New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

6,799 works

Featured

Filters

Color

Shape

Century

Red-ink engraving of a basket of tulips, poppies and lilies arranged within a ruled border.

Basket of Flowers, Plate

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1770

Etched landscape of a hilltop castle above timber houses, trees, a distant town and mountains under clouds.

Print - Hanns Lautensack, 1550

Hanns Lautensack, 1550

Engraved portrait of a seated man with curly hair and white cravat, arched frame, script name Campbell below.

Portrait of Thomas Campbell

Oliver Pelton, 1820

Hand-colored oval portrait print of a man in a red cap and ruff holding a crossbow, captioned Guillaume Tell.

Portrait of Wilhelm Tell

Pierre-Michel Alix, 1800

Engraving of a bearded figure like Atlas holding up a celestial globe with zodiac signs and Roman numeral clock markings.

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

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, 1710

Etching of a Gothic skyscraper above construction cranes, scaffolding and workers on Vesey Street, with smoke filling the sky

Caissons on Vesey Street

Joseph Pennell, 1920

Hand-coloured print of the goddess Flora floating over a landscape, dropping garlands of flowers toward a pedestal monument b

Flora Dispensing Her Favours on the Earth

Thomas Woolnooth Sr, 1800

Engraved trophy design with winged figures, laurel wreath, shields, banners, and a battle scene in the landscape below.

Trophy

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Engraved view of the Tuileries Palace with soldiers on parade, a carriage, and crowds in the foreground, 1800.

View of the Tuilleries Palace, Paris

John Pye the younger, 1800

Etched architectural design of a French alcove with columns, draped curtain, sculpted female figures and pastoral wall panels

Design for a French Alcove, from "Alcoves à le Francoise"

Jean Le Pautre, 1670

Etching of Windsor Castle towers rising above trees along a river, with rowing boats on the water and figures on the bank.

Windsor from Eton

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Etching of a wooded path lined with gnarled trees, with grassy sandy ground in the foreground.

The Three Sisters

Francis Seymour Haden, 1860

Engraved print of a mounted cavalry captain in armor and plumed hat, sword raised, with fallen weapons and a battle scene bel

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Captain of Cavalry

Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1720

Sepia print of a girl on a stone bench with a toddler and a small dog beside her, with a barrel and foliage behind.

Du Cabinet de Madame d'Azaincourt

Flemish Gilles Demarteau, 1770

Engraving of a ragged kneeling man before robed figures under a tree, with a town and mountains in the background.

Return of the Prodigal Son

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved ornamental page with rococo panels showing scrollwork, cherubs, urns, garlands, and masks.

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

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraving of two couples in 16th-century dress walking on grass, one man raising his hand, with inscribed names above.

March and April

Sebald Beham, 1540

Etching of a Gothic stone gateway with a pointed arch, carved heads, and two pedestrians walking through toward a street.

Saint John's Gate, Clerkenwell

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Charcoal sketch of warships in a harbor under a sunburst breaking through clouds, with a small tugboat in the foreground.

Return of the Fleet

Childe Hassam, 1910

Etching of Christ seated by a well speaking with a woman, with ruins and a small crowd in the background.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraving of soldiers attacking mothers and infants with daggers, with nude men standing in the foreground at right.

Massacre of the Innocents

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1590

Engraving of St. Jerome writing at a table in a study, with a sleeping lion and dog on the floor and a skull on the sill.

St. Jerome in his Study

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of a busy studio where a painter works on a knight slaying a dragon while assistants draw, grind pigments and sculp

Color Olivi (Invention of Oil Painting), plate 14 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Chiaroscuro print of Apollo playing a lyre beside a seated satyr, Marsyas, in an oval frame, in blue and green tones.

Apollo and Marsyas

Antonio Maria Zanetti, 1720

Engraving of a bearded bagpiper in a turban playing bagpipes while leaning against a tree trunk.

The Bagpiper

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of two costumed dancers in a forest clearing beside a waterfall, with French verse printed below the scene.

Scene from the Opera "Sylvie"

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, 1760

Hand-colored print of two women with jewelry on a table, while two children stand and lie nearby in a classical interior.

La Mere des Gracques, plate 46 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Etching of a stone arch bridge over a river with church spires and city buildings behind, and figures on stairs in the foregr

London Bridge Stairs

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved design of an ornate table clock with a cherub on top, Roman numeral dial, caryatid figures and griffins.

Design for a table clock

Daniël Marot, 1710

Monochrome print of Samson restrained by armored soldiers while Delilah looks on, with heavy curtains and a raised sword.

The Blinding of Samson

Johann Jacobé, 1780

Etching of London skyline with St Paul's dome, an obelisk and a bridge seen over dark trees in the foreground.

London over Embankment Gardens

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraved bust portrait of a bespectacled man with curly hair, wearing a dark jacket and frilled cravat.

Portrait of James Hogg

William Nicholson

Etching of a satyr family beside a ruined wall and obelisk, with a seated woman, a child, and scattered objects on the ground

Satyr Family with an Obelisk, plate 11 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraved page with three ornamental designs: a fireplace front, a door overdoor, and a tall dining room panel with satyrs.

Title Page and Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Etching of a forest road curving past tall trees and grassy hills, with two small figures and a distant town on the left.

Landscape With Two Figures in a Road

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Engraving of soldiers attacking a covered way before a walled city with a tower and church spires, under a cloudy sky.

An Attack and Lodgement on the Covert Way, from Twelve of the Most Remarkable Sieges and Battles in Europe

Carington Bowles, 1770

Engraved title page with putti, fruit garlands, a coat of arms and a central inscription for Raphael's Genesis loggia frescoe

''La Sacra Genesi figurata da Rafaele D'Urbino nelle logge vaticane'' (Title Page, Raphael's Genesis Frescoes in the…

Francesco Villamena, 1620

Etched portrait of a mustached man in a dark jacket and cravat, turned to the right, titled Portrait of Paul J. A. Baudry.

Portrait of Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry

Paul Adolphe Rajon, 1880

Etching of an elderly man in a dark study gazing at a glowing disc with letters before a gothic window.

Faust in His Study, Watching a Magic Disc

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long curly hair, lace collar and cloak, inside an inscribed frame on a pedestal.

Portrait of Jean Chapelain

Robert Nanteuil, 1650

Etching of a busy Knightsbridge street with ornate turreted buildings, horse carriages and pedestrians in period dress.

Knightsbridge

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono standing beneath cherry blossoms on a grassy riverbank.

Woman viewing Cherry Blossoms on the Bank of the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hana no kei)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1830

Engraved print of New York City Hall with an American flag, a domed cupola, a horse-drawn carriage and pedestrians on the str

City Hall, New York

J. Archer, 1820

Etching of a village with ruined walls, a smoking tower, villagers, and a rider with cattle on a road.

Landscape With Town in Ruins

Israel Silverstre, 1650

Engraved ornamental design with a crucifixion in an oval medallion, flanked by winged angels and putti.

Design for Holy Water Spouts, from "Inventions Pour Faire des Plaques"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Etching of a multi-story house behind an ornate wrought iron fence, with ivy on the walls and trees at right.

Rossetti's House

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraving of an ornate tower-shaped festival float pulled by plumed horses, with figures in armor and a banner above.

Print - Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Etching of Christ falling under the cross with a helper and soldiers at right, bare trees, and an Italian caption below.

Via crucis - Station VII, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Second Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraved design of a tiered epergne with shell bowls, flowers, scrolls and two putti, on a plain page.

Epergne, from "Disegni Di

Czech Maximilian Joseph Limpach, 1710

Etching of three dead rats hanging from wire mousetraps on a wooden board, with a box trap at left and French verse below.

The mousetrap

Charles Émile Jacque, 1860

Etching of Hampton Court Palace's facade across a formal garden with clipped trees and a stone urn in the foreground.

Hampton Court Palace

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Colored lithograph of an old bearded man in a purple robe pushing a younger man headfirst off a rock into the sea.

Telemaque et Mentor, plate 29 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Etching of a tall Gothic church tower surrounded by city buildings, with small pedestrians in the street below.

The Church Across the Way

Childe Hassam, 1910

Etching of a seated woman with a reclining satyr child, goats, a tree and a distant village in a landscape.

Woman with an Infant Satyr, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraved title page with French text inside an ornate rococo cartouche frame topped by a bird head and garlands.

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

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1770

Etching of two bearded philosophers and a boy examining a skull beside a dog, with a tree and draped backdrop.

Two Philosophers and Boy, plate 22 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraved portrait of a seated woman in a white gown and pearl necklace, holding a fan, before a draped curtain.

Portrait of Sally McKean, Marchioness of Yrujo

Gilbert Stuart, 1820

Engraving of soldiers killing infants and attacking mothers among classical columns, with a Latin Matthew 2:16 inscription be

The Massacre of the Innocents

Giovanni Volpato, 1770

Engraved mantelpiece design with two angels holding a cross above a medallion scene and laurel-wreathed masks below.

Design for Mantlepiece, from "Cheminées a la Modern"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Woman wearing a hat

Jules de Goncourt, 1840

Engraving of Altenburg Castle on a hill above a town with trees and half-timbered houses under a cloudy sky.

View of Altenburg Castle

Christian August Günther, 1800

Engraved stage design of a royal banquet hall with arcades, chandeliers, and a draped table with seated figures.

Stage Design: A Banquet Hall

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, 1740

Engraved rococo clock design with an empty oval panel, two putti beneath a shell crown, and lion figures at the base.

Page Five from "Second Licre Contenant Differens Desseins de Pendules Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi e…

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1770

Etching of Rouen seen from a wooded hill, with the Seine, stone bridges, and a tall cathedral spire on the skyline.

Rouen from Bon Secours

Joseph Pennell, 1900