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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Etched fan leaf design with a mermaid playing a lyre in a central oval, flanked by cherubs, dolphins and scrollwork.

Fan leaves, Third and fourth plates of the set, "Divers Desseins de grands Eventails, Encrans, et autres Ornamens, in…

Alexis Loir, 1670

Nocturnal harbor scene in brown tones with clouds above, rows of lights on shore and water, and a lighthouse at center.

The Bay, New York

Joseph Pennell, 1920

Engraving of Hercules carrying two classical columns through a courtyard with arcades and a rotunda, a city behind.

Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraved ornamental plate with an empty oval frame flanked by cornucopias, acanthus scrolls, and garland friezes.

Frieze with Ovoidal Frame

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Black and white plate of neoclassical ornamental friezes and panels with scrolls, a griffin, garlands and trophies.

Friezes, Panels and Ornam

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Engraving of a woman with a sword beside a fallen armored man, with an ornate fountain and Cupid in the background.

Pyramus and Thisbe

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraving of a couple on a tricycle and other cyclists on a riverside road, with a steamboat on the river.

Wheeling on Riverside Drive

Thure de Thulstrup, 1880

Engraving of two couples in 16th-century dress on grass, one man holding a sword beside a woman, with labels above.

May and June

Sebald Beham, 1540

Etched ornamental design with an oval scene of figures at a well above an arch flanked by putti and garlands.

Fan leaves, Tenth and eleventh plates of the set, "Divers Desseins de grands Eventails, Encrans, et autres Ornamens,…

Alexis Loir, 1740

Etching of soldiers and robed figures around an altar with a skull and bone, beside a rocky outcrop with an inscription.

Soldiers, Magus, and Other Figures Observing a Skull and a Tibia on an Altar, plate 7 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of St. Jerome kneeling in a rocky landscape beside a resting lion, with cliffs, pines and a chapel.

St. Jerome in Penitence

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved title page with winged putti, fruit garlands, a coat of arms, and the title La Sacra Genesi figurata.

"La Sacra Genesi figurata

Francesco Villamena, 1620

Etching of a haloed figure preaching with raised hands to a crowd in an arched interior, with figures seated and kneeling bel

Christ Preaching ('La Petit Tombe')

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor holding a long staff, wearing a black robe over a green and cream patterned costume.

Omezo Ichikawa in the role of Kajiwara Genta

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1810

Engraved interior with a standing man gesturing to three seated women, a parrot on a screen and a dog on the floor.

La Critique de L’École des femmes (Critique of The School for Wives), Oeuvres de Molière (Works of Molière), Vol. II

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet, 1770

Engraving of Hercules on a fiery pyre with a nude figure beside him, a distant walled town and a river on the right.

The Death of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of two peasant couples: dancing figures on the left and a drunken man being supported on the right, labeled Novembe

November and December

Sebald Beham, 1540

Pen etching of a satyr and bacchante in ivy wreaths seated on a lion skin, with a horned female faun and a tent behind them.

Copy of Bacchante, Satyr, and Female Faun, from the series Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of two robed apostles speaking to a seated beggar beside a column, with onlookers in period dress behind them.

S. Peter and S. John Healing the Lame at the Gate of the Temple

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of Hercules struck by a woman with a club, with nude figures, a satyr, a child and a castle in the landscape.

Hercules at the Crossroads (The Effects of Jealousy)

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraving of a horned satyr playing a flute beside a nude woman nursing an infant among gnarled trees.

The Satyr Family

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Three Grotesque Heads in Profile (After Hogarth)

Jane Ireland, 1790

Vertical strip showing two Japanese figures, a woman with ornate hair above and a man holding a folding fan below.

Two Actors

Kikugana Eizan, 1810

Mezzotint portrait of a young boy in a plumed helmet reaching toward a parrot in a tree, with a distant house.

The Lord Euston

John Smith, 1680

Engraved Harper's Weekly page of Civil War soldiers marching, a mounted officer, and song titles like Dixie.

The Songs of the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved design of an ornamental urn on a pedestal with floral garlands and a cameo medallion.

ornament

John Edwards, 1780

Wood engraving page of Civil War news vignettes: a woman reading a letter, soldiers, sailors, and men grabbing newspapers fro

News from the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Union soldiers in a dense bayonet charge across a smoky field, rifles raised, with a tree and distant troops.

The War for the Union, 1862 - A Bayonet Charge

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Hercules strangling a lion beside a column, with a castle, tree, shield and bow in the background.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of a dancing couple on the left and a walking couple with a sword on the right, dated 1546.

July and August

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraved design of a rococo alcove bed in a paneled niche with swagged curtains and ornate scrolling carved details.

Lit en niche, from Nouveau desseins de Lambris inventees par le Sr Pineau architecte

Nicolas Pineau, 1720

Engraving of a sleeping man in a chair with a nude woman beside him, a winged cupid below, and a bat-winged creature above.

The Dream of the Doctor

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Wood engraving of men in a Baxter Street club-house: card players, a man smoking on a bed, and a reclining smoker.

The Chinese in New York - Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraved still life of a dense bouquet of carnations, roses and lilies in an ornate urn-shaped vase.

Vase of Flowers

Pieter I. Mortier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1680

Print of a bearded man in a turban and a boy carrying firewood beside a donkey, with rocks, a tree, and a distant town.

Abraham's Sacrifice

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, signed and dated 1864 at lower right.

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

H.W Rowland, 1900

Etching of a footed vase with a turtle-shaped lid and faceted finial, resting on a stone ledge.

Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases"

Benigno Bossi, 1760

Three soldiers at a camp after Thanksgiving dinner, one holding up a wish-bone while another smokes a pipe nearby.

Thanksgiving-Day in the Army - After Dinner: The Wish-Bone

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of three men in 18th-century dress on a cobbled street, one holding a drawn sword, beside stone buildings.

L'Etourdi (The Blunderer), Oeuvres de Molière (Works of Molière), Vol. I

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet, 1770

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ Child, a kneeling king, attendants, and a procession in the

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"

Israhel van Meckenem

Engraving of a covered urn with scaled body, grotesque masks and serpent handles on a stone pedestal.

Covered Vase with Grotesq

Benigno Bossi, 1760

Etching of a man in a cap and scarf, turned three-quarters, with curly hair and dense cross-hatched shading.

Rembrandt in Cap and Scarf

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Printed ticket for the World's Columbian Exposition, Manhattan Day, Oct. 21 1893, with a Statue of Liberty illustration.

Ticket to the World's Columbian Exposition, Expressly for Manhattan Day, Oct. 21st 1893

World's Columbian Exposition, 1890

Engraving of Hercules and Iolaus clubbing a many-headed hydra beneath trees, with an inscription above.

Hercules Slaying the Hydra

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraved ornamental cartouche framing a pastoral landscape with a hunter, two dogs, trees and a building on a hill.

print - Daniel Rabel, 1630

Daniel Rabel, 1630

Engraving of the Holy Family in a Gothic hall with an ornate fountain, angels and putti around the basin.

The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1520

Engraved portrait of a seated man with dividers over perforated cards in a workshop filled with tools.

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834)

V. Vebert, 1850

Dark tonal nocturne of a riverside city at dusk, with glowing lamps along the embankment and silhouetted buildings under mist

Mist of the Thames

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Two orange-bellied squirrels, one hanging upside down, climbing a tree branch with green leaves and nuts on a pale background

Orange-Bellied Squirrel

John James Audubon, 1830

Engraving of an allegorical Autumn figure with a basket of fruit, a man with a goblet, and farm workers in the background.

Four Seasons (Autumn)

Jan Saenredam, 1590

Etching of a man holding a lantern leading a donkey carrying a veiled woman through a dark night landscape.

The Flight Into Egypt: A Night Piece

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Etching of a winged Cupid resting on a cushion with a quiver of arrows on his back, draped fabric behind him.

Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Engraving of elegant courtly figures dancing around a pedestal with musicians, with a banquet and a severed head in the backg

Dance of the Daughters of Herodias

Israhel van Meckenem

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar and buttoned coat, with a Latin caption naming Petrus Brevgel below.

Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Netherlandish Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Etched portrait of a bare-shouldered woman with hand on chest before a dark wooded hillside, with German caption on left.

Woman

Arnold Böcklin, 1880

Engraving of a haloed allegorical figure with a sword and scales, standing beside a lion, in fine cross-hatched lines.

Justice

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Hand-colored plate of a Canada lynx crouching on a mossy log with foliage behind it.

Canada Lynx

John James Audubon, 1830

Etching of two figures in a dark forest looking down at a bearded man half-buried beside a skull, with an owl overhead.

The Discovery of a Buried Man

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1760

Engraved design plate numbered 79 showing an ornate coffee pot on a stand with two seated figures holding cups.

Coffee-pot and Stand from

Czech Maximilian Joseph Limpach, 1710

Engraving of two peasant couples: dancing pair on left, woman with wreath and man with staff on right, labeled September and

September and October

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of the Flight into Egypt: Mary on a donkey holding the infant Christ, angels above, palm trees and a deer.

The Flight into Egypt

Martin Schongauer, 1400

Etching of two magi and two boys seated among ruins with a sheep and a sleeping figure in the foreground.

Two Magi and Two Boys, plate 14 from the from Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of a woman beside a smoking urn, an old man kneeling with flowers, a child, and potted plants.

L'Odorat (Smell) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Engraving of soldiers gathered at a campfire under pine boughs beside a sutler's tent with signs for cider and herrings.

Thanksgiving in Camp

Winslow Homer, 1860