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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraving of horsemen lassoing and spearing wild bulls in an open field, with trees and Latin verses below.

Trapping wild bulls

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraving of crowds skating on an icy rink before city buildings, with top-hatted men, bonneted women and a child on a sled.

Skating at Boston

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of a rabbit hunt with rabbits fleeing across hills, dogs in pursuit, and mounted hunters beside a tree.

Rabbit hunt

Theodoor Galle, 1600

Etching of a seated man reading a large book beside a table with a skull, under a triptych with a crucifixion scene.

Portrait of Abraham Francen

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Lithograph of a large steel works interior with an overhead crane, stacked pig iron, and workers among railway wagons.

The Great Tower. Pig-Iron

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Hand-colored print of an actor as Richard III reclining in a jeweled robe with a gold sword, a red tent and battle behind.

Edmund Kean as Richard III

A. Park, London, England, 1830

Print of a Scottish man in a kilt walking a cobbled street past women at a well and men near a hanging sign and archway.

Flemish Street Scene with a Scottish Man

Will Hicock Low, 1910

Engraving of a dinner party in a parlor, figures raising wine glasses in a toast beside a bottle, fruit plate, and wall portr

Our Next President

Winslow Homer, 1860

Woodblock print of grazing horses and handlers in a green field beside a blue sea, with a large pine tree at center.

Chiryu, The Horse Fair, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830

Print of a woman with closed eyes pouring steaming coffee into a cup and saucer, inside an ornate oval gold frame.

The Woman Taking Coffee

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1770

Book page with six engraved rococo vegetable ornament designs around a central title cartouche for Meissonnier's Livre de Leg

Title page for Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 13 in Ouvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Hand-colored tinsel picture of a uniformed man reading on a green sofa with a sleeping child in a book-lined study.

"Tinsel Picture": Napoleon in His Study

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1850

Engraved plate of an ornate ewer with an animal handle, lion masks, and garlands, labeled Romae ab antiquo repertum.

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)

Engraving of a crowned child on a tricycle beside a winged figure, while Father Time pushes a 1868 wheelbarrow past a night c

The New Year - 1869

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved pendant design with a central niche showing a female figure and two children labeled Charitas, surrounded by scrollw

Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, 1610

Engraved plate with two rococo vase designs with scrolling foliage, a small cartouche between them, and number 143.

Two Designs for Vase-Like Ornaments

Franz Xaver Habermann, 1740

Ink and wash title page with ornamental frame, flower garland, owl coat of arms, and lettering for Delafosse's 5th collection

Title Page

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

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

Engraving of a shepherd boy resting beside his crook, with sheep, a leaning tree and distant buildings in a green landscape.

A Shepherd Boy

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Hand-colored print of stylized fantastic flowers in grey, pink, blue and orange on a branching stem with feathery foliage.

Fantastic flower motif from "Nouvelle Suitte de fleurs iéales"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1750

Engraved plate of a reclining river god with reeds and landscape in an oval, framed by an ornate scrolled border.

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

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1690

Engraved ornamental plate with a central oval of a winged nude figure, surrounded by grotesque scrolls, masks, lions and sphi

Plate 28, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of fighting horses rearing in a hilly landscape with a wolf at lower left and trees at upper right.

Fighting Horses, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Hand-colored engraving of two bearded men talking beneath a flowering tree, with armed attendants and a horseman nearby.

Laban reproves Jacob for leaving secretely

the Younger Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1720

Engraved design drawing of an ornate standing cup with a tall domed cover, decorated with masks, cherubs and scrollwork.

Standing Cup with Cover, from "Novum opus cratero graphicum..."

Matthias Zündt, 1550

Engraved vertical ornament with a flaming candelabrum, winged birds, medallions, mermaids and scrollwork on a pale sheet.

Ornamental Candelabrum

Daniel Hopfer, 1520

Engraved ornamental frieze with classical figures, scrollwork, and a central cartouche reading Theodor de Bry.

Plate 1, from a set of four frieze designs

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1590

Etching of a seated woman holding a child, a cat on a bench, and a man at a sunlit window in an interior.

The Virgin and Child with the Cat and Joseph at the Window

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

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