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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraving of two lions caught in a net as shielded hunters with torches approach through a palm landscape.

Lion trap

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraving of two geometric polyhedra on pedestals: a rhombic triacontrahedron at left and a spiky stellated icosahedron at ri

Plate O, F.IIII, Rhombentrikontaeder und Ikosaeder (Rhombic Triacontrahedron and Icosahedron), Perspectiva Corporum R…

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Woodcut of Christ with a halo and staff appearing to a seated woman in a headscarf beside a curtained bed.

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etched design of an ornate classical vase with reclining figures, satyr handles and a garden landscape behind it.

Design for a Vase

Flemish Jacques Damery, 1650

Hand-colored paper doll costume of a woman in a pink and blue gown with lace headdress holding sheet music.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Singer in Concert-Toilette

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Etched ornamental plate with a central female figure in scrollwork, flanked by putti, candle sconces and hanging garlands.

Plate 46, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Black-and-white woodcut of four horsemen riding over fallen figures beneath an angel in the clouds.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved octagonal portrait of Cardinal Mazarin in clerical dress with a skullcap and tasseled collar cord.

Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin

Jean Morin, 1650

Engraving of two hunters with a gun and an ox near a stream, with deer and cattle in a wooded landscape.

Deer hunt

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraving of soldiers crowding around an open crate of Christmas boxes in a camp with white tents and hanging laundry.

Christmas Boxes in Camp - Christmas, 1861

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of the Virgin with a nude infant, a chained monkey at her feet, a bird on the child's hand, and a river landscape w

The Virgin with the Monkey

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a rifle, with a handwritten verse beside him.

Trial proof: Portrait of Henry van Dyck

Walter Appleton Clark, 1890

Etching of a large elephant in light facing robed, bearded men holding a scroll in shadow at left.

Otras Leyes por El Pueblo (Other Laws for the People)

Francisco Goya, 1810

Etched grotesque ornament plate with two elephant heads, scrolling acanthus, three putti under a canopy, and sprigs of foliag

Plate 26, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Lithograph of the Pennsylvania Senate Chamber in 1850 with curved desks and a seating plan of senators below.

Senate Chamber, Harrisbug, Pennsylvannia

August Kollner, 1850

Engraved portrait of a scholar in a fur hat writing at a desk beside books and a flower vase.

Erasmus

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Etching of a harbor with moored boats, wooden pilings, and waterfront buildings reflected in calm water.

Harbor: Cos Cob, Connecticut

Childe Hassam, 1910

Engraving of fishermen in rowing boats hauling large tuna near a harbor town with sailing ships, with Latin verses below.

Tuna fishing

Flemish Karel van Mallery, 1590

Engraving of figures fishing with pelicans on a river bank, with ducks, willows, huts and Latin verse below.

Indians Catching Fish with the Help of Pelicans

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Etched design plate of an ornate Baroque altar with candles, chandeliers, kneeling angels and scrollwork.

Design for an Altar, plate 2 of "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornament..."

Filippo Passarini, 1690

Woodblock print of two women in patterned kimono beside a white crane and pine branches on a yellow background.

Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych)

d. Kininaga, 1810

Woodcut of the Entombment: men lower Christ's body while mourning women stand nearby beside a rocky tomb and a crown of thorn

The Entombment, from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Pen and ink illustration of a man in checked suit watching two women embrace in an ornate interior with a gilt mirror.

I Stood by Speechless in My Bewilderment

Howard Chandler Christy, 1900

Monochrome illustration of an elderly bearded man seated on a bench by a log cabin doorway, with ivy growing up the wall.

Uncle Remus at the Door of His Cabin

Arthur Burdett Frost, 1900

Watercolor design for a decorative panel with symmetrical acanthus scrolls and foliage inside a scrolled border.

Design for a Panel

Cooper Union Art School, 1900

Woodblock print of a boatman poling a flat boat on a river, with travelers crossing a sandbar and misty hills behind.

Mitsuke, Tenryu-gawa River, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of monkeys imitating kneeling hunters who wash their eyes in basins beneath trees, with a sunburst sky.

Apes imitating hunters

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1590

Etching of two women and a seated man on a ship gallery with scrolled iron railing, overlooking a harbor with masts.

The Gallery of H.M.S. Calcutta (Souvenir of a Ball on Shipboard)

James Joseph Tissot, 1870

Woodcut of a long-haired saint in prayer, surrounded by winged cherubs, rising above a rocky landscape with mountains and wat

Elevation of Saint Mary Magdalen

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved grotesque panel with two dolphins flanking a central column, scrolling foliage and a human mask at top.

Grotesque Panel with Dolphins

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1520