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Coach #786
Object type: drawing
Date: 1865 – 1865
Materials: ink, watercolor
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
"Rustam Seizes Afrasiyab by the Girdle and Lifts him from the Saddle", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Object type: folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date: 1430 – 1440
Materials: gold, ink, paper, watercolor
Techniques: dyeing
Location: india
Artist: abu'l qasim firdausi
Artist role: author
Artist nationality: iranian
Artist dates: 935 – 1020
Subjects: battles,swords,men,horses

The action here depicts Rustam on an orange horse as he grasps his enemy Afrasiyab and pulls him off his horse. To Rustam’s chagrin, the belt breaks, and Afrasiyab falls to the ground, where he is rescued by his allies. This painting comes from a copy of the highly Persianate Shahnama that was probably made in northern India. The paintings from this book were later cut out and placed in an album with brightly colored borders.
Plate
Object type: plate
Date: 1771 – 1772
Materials: silver
Artist: edme-pierre balzac
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1705 – 1786
Alexander ontvangt Talestris
Object type: print
Date: 1529 – 1542
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Artist: monogrammist fg
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: (story of) the amazons, thalestris, queen of the amazons, comes to meet alexander
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Alexander de Grote, omgeven door mannelijke soldaten, is opgestaan uit zijn stoel en steekt zijn hand uit naar de amazone Talestris. Talestris wordt bijgestaan door amazones.
Herderin met schapen voor een boerderij
Object type: print
Date: 1791 – 1791
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: haarlem
Artist: leendert overbeek
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1752 – 1815
Subjects: herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Vase with Elephant Heads and Cloud Designs
Object type: vase
Date: 1736 – 1795
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Techniques: incising
Culture: chinese
Subjects: elephants

In the eighteenth century, the kilns at Jingdezhen began to make porcelains of a different material. Known as huashi, or "slippery stone," this expensive material, often called soft paste, was used to make thin vessels that frequently were decorated with incised or raised designs under glaze. While the reasons for its introduction remain unclear, it is worth noting that soft paste is easily carvable, and its use would have thus been akin to contemporaneous interests in the manipulation of other materials such as ivory and bamboo. The shape of this vase is loosely based on Bronze Age vessels whose handles were shaped like the heads of animals.
Hercules and Antaeus
Object type: print
Date: 1852 – 1852
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: eugène delacroix
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1798 – 1863
Subjects: women,hercules
Heer staand met zijn handen in zijn zij
Object type: drawing
Date: 1660 – 1669
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: zwolle
Artist: gesina ter borch
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1633 – 1690
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Snow Shelter for a Tree with Sparrow
Object type: painting
Date: 1882 – 1882
Materials: lacquer, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: shibata zeshin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1807 – 1891
Subjects: birds,trees

The strong color effect seen in this album is achieved by using lacquer as a painting medium. Painting with lacquer on paper was one of the techniques Zeshin developed into his own style. Despite the heavy material, Zeshin's skillful brushwork and his technical inventions with the material made it possible to create various textures as with ink painting. In addition, some lacquer techniques, like mother-of-pearl inlays and the creation of rough surfaces, are also used. Up until the middle of the Meiji period, lacquer was limited to roughly five colors—black, brown, vermillion, green, and yellow—which determined the color palette of Zeshin's lacquer paintings.
Paddling the Wounded British Officer
Object type: painting
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: canvas, oil
Location: new york
Artist: frederic remington
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1861 – 1909
Inscriptions: Signed, lower left: "Frederic Remington"
Composition Study for "Castor and Pollux Freeing Helen"
Object type: drawing
Date: 1817 – 1817
Materials: crayon, paper
Techniques: stumping
Artist: joseph-ferdinand lancrenon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1794 – 1874
Subjects: human figures,weapons,helen

Lancrenon was a student of Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson, whose elegant Neoclassical style he closely emulated. He competed for the Prix de Rome in 1817, when the subject assigned was Castor and Pollux freeing Helen. In Greek and Roman mythology, Helen of Troy was carried off to Athens by Theseus as a young girl and rescued by her twin brothers, Castor and Pollux. This drawing is one of eight preliminary studies in the museum's collection, together showing the distinct steps the artist used to plan his canvas, executing a series of gradually more precise compositional studies, followed by studies of facial expression as well as figure and drapery studies. Lancrenon used black chalk, stumping, and white chalk on a variety of different papers to emphasize the sinuous contours and to delicately model the forms.
The Bucintoro Moving to the Left (recto); The Bucintoro Moving to the Right (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1712 – 1793
Materials: ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: francesco guardi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1712 – 1793
Subjects: ships
Faience amulet of a goddess with feline head
Object type: amulet, bast
Date: 664 – 630
Materials: faience
Culture: egyptian
Subjects: lions

Amulets representing animals were attributed to a deity: a hawk for Ra, the Sun God, a lion for Sakhmi, the War Goddess, a ram for Khnum and a cat for Bast.
The High School, Stirling, Doorway in Observatory Tower
Object type: page
Date: 1884 – 1889
Materials: paper
Techniques: photolithography
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: secondary education, gate, entrance
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘J.M. Mc Laren Architect/ Architectural Illustration Society. Second Series. Plate No.149’

Prent op elfde ongenummerde pagina na pagina 178.
The Fable of the Miller, His Son and the Donkey  No. 1
Object type: drawing
Date: 1860 – 1861
Materials: graphite, paper
Culture: american
Artist: elihu vedder
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1836 – 1923
Subjects: boys,men,donkeys

During a visit to Cádiz, Spain in 1860–61, Vedder grew homesick for Italy—where he spent most of his life— and made several sketches in which he imagined Aesop’s classic fable "The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey" set in the characteristic hill towns and scenic countryside of medieval Tuscany. For his final composition, Vedder divided the story into nine scenes. Shown here are studies for eight of them—missing is the penultimate scene, in which the miller and his son head home after the death of the donkey, presumably reflecting on the moral of the story: "Try to please all and you end by pleasing none."
Portret van Justus Lipsius
Object type: print
Date: 1694 – 1755
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: louvain, justus lipsius
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portretbuste naar links van Justus Lipsius, humanist en geleerde, blootshoofds en met bontkraag. Zijn linkerhand rust op de kop van een hond, de rechterhand steunt op een boek. Rondom een ornamentele omlijsting, onder het portret de naam van de geportretteerde en een achtregelig Nederlands vers.
Nations of Asia ballets
Object type: print, fete, ornament architecture
Date: 1601 – 1700
Techniques: etching
Artist: anonymous, italian, 17th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1600 – 1700
Subjects: men,dancing

Three plates on one sheet illustrating ballets introduced by three Asian nations. The first with the representation of Cupid at center, the second with Proteus, and the third with Pomona.
Portrait of a Woman
Object type: painting, miniature
Date: 1790 – 1800
Materials: ivory
Artist: german painter
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Subjects: portraits,women
Two designs for panels to decorate a hunting lodge
Object type: drawing
Date: 1830 – 1897
Materials: graphite, paper
Artist: jules-edmond-charles lachaise
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1897 – 1897
Portret van Robert Lowth
Object type: print
Date: 1778 – 1778
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: england
Subjects: archbishop, bishop, etc. (roman catholic), historical persons
Inscriptions: date

Prent waarschijnlijk uit: The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, november 1787.
Corset cover
Object type: corset cover
Date: 1902 – 1902
Materials: cotton
Culture: american
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
Object type: bust
Materials: marble
Artist: joseph nollekens
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1737 – 1823
Subjects: men,portraits

The classicizing bust of the author of the celebrated Tristram Shandy, who sat for Nollekens in Rome, is said to have launched the sculptor's career. Nollekens sold replicas as independent portraits, or paired, as here, with his bust of Alexander Pope.
Die Teinkirche
Object type: page
Date: 1885 – 1890
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: prague
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: church (exterior)
1 of Nooses, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Object type: playing card
Date: 1475 – 1480
Materials: glaze, gold, ink, paint, paper, silver
Techniques: pen
Culture: south netherlandish
Subjects: playing cards,games

The Cloisters set of fifty-two cards constitutes the only known complete deck of illuminated ordinary playing cards (as opposed to tarot cards) from the fifteenth century. There are four suits, each consisting of a king, queen, knave, and ten pip cards. The suit symbols, based on equipment associated with the hunt, are hunting horns, dog collars, hound tethers, and game nooses. The value of the pip cards is indicated by appropriate repetitions of the suit symbol. The figures, which appear to be based on Franco-Flemish models, were drawn in a bold, free, and engaging, if somewhat unrefined, hand. Their exaggerated and sometimes anachronistic costumes suggest a lampoon of extravagant Burgundian court fashions. Although some period card games are named, it is not known how they were played. Almost all card games did, however, involve some form of gambling. The condition of the set indicates that the cards were hardly used, if at all. It is possible that they were conceived as a collector’s curiosity rather than a deck for play.
Servet van linnendamast met een bloempatroon
Object type: napkin
Date: 1825 – 1850
Materials: linen
Techniques: damask, weave

Servet van linnendamast met een bloempatroon. Het veld heeft ruiten waarbinnen gestileerde bloemen en sterren, de randen knoestig hout (Griekse rand). Het servet is gemerkt met bindgat letters: VI 18.
[Botanical Gardens, Calcutta]
Object type: photograph
Date: 1850 – 1859
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: captain r. b. hill
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Subjects: bridges,gardens,landscapes
Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3594
Object type: drawing
Date: 1880 – 1880
Materials: gouache, gum arabic, 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
Drie heksen uit Shakespeares Macbeth
Object type: print
Date: 1846 – 1848
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithography
Location: paris
Subjects: groups of witches, macbeth
Inscriptions: check stamp: Lugt 36b

Prent gebruikt voor: Les Artistes contemporains, dl. 1, 1846-1848.
Portret van Lodewijk XVIII
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1834
Materials: paper
Techniques: stippling
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: paris, lodewijk xviii (koning van frankrijk), knighthood order, historical persons, ruler, sovereign
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Duct flute
Object type: musical instrument
Date: 1800 – 1890
Materials: reed
Techniques: riet
Artist: Anonymous

Rieten fluit met zeven gaten. Horend bij twee fluiten (BK-NM-11430-67-A t/m BK-NM-11430-67-C).
Huis van Sir Robertson - Leiden
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1895 – 1901
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: leiden
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: alms-house (dutch: 'hofje'), gate, entrance
A Stormy Evening
Object type: page
Date: 1895 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: photoaquatint
Location: new york city
Subjects: harbour, landscapes

Prent tegenover pagina 84, achter semi-transparante omslag.
Vier mannen in een studeerkamer
Object type: print
Date: 1735 – 1800
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Artist: giovanni cattini
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1725 – 1800
Subjects: study; 'studiolo'; library, book
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Twee zittende en twee staande mannen in een studeerkamer. Een man laat een stapel boeken op de grond vallen.
Untitled (Stieglitz's mother Hedwig with grandchildren on Oaklawn steps)
Object type: photograph
Date: 1916 – 1916
Location: united states
Artist: alfred stieglitz
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1864 – 1946
Portret van Balduinus Cats
Object type: print
Date: 1726 – 1726
Materials: chalk, paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: françois van bleyswijck
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1671 – 1746
Subjects: historical persons

Prent mogelijk uit: Mieris, Frans van. Kerkelijke Historie en Outheden der Zeven Vereenigde Provincien. Leiden: Dirk Haak, Samuel Luchtmans & Johannes Arnoldus Langerak, 1726.
Rebab
Object type: rebab
Date: 1867 – 1900
Materials: metal, parchment, wood
Culture: algerian or moroccan
Location: algeria

The term rebab refers to chordophones, particularly lutes and lyres, found in Islamic and Islamic-influenced lands. In North Africa, where this example is from, the rebab is most often a boat-shaped, two-string fiddle without frets. It is held across the player's body, with the pegbox against the left shoulder and the tailpiece on the right knee, and is played with a bow. The rebab is never played alone, and is used only to accompany singing. This instrument has been decorated with a delicate ivory inlay, in patterns reminiscent of other decorative objects of the same period from Algeria. The design on the back is reminiscent of a dolphine, symbol of good luck.
Brief aan anoniem
Object type: letter
Date: 1868 – 1868
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: hendrik d. jzn sluyter
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1839 – 1931
Subjects: the hague, painter, draughtsman, jozef israëls, leiden, albertus willem sijthoff, the graphic arts, painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting)
Conoid seal
Object type: stamp seal
Date: 700 – 601
Materials: quartz
Culture: stamp seal
Location: mesopotamia
Horatio Nelson verslaat de Fransen bij Kaap Sint-Vincent
Object type: print
Date: 1711 – 1798
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: london
Subjects: horatio nelson (hertog van bronte), historical persons, hand-to-hand fighting (~ battle), anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait, battle of cape st. vincent
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Met Engels onderschrift verdeeld in drie blokken.
Portrait of L. J. Marquis de Mont-Calm
Object type: print
Date: 1781 – 1781
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: jacques barbié
Artist role: etcher
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1735 – 1779
Subjects: men,portraits
Block
Object type: block
Date: 1130 – 1140
Materials: marble
Culture: catalan
Subjects: palmettes
Oval bowl with grapevine scrolls inhabited by birds and animals
Object type: bowl
Date: 501 – 700
Materials: mercury, silver
Techniques: gilding
Culture: sasanian
Location: iran
Subjects: animals,birds,grapes,men

This oval bowl, made from a single piece of hammered silver, is an example of one of the new vessel forms popular during the second half of the Sasanian period (A.D. 224-651): the shape is typical for wine drinking and most likely derives from Chinese prototypes. The background of the bowl’s exterior was carved out and then gilded, leaving the silver decoration in high relief. Tendrils of vine scrolls, one of the most popular motifs in Sasanian art, are arranged symmetrically along with grape clusters, lotus palmettes, birds and animals. The bearded dancing figure in the center most likely represents Silenos, leader of the satyrs, who along with the grapes and vines, attests to the continuing popularity of imagery associated with the Greek god Dionysos. The cup’s interior features a bird (probably a cock) holding a leaf in its beak, surrounded by bosses created by punching from the exterior surface.
Proef met bloem op grijze achtergrond
Object type: print
Date: 1736 – 1798
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, roulette
Location: amsterdam
Artist: cornelis ploos van amstel
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1726 – 1798
Subjects: flowers
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Keuls aard van Spa waterkannen in de Pars doorgedrukt./ in een doekjen gestoven op de schoone plaat, een papier erover en stuk loot op 't papier’, collector's mark: ‘RIJKS / MUSM’
Minnie Palmer (portrait of bust), from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 1) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Object type: photograph
Date: 1887 – 1887
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the "Actresses and Celebrities" series (N60), issued in 1887 to promote Little Beauties Cigarettes distributed by Allen & Ginter. There are two types of cards in the set. Type 1 cards have the brand name printed on front and Type 2 cards do not.
Slapende jongen met hoed
Object type: print
Date: 1798 – 1837
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: child, sleeping; unconsciousness
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Descending Geese at Yoshida Bridge [English Couple] (Yoshidabashi no rakugan [Igirisujin])
Object type: print
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: utagawa yoshitora
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1845 – 1880
Subjects: men,women,horses,mountains
Libanotis / Herb francumsence
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1617 – 1617
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: arnhem
Subjects: flowers

Prent uit: Passe, Crispijn van de (II). Hortus floridus in quo rariorum & minus vulgarium florum icones ad vivam veramque formam. Arnhem: Johannes Janssonius, 1617.
Sleutel
Object type: key
Date: 1800 – 1900
Materials: iron

Sleutel met cirkelvormig oog waarin zich vijf kruisgewijs geplaatste ringetjes bevinden..
Views of Italy, Switzerland and Savoy
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1850 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: courmayeur
Artist: william england
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1816 – 1896
Subjects: mountain-range, snow peaks, courmayeur
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘By Permission: Dedicated to The Alpine Club’, inscription: ‘N7. Le grand pont et le col du Géant Courmayeur Italie’, number: ‘7’
Schepen in de ingang van het Suezkanaal in Port Said
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1920
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: port said
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.), canal

Onderdeel van reisalbum met foto's van bedrijvigheid en bezienswaardigheden op Sumatra en Java en van de reis naar en van Nederlands-Indië.