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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Hand-colored print of two hunters resting under a fruit-laden tree with dogs, game birds, and a servant preparing food.

Repast of the Hunters

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Engraved design plate of a rococo ewer with scrolling acanthus ornament, curved handle and flared spout, numbered 18.

Buirre pour les Évèque

Pierre Germain, 1710

Woodblock print of curling blue waves, a pine-covered cliff, Mount Fuji in the distance and a sailboat on the bay.

Great Wave at Satta Beach, Suruga, from the series The Thirty-Six Views of Fuji (Fuji Sanjuroku Kei)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1850

Etching of a classical allegory with a staff-bearing man, an urn, seated figures, cherubs, and scattered books.

Allegory of Transience

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650

Engraved dedication page with rococo frame, workshop scene of craftsmen at top, French text block, and grotto vignette below.

Dedication Page

Jean Lamour, 1760

Etching of a dim architectural interior with timber ceiling, stone arch, staircase, and barred gate by Giovanni Paolo Gaspari

Architectural Interior

Giovanni Paolo Gaspari, 1700

Engraved plate of rococo frame borders with scrollwork, shells, a crown and a stag head design.

Developement de bordures pour une chasse du Roy., Deux détails..., 6th Plate [Two details for the frame of a Hunting…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a soldier pointing to a ruined city through a window while a seated bearded man in a robe gestures toward it.

Caius Marius in Prison

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560

Engraved rococo design for a pier glass with ornate carved paneling, two chairs, and a console table below.

Plate 2, Projet d'un Trumeau de glace pour un grand cabinet fait pour le Portugal (Project for a Pier Glass for a Lar…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Green-grey chiaroscuro print of a nude man seen from behind, reclining by a stream under large trees.

Nude Man Seen from Behind (Narcissus?)

called Parmigianino Francesco Mazzola, 1530

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a shell-topped niche holding an armored nude figure, flanked by scrollwork, garlands a

Plate 22, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraved rococo title page with a cartouche, winged trumpeter, crowned eagle shield, lion, and obelisk in a landscape.

Design for Cartouche

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved page of rococo ornamental borders with a crowned cartouche bearing fleur-de-lis and scrolling frame sections.

Development de bordures du Portrait du Roy, Cartouche aux armes du roi..., 4th plate, pl. 38 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurel…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Etched portrait of an elderly man in a skullcap and dark robe holding a quill pen and paper before a drape.

Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol, Writing-Master (The "Large Coppenol")

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1620

Engraving of a braided horse labeled Saxo walking on a hill, with a walled town and river boats behind it.

A Saxon Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Hand-colored engraved monogram letter made of flower garlands and ribbons, topped by a crown of pearls and flowers.

Decorative Monogram Design

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Hand-coloured chinoiserie garden plate with pavilions, arched bridges, parasols, hanging bells and birds among flowering shru

Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des Dessinateurs et des peintres, no.2

Anne Allen, 1790

Etching of three women's heads in caps, one asleep with closed eyes at lower center, by Rembrandt.

Three Heads of Women, One Asleep

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraved ornamental plate with satyrs and winged figures framing a draped cloth above a blank central panel.

Plate, from Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna (Emblems worth knowing noble and common men)

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1590

Woodblock print of a teahouse with travelers and porters carrying a green palanquin along a road under pine trees.

Kusatsu, A Station Famous for its Rice Cakes, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Black and white illustration of a man playing violin beside a fireplace and punch bowl, with seated onlookers in a room.

Fiddler at a Punch Party

Benjamin West Clinedinst, 1890

Japanese woodblock print of a bay with a rocky headland, small boats, pine trees and a distant snow-capped mountain.

Maisaka, Imaki Point, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of hunters in feathered headgear catching geese by a pond, with decoy gourds on water and a distant town.

Catching geese

Flemish Cornelis Galle I, 1600

Woodcut of Christ in Limbo with nude figures, a fleeing demon, a banner-bearing Christ, and an old man in the foreground.

Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Symmetrical grotesque ornament print with a central mask, scrolls, feathers, pendants, and a small elephant at the top.

Plate 14, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of foxes attacking a bull and goat in a landscape, with a shepherd and sheep, Latin verses below.

Bulls and goats attacked by foxes

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraving of holidaymakers on a rocky seashore with children in tide pools, women with parasols, and sailboats offshore.

August in the Country - The Sea-Shore

Winslow Homer, 1850

Etching of a woman in a headwrap leaning over an open book, absorbed in reading, with fine crosshatched lines.

Woman Reading

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraved ornamental design with an arch, grotesque masks, garlands, seated figure, lions and figural panels below.

Design for Grotesque Ornament

the elder Jean Berain, 1690

Engraving of soldiers charging across a field toward smoke, with a mounted officer raising a sabre on the right.

Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit Near Yorktown

Winslow Homer, 1860