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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

358 works

Woodcut of the Crucifixion with three crosses, mounted soldiers, a ladder, and a crowd of mourners below.

Cavalry with the Three Crosses

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved print of Juno with a peacock in a round landscape frame, surrounded by ornate scrollwork and figures.

Juno, Plate 1, from the Judgement of Paris

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1590

Engraved vertical ornament panel with mythological scenes, cherubs, griffins, and stags in framed medallions.

Ornament Panel with Orpheus and the Judgment of Paris

Nicoletto da Modena, 1500

Engraved title page with the Madonna and Child, two bishops, angels, a central inscription and a ducal coat of arms below.

Frontispiece: Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennita`, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Re…

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Engraving of nude Juno with a peacock in an oval landscape, framed by an ornate scrolled border with animals and putti.

Juno, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1690

Engraving of Venus or Galatea raising a billowing cloth, carried by dolphins with cupids around her.

Venus (or Galatea) and Cupids Supported by Dolphins

Agostino Carracci, 1590

Engraving of the Madonna and Child with infant John the Baptist beneath a palm tree, with a landscape behind.

Madonna of the Palm Tree

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1520

Engraving of Saint Anne holding the Christ Child with the Virgin Mary in an interior with a balustrade, tree, and birds.

St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraved oval panel with a crowned nude figure on an eagle, surrounded by grotesque ornaments, scrollwork and squirrels on bl

Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

Etienne Delaune, 1580

Engraving of three nude women embracing in a landscape, one seen from behind, under a cloudy sky.

The Three Graces

Agostino Carracci, 1600

Etching of Perseus flying above a sea monster while figures on a shore raise their arms beside a rocky cliff.

Perseus and Andromeda

Michael Hartwagner, 1740

Engraved Crucifixion scene with Mary, John, and a kneeling woman at the cross, framed by Passion instruments and angels.

The Crucifixion

Flemish Anthonie Wierix, 1590

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

Etching of an angel appearing in light above shepherds with sheep and cattle in a dark wooded landscape.

Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraving of a chained bearded man lying in a dark cell beside several motionless children on a stone floor.

Ugolino and His Sons

Pietro Bettelini, 1810

Etching of Apollo radiating light above a rocky slope with a winged horse, muses with a lyre, and scattered armor and books.

Scene with Apollo

Christian Winck, 1800

Engraving of Diana and nymphs bathing in a grotto pool, with a hunter with antlers at left, captioned in Latin.

Diana and Actaeon

Michael Hartwagner, 1700

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ across her lap, with radiant light, a crown of thorns and a distant cros

Pieta

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1590

Etching of a beggar family receiving coins from a man at a house doorway, with a woman carrying a basket and child.

Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Engraving of Venus and Cupid seated in a forge with blacksmiths working at an anvil and weapons scattered nearby.

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Gérard de Lairesse, 1700

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child and a parrot, with a tree and castle in the background.

Virgin and Child with Parrot

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of three winged angels standing as a bearded man kneels before them beside a ruined building and tree branches.

Abraham and the Three Angels

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Woodcut of seated Christ with crown of thorns and radiant halo, head resting on hand, with Latin title and verse text.

The Small Passion (Title Page)

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Woodcut of mourners carrying a draped body beneath a pointed arch, with dense hatched lines in the background.

Entombment

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of mourners lowering Christ's body into a stone tomb, with a crown of thorns and a bare tree.

The Entombment

Martin Schongauer, 1400

Ink and wash sheet with octagonal scenes of Cupid and Psyche and small studies of winged Cupid figures, labeled in Italian.

Cupid and Psyche: Four Octagons and Eight Drawings of Cupid

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil study of a seated nude woman raising one arm, with handwritten note 'The East, sketch for figure of Law'.

Law, Nude Study for "Contemplative Spirit of the East," Lunette in East Grand Staircase, Minnesota State Capitol, Sai…

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Watercolor and pencil sketch of layered red canyon walls and a sandy trail with scrubby trees under a blue sky.

Looking up the Trail at Bright Angel, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Thomas Moran, 1900