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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Watercolor ornament sheet with a triangular panel of two winged lions, a laurel wreath, and a crown with ribbons.

Ornament Design, Triangular Panel with Winged Lions and Two Roman Crowns

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, 1770

Watercolor design of a wood-grained door with an overdoor panel showing a fantastic bird in pink, green and yellow.

Design for Door and Overdoor with Fantastic Bird, probably for the Yellow Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Engraving of three nude putti by an urn with a bird, and a sleeping child beside a tree in a landscape.

Boys Playing with a Bird

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1770

Engraving of the Fountain of the Animals at Versailles with a central water jet, bronze animal groups and cypress trees.

Fountain of the Animals at Versailles

Jean Raymond, 1760

Engraving of a bird hunt with two hunters, a woman on horseback, a large tree, and flying birds before a distant castle.

Bird Hunt

Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1730

Red-toned print of two birds with spread wings among leafy trees, grasses and a fallen branch in a landscape.

Hunting Scene: Birds in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Sepia oval print of a seated woman in white robes with a lion and donkey beside her in a forest.

Una and the Lion, from Spenser's "Faerie Queen"

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1770

Engraving of turbaned hunters with dogs attacking a lion beneath a large flowering palm tree.

Lion Hunt

Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1730

Reddish-brown print of two birds beside a nest with eggs, surrounded by trees, branches and grasses in a landscape.

Two Birds and a Bird’s Nest in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Sepia drawing of a seated shepherd seen from behind, facing a small dog standing on its hind legs in a grassy landscape.

Seated Shepherd Playing with a Dog

Flemish Gilles Demarteau, 1770

Engraved elevation of the east front of the Horse and Foot Guards at Whitehall, with a central clock tower and arcaded wings.

The East Front of the Horse and the Foot Guards at Whitehall

Benjamin Cole, 1740

Etching of a soldier with a horse, a groom with a staff, and a dog on rocky ground by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Soldier with Horse and Groom, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Brown ink and wash drawing of two long-beaked birds among acanthus leaves and seed pods on a curving stem.

Two Birds in Foliage with Seed Pods

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and ink wash drawing of Hercules wrestling and killing the Nemean lion, with an Italian caption below.

Hercules and Nemean Lion

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a grotesque mask, winged griffins, an oval cameo portrait and scrolling ornament.

Design for Cartouche with Cupid, a Horse and Spears from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1790

Engraved page of six rococo vegetable ornament designs around a central title cartouche, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740.

Ornament Design with Two Dead Birds lying on Acanthus Branch, from Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], p…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rococo ornament plate with a crested bird, kneeling figures, scrollwork cartouches and an umbrella-holding figure.

Ornament Design with Figures and Birds

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etching of a bearded magus and a youth beside a horse, with a groom and an owl on a branch above.

Magus and Youth, with a Horse and Groom, plate 19 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraved rococo ornament with scrolls, a seated plumed figure, birds and flowers, by Antoine Aveline, 1730.

Ornament Design with Birds and a Figure

Antoine Aveline, 1730

Engraved rococo cartouche design with crown, putti, lions and winged griffins, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger.

Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1790