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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraved portrait of a standing officer in uniform with a sword and cloak, beside a grey horse on a grassy slope.

Portrait of Nathanael Greene

Alonzo Chappel, 1860

Engraved page of three rococo cartouches with putti, mythological figures, and a reclining dog among flowers.

Page Two from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Hu…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraving of a bird hunt with two hunters, a woman on horseback, a large tree, and flying birds before a distant castle.

Bird Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1730

Etching of a crowded Fifth Avenue at noon with pedestrians, carriages and an omnibus beside tall buildings and a stone column

Fifth Avenue, Noon

Childe Hassam, 1910

Etched portrait of a bearded old man in a plumed cap and fur-collared cloak, with a small face sketched below.

Raccolta di teste

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1780

Engraved architectural plate of an ornate double cupboard door with rococo scrollwork and a scale bar below.

Plate 3, "Decoration d'une Porte double à placards..."

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Engraving of a heavenly council with enthroned figures, cherubs and clouds, with falling figures below a beam of light.

The Council in Heaven; Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost" (After Hogarth)

Jane Ireland, 1780

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair and a fur-trimmed coat, labeled Marat, on a pale sheet.

Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Jean Paul Marat, 1800

Anne, Princess of Orange

John Faber the younger, 1730

Etching of a standing youth, a seated bearded magus with a monkey, a horned bull, and a stone sarcophagus under a tree.

Standing Youth and Seated Magus with Monkey on Leash, plate 18 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Woodblock print of a woman with a lit taper and a man crouching over a box on a red tray, with a warrior inset.

Catching a mouse

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1800

Engraved portrait of Henri of Lorraine in a dark doublet and white lace ruff, from Guizot's History of France.

Portrait of Henri, Duke of Lorraine

William Wellstood, 1840

Portrait of Honoré Daumier

Auguste Boulard the younger, 1880

Etched sheet of sketches with a central bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat, surrounded by faces, trees and a small boat.

La planche de Tzigane

Félicien Rops, 1880

Hand-colored etching of a curly-haired woman in a blue dress seated at a table beside a potted flowering plant.

Virginia Modeling

Jerome Myers, 1910

Etching of a city skyline with a Gothic tower above rooftops, with steamships and smoking factories on a harbor below.

The West Street Building from the Singer Building

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a feathered cap and white ruff collar, labeled Lord Paisly, against a stippled backgrou

Portrait of Claude Hamilton, Earl of Paisley

Edward Harding, 1800

Engraved design for an ornate tabernacle with angels, cherubs, garlands and a central religious image, inscribed in a cartouc

Design for Tabernacle, from "Tabernacles"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Etching of a brick courtyard with tall old buildings, chimneys, a large tree, and pedestrians in period dress.

Old Court, Lincoln's Inn

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Etching of Christ crowned with thorns beside a large cross, surrounded by a crowd, with Italian caption below.

Via crucis - Station X, Jesus Despoiled

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Pencil sketch of a seated nurse in a white veil at a table with a candlestick and statue beside her.

Red Cross Nurse

Childe Hassam, 1910

Etching of a shepherd poling a boat with sheep through a flooded marsh lined with bare willows and poplars.

In the Deluged Marsh - The Shepherd (Au marais inonde - Le berger)

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1910

Engraved design of a draped funerary monument with allegorical figures, flaming urns, and a reclining figure before an inscri

Catafalque

Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune, 1780

Etched page of three Rococo cartouches, one showing a reclining lion between lion heads and two with masks and scrollwork.

page Three from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraved page of three rococo ornamental panels: a crowned mask with spears, a winged horse in a cartouche, and a mask with m

Page Two from "Toisieme Livre Contenant Des Frises ou Paneaux en Longueur Inventés Par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du R…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraved plate showing shoes, boots, shoemaking lasts and pattern pieces labelled with letters, titled Cordonnier.

Cordonnier, pl. II from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Denis Diderot, 1770

Black-and-white print of the Nativity in a ruined stable, with the Virgin kneeling by the infant, angels above and a star.

The Nativity, from the Life of the Virgin series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved design of a female figure supporting a candlestand on her head, with draped swags, a landscape panel and a lion.

Design for a candlestand

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Portrait of Mauro Tesi in a medallion, surrounded by architectural elements

Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, 1780

Engraved plate of a clock dial with Roman numerals on a table beneath a classical niche and pilasters.

Design For a Clock, pl. XXI from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, 1710