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Ornament & Design

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Engraved classical chimneypiece with winged Victories on the frieze, cornucopia jambs, and an ornate fire grate.

Chimneypiece: Frieze of trophies and winged Victories on the lintel, with cornucopias to either side of the jambs dec…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Engraved plate of neoclassical furniture and candlesticks, including two sedan chairs, a side table and a commode.

Miscellaneous furniture including two sedan chairs, a side table and a commode (Deux ch. à porteurs v. de côté, conso…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Etched design of an Egyptian-style chimneypiece with mummies, caryatids, hieroglyphs and a central flaming fireplace.

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Two mummies in profile on the left and two figures brearing obelisks on the right…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Engraved Egyptian-style chimneypiece by Piranesi, with caryatids, sphinxes, hieroglyphs and stepped pyramid motifs around the

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Groups of three female nudes at the base of each jamb, surmounted by larger kneel…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Etched Egyptian-style chimneypiece with a caryatid, mummy figure, hieroglyphs and sphinx heads above a burning fire.

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Mummy superimposed on a large caryatid above the lintel (Ch. à l'égyptiennne surm…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769

Engraved neoclassical chimneypiece design with Greek key border and circular zodiac fireback showing a chariot.

Chimneypiece: Architrave decorated with a Greek key motif and a circular fireback with figures of the zodiac (Ch. déc…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Engraved sheet of ornamental dagger hilts and scabbards with scrollwork, grotesque masks, and a globe medallion.

Daggars and scabbards, from "Military Ornament"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Grey wash elevation of a neoclassical chimney piece with draped female supports and a frieze of a chariot procession.

Design for a Chimney Piece in the Gallery, now Dining Room, Harewood House, Yorkshire (Elevation)

Robert Adam, ca. 1769

Grey and pink wash design of a neoclassical fireplace with draped female figures, laurel pilasters and winged putti roundels.

Design for a Chimney Piece in the Pompeian Style

Robert Adam, ca. 1775

Engraved print with three ornamental friezes of scrolling acanthus leaves and flowers, with a central oval title cartouche.

Titelprent met drie ornamentele friezen

Paul Androuet Ducerceau, 1660

Engraved title page with French text and a rococo ornamental cartouche decorated with shells and a plant sprig.

Ornament met schelpen

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1755

Etched page with French text and a key of column parts, beside a rococo scrollwork cartouche decorated with flowers and leave

Rocaille ornament

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1755

Engraved plate of a rocaille cartouche with garlands beside a lettered list of Tuscan column and entablature parts.

Rocaille cartouche

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1755

Pencil sketch of a bearded prophet and a bishop above a cluster of angels in clouds, on aged paper.

A Bearded Prophet in Glory Attended by a Bishop, Two Other Male Saints, and Angels (Design for a Section of a Dome)

Giovanni Lanfranco, 1634-35

Watercolor sketch of a woman in a blue shawl and a man in a top hat beside a street lamp, with a faint figure at left.

Design for an illustration to Vanity Fair (recto); Sketch of young woman (verso)

William Makepeace Thackeray, ca. 1847

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate fireplace mantelpiece with caryatids, a central mirror, and a putto statue.

Design for Mantlepiece

Antonio Francisco Baeta, late 19th century

Pen and grey wash design drawing of a fireplace chimneypiece with scroll frieze, acanthus brackets, and dimension notes.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Architectural elevation of a fireplace with swag and rosette decoration set within paneled walls and a dentil cornice.

Design for a Chimneypiece in the Garden Hall, Manresa House, Roehampton, Surrey

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1760

Pen drawing of an ornate bucket-shaped vessel with figural handle, garlands, and reclining river gods among reeds.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Interlaced Figures, on a Body Adorned with Bucrania, Garlands, and T…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Pen and brown ink design for a vessel with scrolled handle, a reclining river god and two putti on its body.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Non-Figural Interlaces, on a Body Adorned with a River God and Two P…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Pen drawing of a bucket-like vessel with strapwork handle, its body decorated with dancing musician figures and garlands.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Strapwork, on a Body Adorned with Dancing and Music-Making Antique-S…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate vessel with a figural handle, garland, and a bearded satyr head.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Two Interlaced Captives, on a Body Adorned with a Scroll, Garland, a…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Vertical black and cream ornamental design with symmetrical scrolls, curls and dotted tendrils.

Ornamenteel motief

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Tan printed sheet with repeating ornament, a central lion coat of arms, boat, wagon and Dutch banner words.

Blad met ornamenten, boot, wagen en wapen van Nederland

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Engraved title page cartouche with Cupid on water, inscribed Clytophon & Leucippe, flanked by foliage and putti.

Cartouche met een Amor drijvend op zijn pijlenkoker

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Drawing of a wall tomb design with a central urn, two cherubs drawing back drapery, and an inscribed tablet on the base.

Design for a Wall Tomb

Avanzino Nucci, 1590-1610

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged and draped allegorical figures above a skull on a tomb.

Allegorical Design for a Tomb

André Lebrun, n.d.

Pen and ink design for a circular platter with woven lattice field, floral border and central cartouche.

Design for a platter

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Engraved ornamental border with scrolls, lion masks, and a helmeted face flanked by laurel branches.

Ornament met een gezicht met muts

Bernard Picart, 1723

Engraved rococo ornament panel with scrolling foliage and a winged-hat face at the centre, signed Picart 1723.

Ornament met een Mercuriusgezicht

Bernard Picart, 1723