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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Etching of a winged dragon bearing the Virgin and Child on its back, with a banner above and flames from its mouth.

Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno…

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Engraved rococo fountain design with scrolling trelliswork arches, figures, a lion, and a helmet among trees and rays of ligh

Design for Fountain with Trelliswork Arches

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of an ornate rococo altar cross with radiating rays, cherubs and a seated figure on a scrolled pedestal.

Croix d'Autel (Cross of the Altar), plate 79, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meisson…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1690

Engraving of three sailing ships tossed among fantastical sea monsters on rough waves under a dark sky.

Three ships surrounded by monsters

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Hand-colored engraving of an allegorical America: a feathered woman with a bow beside a crocodile, parrot, monkey and tropica

America

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Pope Pius VI (1775-1799)

Francesco Piranesi, 1780

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

The Three Graces

Agostino Carracci, 1600

Proofs for Four Plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter E

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1680

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 design plate of a rococo water ewer with a scrolling handle, floral garland, and pedestal base.

Pot à l'eau

Pierre Germain, 1740

Sepia etching of a seated woman and a winged youth writing on a classical monument beside architectural fragments.

Etching with aquatint: Architecture

Felice Giani, 1790

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a leaping deer, hounds, arched bridge, waterfall, ostrich and fruit.

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Hand-colored engraving of armored warriors in red cloaks beneath a flowering tree, with spears, a striped standard and a hors

The Vow of Jephthah

the Younger Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1720

Etching of a Pan statue on a pedestal in woods, with figures making offerings and playing pipes beside an urn.

The Festival of Pan

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Engraving of the Nativity: kneeling Virgin beside infant Christ in a manger, shepherds with a lamb at left, angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Flemish Nicolaus van Aelst, 1600

Two engraved plates of putti: one playing flute and lyre on a pedestal, the other helmeted beside a pelt and winged cherub.

Suitte des Enfants

Michael Hartwagner, 1770

Hand-coloured ornamental bouquet of pink flowers, green leaves, orange and blue feathers and blue berries on a pale ground.

Ornamental Design with Small Red Flowers and Berries, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage d…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved ceiling design with a radiant central figure, clouds, and putti within ornamental architectural framing.

Projet d'un Plafond de Peinture pour la Chapelle de la Vierge de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for Painted Ceiling for…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a seated painter sketching a nude woman at an easel while a helmeted figure looks on, with Latin verse below.

Alexander the Great Offering Campaspe to Apelles

Johann Martin Weis

Engraved rococo ornament design with scrolling cartouche, seated robed figure, kneeling attendant, urn, and grotesque masks.

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etching of two seated children beneath a gnarled tree with a large hanging fruit and leafy branches.

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Hand-colored engraved plate of ferns, flowers and a banner with French title text, numbered 3 at bottom.

Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres, no. 3

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

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 panelling design for a cabinet with a central mirror over a settee, flanked by wall consoles, a candelabra an

Decoration de Lambris pour un Cabinet (Decoration for Panelling for an Office)

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1690

Engraving of men catching snakes with forked sticks in a marsh, with dogs, frogs, trees and ruins in the background.

Hunting snakes

Flemish Cornelis Galle I, 1600

Engraved cartouche showing a seated woman with an incense burner beside a camel, with palm trees and a building in the backgr

L'Asie

Marie Michelle Blondel, 1730

Engraving of a rearing horse with a bridle, labeled GALLICVS, with a city and hills in the background.

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

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Etched rococo cartouche design with a reclining cherub, lyre, scrolls, and architectural ruins at its base.

Design for a Cartouche Representing Architecture

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved elevation of a riding academy side wall with arched windows, draped curtains, garlands, and chandeliers.

Side Wall Elevation of the Riding Academy, Vienna

Francesco Zucchi, 1740

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