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Ornament & Design

5,940 works

Side-elevation design drawing of a blue landaulet carriage with red spoked wheels and a white folding top.

Design for Landaulet, no. 764

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Side-view design drawing of a green and black landaulet carriage with spoked wheels and dashed outlines of its folding top.

Design for Landaulet (unnumbered)

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Side-elevation design drawing of a green and black horse-drawn landaulet carriage with spoked wheels and dashed folding-top o

Design for Double Front Landaulet (unnumbered)

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Pen and wash design drawing of a painted wall with Neptune and Amphitrite on a sea chariot between two niche statues and colu

Neptune and Amphitrite Flanked by Jupiter and Juno: Design for Painted Hall or Garden Bench

James Thornhill, n.d.

Brown ink and wash design drawing of a funerary monument with allegorical figures, a portrait medallion, flags, and an inscri

Design for an Unexecuted Funerary Monument for the First Duke of Marlborough

John Michael Rysbrack, n.d.

Pen and wash design for stage scenery with classical columns, a globe held by a kneeling atlas figure, and a chariot with hor

Design for Stage Scenery (Hampton Court) with Mythological Figures

James Thornhill, 1695/1734

Pen and ink side elevation drawing of a horse-drawn landaulet carriage with bow front and large wheels, touched with red wash

Design for Bow Front Landaulet (unnumbered)

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Hand-colored side-elevation design of a green horse-drawn carriage with spoked wheels and dashed folding-top outline.

Design for Double Landaulet (unnumbered)

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Etched ornamental design with scrolling foliage, cartouches, birds, and grotesque motifs arranged in framed panels.

Ornamental Grottesque Design

Pen and brown wash sheet with four sketched sculptural groups of seated allegorical warriors, a winged figure and putti.

Unexecuted Designs for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough

John Michael Rysbrack, c. 1733

Pen and brown ink sketch with wash of a seated female allegorical figure in classical drapery holding a book.

Wisdom: Unexecuted Design for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough

John Michael Rysbrack, c. 1733

Pen and ink side elevation of a horse-drawn coach design, no. 231, with spoked wheels and a closed body.

Design for Coach, no. 231

Brewster & Co., ca.1860

Pencil and wash design drawing of a horse-drawn barouche carriage in side view, labeled No. 599.

Design for Vis-à-vis/ Barouche, no. 599

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Brown ink drawing of an oval frame with putti, scrollwork, and an allegorical figure holding scales and a sword.

Design for Frontispiece to the Seven Virtues

called Giovanni Stradano Joannes Stradanus, 1598

Watercolor design drawing of a blue and black horse-drawn vis-à-vis carriage shown in side elevation with spoked wheels.

Design for Vis-à-vis, no. 814

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Brown ink drawing of an armored soldier beside a heraldic shield with two pears and stars, framed by columns and soldiers wit

Design for Swiss Heraldic Arms

After Hans Holbein, the younger, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a stone tomb with cherubs and lions, flanked by kneeling family members before heraldic shields.

Design for Epitaph: Family Members Kneeling Before Tomb

Attributed to Hans Holbein, the younger, n.d.

Pen and watercolor design drawing in side view of a horse-drawn carriage labeled no. 452.

Design for Rockaway, no. 452

Brewster & Co., c. 1860

Watercolor design of a jewelled hummingbird perched on a branch with red and green accents and long tail plumes.

Design for a Jewel in the Shape of a Hummingbird

Henri Cameré, 1864

Engraved ornamental cartouche with a chariot abduction scene, herm figures, putti and a landscape vignette below.

Cartouche met een voorstelling van de roof van Proserpina

Pieter van der Heyden, 1566

Etched print of an ornamental vase with handles, a scrolled cartouche, and an acanthus-decorated pedestal capital.

Vaas, cartouche en kapiteel

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1644

Side-view design drawing of a black four-seat phaeton carriage with green-accented spoked wheels on a pale background.

Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 645

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Engraving of a smith at an anvil beneath Jupiter on clouds, framed by a border of arms, armour and cannon.

Allegorie op het element vuur, in een cartouche

Sébastien Leclerc, 1670

Engraving of Neptune in a sea chariot among sea creatures and shells, with a ship and coast, framed by an ornate border.

Allegorie op het element water, in een cartouche

Sébastien Leclerc, 1670

Etched ornamental cartouche with an empty circular center, garlands, ribbon bow, palette and brushes.

Ornamentele omlijsting

Gerard van Nijmegen, 1745

Engraved horizontal panel of curling leaf ornament with a standing putto at the right edge against a crosshatched ground.

A Double Scroll of Leaf Ornament with a Putto Standing at the Right

Heinrich Aldegrever, c. 1532

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental helmet design with scrolling strapwork, mythological figures and a central classical me

Design for a Burgonet Helmet

Jean Cousin the Elder, c. 1545

Grotesque Head of an Old Woman

Leonardo da Vinci, 1489/1490

Engraved cartouche with a nude woman beside a rock facing a sea monster, framed by scrolling ornament and winged horses.

Cartouche: Perseus bevrijdt Andromeda

Abraham de Bruyn, 1584

Pen and ink drawing of rococo ornamental scrollwork, cartouches, columns and architectural interior details.

Studies of Ornament and Architecture

Claude Gillot, c. 1710