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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraving of cranes feeding among pit traps in a marsh while hunters hide beneath a tree at right.

Crane Hunt using Cones, plate 28 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved plate of an ornate classical vase with a serpent handle, mask at the shoulder, and figures in relief.

Vase (Plate 12 of a Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

George du Maurier

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Engraving of the beheading of John the Baptist, with an executioner, a woman with a platter, and a banquet scene with musicia

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Israhel van Meckenem

Pen and ink drawing of two women in long gowns walking past halberd-carrying guards in Tudor-style uniforms at court.

Presented at Court

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Pen drawing of a seated woman holding a cornucopia of fruit and flowers, with a decorative banner reading Abundantia Terrae.

Abundantia Terrae

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Engraved plate of an ornate ewer with a twisted neck, scrolled handle and pedestal foot, numbered 243 on the page.

Vase (Plate 3 of Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

Wood engraving of a horse-drawn sleigh with a man and several fashionable women riding through a snowy winter landscape.

Christmas Belles

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved holiday page with holly border, central Nativity medallion, street scenes, and a crowded children's dance beneath a

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of women in Victorian dresses watching a shopkeeper weigh goods on a scale in a cluttered country store.

A Country Store - Getting Weighed

William James Linton, 1870

Engraved Harper's Weekly page of soldiers crowding a sutler's counter on pay day, with vignettes of letters and money sent ho

Pay-Day in the Army of the Potomac

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of men in turbans clubbing and wrestling crocodiles on a riverbank, with willow trees and a Latin caption below.

Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt, plate 30 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodcut of Christ with a spade and Mary Magdalen kneeling before him in a landscape, from Dürer's Little Passion.

Noli me Tangere (Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved dedication page with a fantastical tree framing German text above a distant landscape with towns.

Dedication page, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of nude Venus seated on a cloud beside Cupid drawing a bow, with a scroll inscription above.

Venus and Cupid

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Grayscale illustration of a dark bird pecking at shells and pebbles among grass and leaves, with a handwritten signature belo

The Handle of a China Cup, the Gem of the Collection

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a bridge under a torii gate, with village rooftops and a temple on a wooded hill.

Yugoyoji Temple (Fugisawa), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, arms raised beside a cross, wearing a crown of thorns, with a skull at his feet.

The Man of Sorrows (with Hands Raised)

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraving of two young women in bathing costumes on a beach, with bathers in the surf and a sailboat offshore.

The Bathers

William H. Redding, 1870

Engraved print of an ornate classical vase with a figure climbing its rim, ship reliefs, and acanthus leaves at the base.

Vase (Plate 7 of a Series)

Engraved title page with ornate border, two lions holding a crown above coats of arms, and allegorical figures beside printed

Title page, "Rerum et Urbis Mstelodamensiu Historia..."

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Etching of a bearded man in a feathered headdress and fur-trimmed robe, holding a sword, on a terrace with urns.

Le Grand Seigneur (The Nobleman), plate 17 from the series Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to M…

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1740

Etched ornamental frieze with acanthus scrolls, a crouching lion, flowers, and a lower row of grotesque masks.

Plate from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Engraved plate of seven rococo panel crestings with scrolling shell-like ornament, titled Divers Couronnemens de Panneaux de

Divers Couronnemens de Panneaux de Menuiserie

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Soldiers lie and kneel with rifles among tall trees in a forest, keeping watch as an outlying picket.

The Army of the Potomac - Our Outlying Picket in the Woods

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Roman archers and horsemen attacking a giant coiled serpent in a forest landscape with palm trees.

The Roman Consul Attilius Regulus Fighting a Giant African Serpent, plate 25 in the Venationes Ferarum series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved rococo cartouche with scrolls, a hunting spear, a hare, a dog head and oak leaves on a rocky base.

Design for Cartouche Evoking the Chase

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved plate of four rococo girandole wall sconce designs with scrollwork, foliage and chinoiserie pagoda motifs.

Gerandoles

Thomas Chippendale, 1750

Engraved floor plan of a first-floor country house layout with labeled salon, bedchambers, cabinets, and central staircase.

Plan du premier Etage, d'une Maison de Campagne

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of ornamental locksmith design with scrolling foliage, a winged bird, fruit clusters and a keyhole motif.

Plate 8, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660