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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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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

Etched ceiling design with a central medallion of a reclining figure, winged figures, fruit garlands and ornate strapwork bor

Ceiling, from "Plafonds Modernes"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

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

Print of a fortified city under siege, with armies in combat, cannon smoke, and a wide rural landscape.

Siege of a City (Part 1)

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Engraving of the Holy Family with putti and a garland of flowers before classical ruins and a distant town.

The Holy Family with Putti

Claudine Stella, 1660

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

Engraved print of an ornate chapel doorway with carved railings, lion sculptures, a crown emblem and small figures in the for

Railings for Chapels, from "Clostures de Chapelles"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Engraved panoramic view of a riverside town with houses, steep hills, mountains, trees and small figures in the foreground.

Panoramic View of the City of Ems, Germany

Johann Hürlimann, 1830

Engraved frieze of sea nymphs, a piping satyr, putti and a sea dragon in fine line hatching.

Ornamental Frieze with Sea Nymphs

Michiel le Blon, 1630

Hand-colored print of three men in 18th-century dress with powdered wigs walking on a hillside, one gesturing mid-conversatio

College Friends Out for a Walk

Pierre-Alexandre Wille, 1810

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

Engraved decorative border of putti riding sea monsters and dolphins over rippling waves.

Decorative Panel: Sea Monsters

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1540

Engraved plate showing two buildings of Parliament: gothic-towered House of Commons from the Thames and classical House of Lo

The Two Houses of Parliament, from Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, 1740

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

Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, 1780

Etching of a fortified riverside town on the Rhine with moored sailing boats, rowers, and a windmill on the far bank.

A Small Fort on the Rhine Near Cleves

Franz Edmund Weirotter, 1770

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

Engraved portrait of a seated man with a wig, holding a charter, beside a globe, with ships visible at sea.

Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram (1668-1751)

William Nutter, 1790

Engraved portrait of a seated elderly man in a dark coat and lace cravat, with mechanical drawings nearby.

Portrait of James Watt

William Nicholson

Engraved ornamental panel with a central landscape medallion, winged figures, garlands, censers and putti in relief.

Ornamental Panel Surmounted by a Medallion with a Sacrifice, plate 5 from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques Peintes da…

Michel Dorigny, 1640

Grey lithograph of a French cruiser on harbor water with a shoreline of smokestacks and buildings behind it.

French Cruiser

Childe Hassam, 1910

Engraved print of the Madonna holding the infant Christ with young Saint John beside them in a circular frame.

The Madonna della Sedia

Raphael Morghen, 1800

La Noblesse

Jacques Callot, 1620

Engraved ornament plate with interlocking acanthus leaf scrolls on a grey-tinted ground.

Ornament & vases, pl. 1

William Darling, 1770

Engraving of a nighttime fireworks display over a garden pavilion with fountains, obelisks and a crowd of spectators in the f

Fireworks in Meudon

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1730

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a skullcap leaning on a stone balustrade, with Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Wencelaus Coeberger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Flemish Lucas Vorsterman, 1630

Engraved plate of symmetrical jewelry designs with floral garlands, oval frames, scrollwork and teardrop pendants on cream pa

Jewelry Designs

S.H. Dinglinger, 1750

Etching of a bearded man seated on a bed, hand to his head, surrounded by shadowy grotesque figures in darkness.

A nightmare

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Engraved print of a standing woman in ornate robes before an obelisk and ruins, framed by rococo scrollwork and flowers.

Octavia Empress to Nero, in escutcheon

Étienne Charpentier, 1750

Lithograph of three decorative friezes with acanthus scrolls, a swan, a heron, putti, a medallion bust and a fruit basket.

Three Friezes and Ornamen

Gottfried Engelmann, 1810

Hand-colored print of a mail coach with horses stuck in a snowdrift on a winter road, with travelers and snowy trees.

Optical TOy: "The London Mail Obstructed by a Snowdrift" (Spooner's Protean Views, no. 16)

England William Spooner, 1830

Etching of a rooster on a pedestal, a ladder, a wooden cross with thorns and cloth, and the words VIA CRUCIS on a wall.

Frontispiece of the Via crucis (Stations of the Cross)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Etching of Trinity Church spire at the end of a crowded Wall Street lined with tall stone buildings and pedestrians.

Trinity Church from Wall Street

Vaughan Trowbridge, 1910

Etching of Christ falling under the cross beside Roman soldiers and a crowd, with a classical arch behind, labeled Stazione I

Via crucis - Station III, He Falls Beneath the Cross the First Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraved plate of a rococo fireplace design with mirror, tapestry panels and hearth plan below.

Plate 4, Decoration de Cheminée pour un grand Apartement

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Colored print of a Antwerp fish market with woven baskets, a Madonna statue on a stone pillar, and women in red skirts.

Fish Market, Antwerp

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1830

Hand-colored peep-show print of Somerset House and St Mary's Church in the Strand, with carriages and pedestrians on the stre

Peep-show, Vue de la Maison Royale de Somerset Avec l'Eglise de St. Marie Dans le Strand à Londres (A View of Somsers…

de Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, 1740

Engraving of a reclining winged male figure on a rock beside foliage and an ornate scroll, on a cream sheet.

The Letter S

Giovanni Battista Betti, 1770

Woodcut of a knight on a rearing horse lancing a dragon, with skulls and bones on the ground.

St. George Killing the Dr

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of Westminster showing Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament across the Thames, with boats on the water.

Westminster

Joseph Pennell, 1890

Engraving of a barefoot shepherdess holding a spindle beside a tree, with a seated boy and sheep and lambs nearby.

La Bergere Laborieuse

Jean Michel Liotard, 1750

Engraving of Christ's body being lowered from the cross by men on ladders while mourners gather below.

Descent from the Cross

G.L.D, 1590

Engraved page of three vertical rococo ornament designs: a candelabra, a figural pilaster with shield, and a scrolled support

Page Five from "Quatrieme Livre Contenant Des Montans où Pilastres Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et G…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Etching of fishermen's huts and a sailboat on a shore with distant hills and a cloudy sky.

Cabane De Pecheurs (Cotes de l'Italie)

Adolphe Appian, 1870

Engraving of nude Hercules raising a club over the fallen fire-breathing Cacus beside rocks, with a cow head peeking out.

Hercules and Cacus

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of a violent cavalry battle with rearing horses, armored riders with raised sabers, and a fallen soldier with a shi

The Battle of Anghieri

Flemish Gerard Edelinck, 1680

Engraving of a chaotic battle with armored riders, rearing horses, fallen soldiers, and a rocky landscape behind them.

Print - Marco Dente, 1520

Marco Dente, 1520

Engraving of the Holy Family with a seated Virgin, infant Christ, reading Joseph, palm tree and classical building in a lands

Holy Family

Guillaume Château, 1650

Engraved portrait of a young woman in a striped head wrap, looking over her shoulder, with Latin caption and coat of arms bel

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci

Pietro Bettelini, 1800

Engraving of a mounted soldier with helmet and musket on a white horse, a second rider behind him, camp figures in the backgr

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Soldiers

Georg Philip Rugendas, 1720

Lithograph of a ragged man walking with a thin dog on a rope, from Daumier's Histoire Ancienne, plate 7.

Le Retour d'Ulysse, plate 7 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Engraved view of Hampton Court from the Thames, with a wooden bridge, palace buildings, boats and figures on the bank.

View of Hampton Court from the Thames River, from Walter Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, 1740

Black and white plate of neoclassical friezes with swans, urns, scrolls, rosettes and fluted columns, labeled Pl. 3.

Frieze and Ornamental Bor

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Etching of horse-drawn cabs waiting on a rainy city street beside tall buildings, with pedestrians under umbrellas and lamp p

The cab stand

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1870

Colored caricature of a helmeted young warrior with spear facing a bearded older man in a purple robe before classical column

Telemaque Rendu a la Vertu

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Engraving of peasants behind a woven hedge with a pig, a tree, and two German inscription banners above.

Peasants Behind the Hedge

Sebald Beham, 1540

Black and white engraving of a cross wrapped in passion flower vines with a crown above and the title Bearing the Cross.

Title page: "Bearing the Cross"

S. A. Grant, 1850

Etching of a seated skeleton at right, a crowd of onlookers at a doorway, and a thin dog in the foreground.

Death Giving Audience, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Etching of a nude nymph touching a bearded man holding a sketchbook, with a small child beside him in a forest.

Artist and a nymph, from Twelve Etchings by Chifflart

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Etching of the ornate Gros Horloge clock tower in Rouen, seen through an archway with a street and spire beyond.

Gros Horloge, Rouen

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Etching of a reclining nude woman, a child, and a vine-draped figure before ruins and a cloudy landscape.

...vino pellite curas (Horace's Odes)

Giovanni David, 1770