: unicorns,lions,flowers,coat of arms
Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Object type: column krater fragment
Date: 534 – 468
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Part of the ivy from the panel border
Gloves
Object type: glove
Date: 1801 – 1833
Materials: leather
Culture: spanish
Terracotta vessel
Object type: juglet
Date: 1600 – 1600
Materials: terracotta
Culture: egyptian
Shawl
Object type: shawl
Date: 1845 – 1850
Materials: silk
Culture: british
Uilenspiegel was een guit, / En voerden vele grillen uit; / Doch kind'ren volgt nooit zyn leven, / Dat u geen eer maar schand zou geven
Object type: popular print
Date: 1820 – 1838
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour, letterpress printing
Location: rotterdam
Subjects: eulenspiegel
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 24 voorstellingen over het leven van Tijl Uilenspiegel. Onder elke afbeelding een tweeregelig vers. Genummerd rechtsboven: No. 23.
Pijp, model 'Goudse' pijp met lange steel en kop met hiel, vervaardigd van been.
Object type: miniature
Date: 1690 – 1710
Materials: bone
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1596 – 1610
Materials: chalk, paint, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Location: prague
Artist: anselmus boëtius de boodt
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1550 – 1632
Subjects: lizards: sand lizard

Natural science changed dramatically at the end of the 16th century: ancient treatises on the study of nature were rediscovered and supplemented with insights derived from personal observations. This new knowledge was conveyed in illustrated books. De Boodt, too, took a precise and encyclopaedic approach. He included a dorsal as well as a ventral view of this sand lizard.
Penningdoosje voor de penning ter gelegenheid van de kerstvlucht van de Pelikaan van Nederland naar Nederlandsch-Indië
Object type: medal box
Date: 1933 – 1940
Materials: copper, leather, textile, velvet
Techniques: pressing, sewing, weave
Location: le locle
Subjects: netherlands, dutch east indies, the
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Huguenin Médailleurs Le Locle’

Penningdoosje, aan de binnenzijde in de deksel met wit satijn bespannen en in de doos met velours een ronde uitsparing voor een penning of munt. Het doosje heeft een koperen sluiting.
Kneeling Female Figure
Object type: female figure
Date: 101 – 200
Materials: ceramic
Culture: san sebastián
Location: mexico
Subjects: women
Pair of vases
Object type: vase
Date: 1750 – 1760
Materials: porcelain
Artist: meissen manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1710 – 9999
Subjects: flowers
Gezelschap buiten, De Hoeve
Object type: photograph
Date: 1908 – 1908
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: photography
Location: amsterdam
Inscriptions: date

Foto op bruin albumblad 3 van familiealbum van Alphons Diepenbrock.
Portrait of J. J. Régis de Cambecérès
Object type: drawing
Materials: graphite
Techniques: brush, wash
Artist: jean-baptiste-françois bosio
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1764 – 1827
Subjects: men,portraits
Marie Stuart
Object type: print
Date: 1860 – 1860
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, queen
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1654, annotation: ‘offere au Musée d'Estampes A.Y. Labanoff’, check stamp: Lugt 142, collector's mark: Lugt 12
Cross
Object type: cross
Date: 701 – 900
Materials: copper alloy, enamel
Techniques: enamel
Culture: carolingian or merovingian
Hôtel de M. le chevalier de Knuyt de Vosmaer, construit place de la Liberté à Bruxelles. Façade principale
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1888 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: dresden
Artist: joseph naert
Artist role: architect
Artist dates: 1838 – 1910
Subjects: exterior ~ architectural design or model, civic architecture; edifices; dwellings
Inscriptions: number: ‘Pl. 14.’, inscription: ‘2me. année.’

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een omslag met 110 prenten op 90 bladen en 18 tekstbladen.
Cathédrale de Chartres - Portail Royal (XIIe siècle). Détail du Tympan
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1903 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: chartres
Subjects: church (exterior), statues, paintings, etc. ~ objects of worship in roman religion
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘AFE v S’, monogram: ‘EH’
Portret van Aristophanes
Object type: print
Date: 1787 – 1851
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: willem van senus
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1773 – 1851
Subjects: historical persons
Portret van Edward Leigh
Object type: print
Date: 1687 – 1743
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: johann georg mentzel
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1677 – 1743
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Handvat van gereedschap uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: tool
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: wood
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet

Tools and instruments, various tools, unclassifiable tool handle; fragm, deformed: oblong, rounded upper end, narrowed lower end.
Titelprent voor de beschrijving van de intocht van Albrecht en Isabella in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden, 1599
Object type: print
Date: 1600 – 1602
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: southern netherlands
Subjects: infante van spanje isabella clara eugenia, brussels, albrecht aartshertog van oostenrijk, wagon racing with two-wheeled vehicle, e.g.: chariot, sulky, title-page, southern netherlands

Titelprent voor de beschrijving van de intocht van Albrecht en Isabella de in Zuidelijke Nederlanden, december 1599. Titelprent met de Latijnse titel in een architecturale omlijsting met aan weerszijden twee zuilen met links militaire scènes en rechts putti. Bovenaan bustes van de aartshertog Albrecht van Oostenrijk en Isabella Clara Eugenia, infante van Spanje. Onderaan een hippodrome met wagenrennen. Onderdeel van: Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii principum Alberti et Isabellae Austriae archiducum, de beschrijving van de intochten van het paar te Brussel, Antwerpen, Gent en Valenciennes, 1599.
Hair / Ear Ornament, One of a Pair
Object type: ornament
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: gold, silver
Location: india

Ornaments such as these were worn as part of an elaborate ensemble of jewels adorning the head and body of a woman. The pearl-studded, bell-shaped pendants are known as jhumkas, and are commonly found on ear ornaments of this type. The hooks surmounting these jewels would have attached to the hair or headband of the wearer, and hung along the side of her face, resting near the ears. These ornaments were formerly in the collection of American artist and designer Lockwood de Forest (1850–1932) who purchased many jeweled objects while traveling in India between 1879–1881. Today, his collection of Indian jewelry in the Met serves as a near-comprehensive assemblage of late nineteenth century bodily adornment.
Pair of chairs
Object type: chair
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: wood
Terracotta conical-hemispherical spindle-whorl with flat base and rounded top
Object type: spindle whorl
Date: 1900 – 1725
Materials: terracotta
Culture: cypriot
Fragment (Dress Fabric)
Object type: textile
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: gold, textile, silk, silver
Techniques: brocade
Culture: persian
Location: iran
Faience amulet of a Bes image
Object type: amulet, be
Date: 330 – 30
Materials: faience
Culture: egyptian
Subjects: bes
The Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns
Object type: print
Date: 1520 – 1520
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: sebald beham
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1500 – 1550
Subjects: heads,christ
The Annunciation
Object type: print
Date: 1434 – 1466
Techniques: engraving
Artist: master es
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1445 – 1467
Premier cayer de panneaux, frises et sujets arabesques composés et gravés par Fr. M. Queverdo
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1788 – 1802
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Artist: françois marie isidore queverdo
Artist dates: 1748 – 1797
Subjects: water-pipe, hookah, narghile, tea-ceremony - cc - out of doors, asiatic races and peoples: turks, ornament ~ arabesque

Doordat dit album bestaat uit meerdere, deels eerder uitgegeven prentreeksen, is de datering niet consequent. Het geheel is op de titelpagina gedateerd op 1802. Deze reeks is gedateerd op 1788.
De serietitel voor het gehele werk is "Recueil d'arabesques, contenant les loges du Vatican". De andere serietitel is de titel van de specifieke reeks binnen het geheel.
Zuil van Trajanus
Object type: print
Date: 1550 – 1599
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: rome
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: zuil van trajanus

Een beschrijving van scènes 313 tot en met 320 op de Zuil van Trajanus, in het Italiaans. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Portret van Daniel Serrurier
Object type: print
Date: 1759 – 1759
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: leiden, the bible as a book
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Daniel Serrurier, predikant te Heemstede, Barneveld, Leiden en Amsterdam, staande in een venster bij een opengeslagen Bijbel.
Kneeling Bearded Old Man (recto); Section of a Draped Limb and Sketches (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1500 – 1571
Materials: chalk, charcoal, ink
Techniques: brush, highlighting, pen, transfer, wash
Artist: nosadella (giovanni francesco bezzi)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1500 – 1571
Subjects: men

Vividly rendered with pen and brown ink, brown wash over red chalk, this study was attributed to Nosadella, a pupil of Pellegrino Tibaldi, by Lawrence Turcic in 1979. His suggestion received confirmation in the old annotation, "nosadela", that was revealed when the drawing was removed from its old mount in 1980. The handling of pen and wash in the Museum's drawing is tipycal of the artist, may be usefully compared with that in a study of the kneeling Virgin by Nosadella in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. D 1530). The Edinburgh drawing is related to Nosadella's painting with The Presentation in the Temple (private collection; Sotheby's, July 15, 1970, no. 73 and Christie's, April 24, 1981, no. 95).
Compote
Object type: glass
Date: 1850 – 1870
Materials: glass
Techniques: glassblowing, cutting
Design for a Woman's Tomb
Object type: drawing
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: anonymous, french, 16th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1500 – 1600
Subjects: architecture,tombs,women
Halig Caire
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1910
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: cairo
Subjects: canals, waters (in city)
Inscriptions: number: ‘No 805’
Portret van Johannes Agricola I
Object type: print
Date: 1688 – 1688
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: berlin

Portret van Johannes Agricola I in een rechthoekige omlijsting. In een kader zijn naam en beroep.
Shard
Object type: shard
Date: 1101 – 1200
Materials: pottery
Culture: korean
Interieur Geref: Kerk. Oudewetering
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1905 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph, writing
Location: berlin
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: interior of church
Design for Two Seat Phaeton, no. 402
Object type: drawing
Date: 1850 – 1874
Materials: gouache, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: carriages

Brewster & Company History Established in 1810 by James Brewster (1788–1866) in New Haven, Connecticut, Brewster & Company, specialized in the manufacture of fine carriages. The founder opened a New York showroom in 1827 at 53-54 Broad Street, and the company flourished under generations of family leadership. Expansion necessitated moves around lower Manhattan, with name changes reflecting shifts of management–James Brewster & Sons operated at 25 Canal Street, James Brewster Sons at 396 Broadway, and Brewster of Broome Street was based at 372 & 374 Broome Street with a repository (showroom) on 14th Street & Fifth Avenue. By 1874, Brewster & Company had 400 employees and combined warehouse and factory facilities at 47th & 48th Streets and Broadway. Brewster successfully branched out to produce their own automobiles, as well as supplying bodies for Rolls Royce at their Long Island City location. Notable clientele included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, August Belmont, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Andrew J. Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt), William Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick and Pierre Lorillard. Talented draftsmen employed by the firm included Paul Steinbeck, Herman Stahmer and John Gribbon, the latter teaching at the Carriage Builders and Designers Technical School, which opened in 1880 and was housed initially at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company finally dissolved in 1923, its last owner William Brewster (1866–1949) donated its archive of design and presentation drawings to the Museum where he served as benefactor and trustee. Of all American carriage manufacturers, none was as highly regarded for design, finish and quality as Brewster & Company. They won many awards for outstanding workmanship, including the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) at the 1878 Paris Exposition (3rd World’s Fair). In appreciation for this achievement the Carriage Builders’ National Association presented them with a gold enameled Tiffany & Company plaque and autograph book signed by leading American carriage builders, both now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Merri Ferrell, 2016
Nightgown
Object type: nightgown
Date: 1890 – 1899
Materials: cotton
Culture: american