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Ornament & Design

5,938 works

Pen and ink design sheet for a sepulchral monument with an urn, scrolled cartouche, portrait medallion and two seated figures

Design for a sepulchral monument (recto); Design for a monument (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Ink and red chalk design for a tomb monument with a winged figure on top and seated and reclining figures at its sides.

Design for a sepulchral monument (recto); Fragment of a letter and notes (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a monument design: a bull's head between two winged putti holding drapery, above a lion mask.

Design for a monument (recto); Architectural sketches (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and brown ink design for a sepulchral monument with two kneeling figures and cherubs above a scrolled base.

Design for a sepulchral monument with Mary Magdalen and Saint Jerome (recto); Sketch (counterproof) and writing exerc…

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a draped sepulchral monument with a cross finial, a sarcophagus, and a seated figure beside it.

Design for a sepulchral monument in the form of a pulpit (recto); Fragment of a text (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a classical altar design with columns, curved pediment, draped curtain, and a winged putto.

Design for an altar

Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a sepulchral monument with a reclining figure, oval portrait bust, urn, and draped base.

Design for a sepulchral monument with a portrait bust

Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen, 1673

Pen and wash drawing of a reliquary design with two cherubs holding palm fronds above a cartouche and scrolled pedestal.

Design for a reliquary

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Line print of classical figures including a winged Eros and draped women, beside a Dramatis Personae list in red borders.

Helena wordt gepresenteerd aan Paris en een cartouche met figuur bij een gordijn

Walter Crane, 1887

Design sheet with three rows of ornamental panels in gilt frames, painted medallions, floral motifs and red grounds, in water

Designs for panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a left-half architectural design with a garlanded column, scrolled capital and figure cartouche

Left Half Design for an Architectural Project

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Pen and watercolor design for a Baroque ceiling with putti, flower garlands, scrolled stucco and a round oculus.

Design for a Ceiling

Faustino Trebbi

Pen and watercolor design of a classical interior wall with arch, Corinthian columns, balcony balustrade and a flower urn.

Design for Part of a Wall Elevation with a Balcony flanking an Arch

Faustino Trebbi

Pen and blue wash drawing of an ornate ewer with dragon handles, flared spout and footed base on paper.

Design for a Glass (?) Ewer

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1640-60

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate candlestick with a burning candle, a coiled snake, and a spiral column.

Design for a Candlestick

Giulio Romano, ca. 1530-46

Engraved ornamental design with an oval cartouche of Latin text flanked by seated figures, lion masks and foliage.

Ovale cartouche met tekst van Solon

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1558

Engraved symmetrical ornamental cartouche with satyrs, musicians, foliage and a central Latin inscription panel.

Cartouche met tekst van Bias tussen twee saters in rolwerk

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1558

Engraved ornamental cartouche with central Latin inscription, flanked by classical figures, foliage, birds and urns.

Cartouche met tekst van Tales

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1558

Engraved print of ornate ceiling cornice with atlas figures, scrolling foliage and a central medallion of two seated figures.

Fragment van plafondlijsten met figuren en ornamenten in de Venuskamer van het paleis van de groothertog van Toscane…

Barend de Bailliu, 1651

Watercolor design of an ornate theater curtain with red drapery, green damask, gold tassels, and a procession frieze.

Design for a Theater Curtain

Aimé Chenavard, 1818-38

Hand-colored stage design of an Egyptian-style temple with columns and lion figures inside a rocky cave with hanging vines.

Design for the Opera: The Magic Flute, Act I, Scene I

Karl Friedrich Thiele, 1847-49

Brown ink and wash drawing of cavalry in battle, with rearing horses, raised swords, and fallen soldiers under a hazy sky.

A Battle Scene

Ferdinand Kobell, 1783

Album page with two putti in roundels above a symmetrical ornamental engraving with sphinxes and vases.

Albumblad met twee prenten met putti in cirkels en ornament

Lucas van Leyden, 1500

Architectural drawing with elevations, sections and floor plan of a church, in ink and wash, with handwritten inscriptions.

Design for the Parish Church of Merkershausen

Balthasar Neumann, 1738

Architectural elevation and floor plan of a domed cruciform capitol with columns, a rotunda, House and Senate chambers, and a

First Premium Design for the Capitol of Ohio at Columbus by Walter of Cincinnati

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1839

Architectural elevation and floor plan of a domed, colonnaded capitol building with colored legislative chambers, drawn in in

The Second Premium Design for the Capitol of Ohio, Columbus

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1839

Engraved print of three vertical floral ornament strips with spiraling ribbons, flowers, and acanthus scrolls on a page.

Drie florale ornamenten

Paul Androuet Ducerceau, 1650

Etched page of three vertical ornamental panels with acanthus scrolls, seated satyrs playing instruments, and rosettes.

Ornamenten met acanthusranken en saters

Paul Androuet Ducerceau, 1650

Engraved print of three ornamental panels with acanthus scrolls, a grotesque mask, draped women and an urn.

Drie ornamenten met acanthusranken en maskers

Paul Androuet Ducerceau, 1670

Etched ornament cartouche with an empty central medallion, two putti at the top corners and scrolling foliage below.

Ornament cartouche met putti

Frans Van Kuyck, 1862