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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Etched fan leaf design with cherubs holding garlands, swans, a classical hunting scene, and a central medallion face.

Fan leaves, first half of the set "Desseins d'Eventails et Ecrans"

Nicolas Pierre Loir

Ink and wash drawing of a stone hall with pointed Gothic arches, vaulted ceilings, and a gallery balustrade.

Stage Design, Interior of Large Hall

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Engraved architectural floor plan of the Hôtel d'Argouge with a central courtyard, staircases, and a scale bar, on a book pag

Print - Jean Marot

Hand-colored print of a trophy of musical instruments tied with purple ribbon, surrounded by sprigs of leaves and red berries

Print - Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate catafalque elevation with paired columns, carved figures, and a winged trumpeter atop.

Elevation of a Catafalque for a General

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Engraved plate of four furniture designs: a fire screen, a side-view armchair, an upholstered armchair, and a pivot screen.

Print - Aubert Henri Joseph Parent

Aubert Henri Joseph Parent

Engraved plate of a rococo fireplace and paneled wall with ornament, below a scene of carpenters working in an interior.

Print - Jacques-François Blondel

Jacques-François Blondel

Engraved ornamental print with a central cartouche, scrolls, floral motifs and pendant drops, signed Hans Collaert.

Print - Flemish Hans Collaert the Elder

Flemish Hans Collaert the Elder

Engraved ornamental plate with two birds on floral garlands above a flower basket suspended between scrolled brackets.

Print - Pierre Ranson

Engraved ornamental design with a central oval medallion of mythological figures, surrounded by garlands, shells, and masks.

Print - Jean Le Pautre

Engraved portrait of a seated elderly man in a dark coat and lace cravat, with mechanical drawings nearby.

Portrait of James Watt

William Nicholson

Black and white circular knot pattern with interlaced rings and a central monogram, framed by leaf motifs and scrolls at the

The Sixth Knot, from Dürer's Six Knots

Albrecht Dürer

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ Child, a kneeling king, attendants, and a procession in the

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"

Israhel van Meckenem

Engraved bust portrait of a bespectacled man with curly hair, wearing a dark jacket and frilled cravat.

Portrait of James Hogg

William Nicholson

Vertical decorative wall design with classical statues, fruit garland on blue, grotesques, putti and scrollwork panels.

Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Ottaviani

Engraving of elegant courtly figures dancing around a pedestal with musicians, with a banquet and a severed head in the backg

Dance of the Daughters of Herodias

Israhel van Meckenem

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair, white cravat and dark coat, turned to the left against hatched background.

Portrait of Robert Burns

William Nicholson

Tall decorative wall panel design with grotesque motifs, cherubs, fruit garlands, medallions, and vine ornament on colored gr

Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs

Giovanni Ottaviani

Pen and ink design drawing of a candelabra with a triangular plan and figures supporting the stem beside a column.

Design for a Candelabra

Carlo Marchionni

Pen and ink design sketch of a chandelier, garlands, and two consoles with pedestal in a neoclassical interior.

Project for Two Consoles

Hand-colored print of an ornamental wall decoration with scrolls, medallions, fruit garlands, and marble-effect panels.

Wall Decoration, Plate from "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Ottaviani

Charcoal drawing of two nude and partly draped putti, one pointing and one lifting a billowing cloth overhead.

Two Putti

Francesco Bartolozzi

Pen and ink sketch of a standing nude male figure and a seated figure gesturing toward a sphere, mounted on tan card.

Sketches of a Nude Figure in Classical Pose and a Seated Figure

Andrea del Sarto

Watercolor arabesque of scrolling acanthus leaves, flowers and grapes with several rodents among the foliage on a pale ground

Foliate Arabesque with Rodents

Henri Sallembier

Graphite study of two muscular nude men wrestling, one lifting the other above rocky ground.

Study for Hercules and Antaeus

Annibale Carracci

Red chalk study on blue-grey paper of a robed figure with raised arm, plus hands holding a lantern and a box.

Portrait of a Cardinal

Giuseppe Passeri

Pen and brown wash drawing of four horizontal friezes showing crowded classical figures in Bacchic processions and sacrifices

Birth of Bacchus; triumph of Bacchus and Arianna; Triumph of Silos

Brown ink and wash drawing of two muscular men wrestling, one lifting the other, with swirling drapery and a Latin inscriptio

Hercules and Antaeus

Annibale Carracci

Red chalk study on blue paper of a kneeling draped figure with several sketched heads and hands around it.

Studies for a Kneeling Monk

Giuseppe Passeri

Ink and wash drawing with two scenes: a robed man addressing a crowd, and a seated woman speaking with a standing man in a cl

Design for Palazzo Conti