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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraved plate of an ornate symmetrical pendant design with scrolling foliage, flowers and beads on a light background.

Design for a Pendant, plate XXI, from the series Tabulae Gemmiferae XXIV

Peter Symony, 1620

Circular engraved design with a jester's head at center, surrounded by scrollwork, dragons, a peacock and mythical figures.

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1590

Engraved pastoral landscape with an arched bridge over a river, grazing sheep, draped figures, and distant mountains.

Jacob and Laban (Il Ponti)

William Woollett, 1780

Engraved oval panel with a crowned nude figure on an eagle, surrounded by grotesque ornaments, scrollwork and squirrels on bl

Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

Etienne Delaune, 1580

Engraved rococo ornament with two seated figures in chinoiserie dress, one holding a parasol, beneath scrollwork and a foliag

Conversation Chinoise

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etched rococo cartouche design with a tiger on top, a cherub, grapevines, and a waterfall pouring into a basin.

Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Tiger

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Etching of a winged dragon bearing the Virgin and Child on its back, with a banner above and flames from its mouth.

Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno…

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Engraved rococo fountain design with scrolling trelliswork arches, figures, a lion, and a helmet among trees and rays of ligh

Design for Fountain with Trelliswork Arches

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of an ornate rococo altar cross with radiating rays, cherubs and a seated figure on a scrolled pedestal.

Croix d'Autel (Cross of the Altar), plate 79, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meisson…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1690

Engraving of three sailing ships tossed among fantastical sea monsters on rough waves under a dark sky.

Three ships surrounded by monsters

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Hand-colored engraving of an allegorical America: a feathered woman with a bow beside a crocodile, parrot, monkey and tropica

America

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Pope Pius VI (1775-1799)

Francesco Piranesi, 1780

Engraving of three nude women embracing in a landscape, one seen from behind, under a cloudy sky.

The Three Graces

Agostino Carracci, 1600

Proofs for Four Plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter E

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1680

Etching of Perseus flying above a sea monster while figures on a shore raise their arms beside a rocky cliff.

Perseus and Andromeda

Michael Hartwagner, 1740

Engraved design plate of a rococo water ewer with a scrolling handle, floral garland, and pedestal base.

Pot à l'eau

Pierre Germain, 1740

Sepia etching of a seated woman and a winged youth writing on a classical monument beside architectural fragments.

Etching with aquatint: Architecture

Felice Giani, 1790

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a leaping deer, hounds, arched bridge, waterfall, ostrich and fruit.

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Hand-colored engraving of armored warriors in red cloaks beneath a flowering tree, with spears, a striped standard and a hors

The Vow of Jephthah

the Younger Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1720

Etching of a Pan statue on a pedestal in woods, with figures making offerings and playing pipes beside an urn.

The Festival of Pan

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Engraving of the Nativity: kneeling Virgin beside infant Christ in a manger, shepherds with a lamb at left, angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Flemish Nicolaus van Aelst, 1600

Two engraved plates of putti: one playing flute and lyre on a pedestal, the other helmeted beside a pelt and winged cherub.

Suitte des Enfants

Michael Hartwagner, 1770

Hand-coloured ornamental bouquet of pink flowers, green leaves, orange and blue feathers and blue berries on a pale ground.

Ornamental Design with Small Red Flowers and Berries, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage d…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved ceiling design with a radiant central figure, clouds, and putti within ornamental architectural framing.

Projet d'un Plafond de Peinture pour la Chapelle de la Vierge de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for Painted Ceiling for…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a seated painter sketching a nude woman at an easel while a helmeted figure looks on, with Latin verse below.

Alexander the Great Offering Campaspe to Apelles

Johann Martin Weis

Engraved rococo ornament design with scrolling cartouche, seated robed figure, kneeling attendant, urn, and grotesque masks.

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etching of two seated children beneath a gnarled tree with a large hanging fruit and leafy branches.

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Hand-colored engraved plate of ferns, flowers and a banner with French title text, numbered 3 at bottom.

Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres, no. 3

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

Engraved Crucifixion scene with Mary, John, and a kneeling woman at the cross, framed by Passion instruments and angels.

The Crucifixion

Flemish Anthonie Wierix, 1590

Engraved rococo panelling design for a cabinet with a central mirror over a settee, flanked by wall consoles, a candelabra an

Decoration de Lambris pour un Cabinet (Decoration for Panelling for an Office)

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1690

Engraving of men catching snakes with forked sticks in a marsh, with dogs, frogs, trees and ruins in the background.

Hunting snakes

Flemish Cornelis Galle I, 1600

Engraved cartouche showing a seated woman with an incense burner beside a camel, with palm trees and a building in the backgr

L'Asie

Marie Michelle Blondel, 1730

Engraving of a rearing horse with a bridle, labeled GALLICVS, with a city and hills in the background.

A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Etched rococo cartouche design with a reclining cherub, lyre, scrolls, and architectural ruins at its base.

Design for a Cartouche Representing Architecture

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved elevation of a riding academy side wall with arched windows, draped curtains, garlands, and chandeliers.

Side Wall Elevation of the Riding Academy, Vienna

Francesco Zucchi, 1740

Engraved rococo cartouche design with crown, putti, lions and winged griffins, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger.

Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1790

Engraved rococo candelabra design with cherub and scrolling foliage above a decorative title cartouche with dolphins.

CINQUIEME LIVRE D'ORNAMENS Inventés Par J.A. Meissonnier et Gravé par Huquier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rococo designs by Meissonnier: a table centerpiece above a royal wash basin with putti and scrollwork feet.

Cuvette pour le Roy [Design for the King's Wash Basin], pl. 56 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Pen and ink drawing of a man in a pinstriped suit and long coat holding a tennis racket, signed below the figure.

Play

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Japanese woodblock print of porters loading cargo onto horses at a roadside post station beneath a teal sky.

Fujiyeda Post Station, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Etched title plate with an oval floral cartouche holding the IHS monogram, topped by a ribbon bow and flanked by flower ornam

"Title Plate," Plate 1 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, 1650

Engraved interior design of a fireplace wall with porcelain vases, a lacquered panel of figures in landscape, and an upholste

Design for a Chimney Wall with Lacquered Panels and Porcelain from "Nouvelles Chiminees Faittes en Plusieur en Droits…

Engraving of Union soldiers sleeping on the ground by their rifles in a bare field, with a standing sentry at center.

Army of the Potomac - Sleeping on their Arms

Winslow Homer, 1860

Wood engraving of Civil War soldiers, a central wheel of dated years, Lincoln portrait, farmers, women and children from Harp

1860-1870

Winslow Homer, 1870

Etched print of a bearded pasha in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe standing by a step, with a distant landscape.

Bacha de Caramanie (A Pasha from Karamin), plate 7 from Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca)

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1740

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a seated bull, winged figure, scrolls, and floral sprays, numbered 32.

Plate 32, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of a bearded hunter on horseback with a leopard, dogs and a leopard chasing rabbits in a wooded landscape.

Rabbit hunt

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair and fur collar, with Latin inscription below, dated 1520.

Portrait of Wilibald Pirkheimer

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Etching of an angel appearing in light above shepherds with sheep and cattle in a dark wooded landscape.

Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

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

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ across her lap, with radiant light, a crown of thorns and a distant cros

Pieta

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1590

Etching of a beggar family receiving coins from a man at a house doorway, with a woman carrying a basket and child.

Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Engraving of a bearded man pointing to his forehead beside a woman holding an ornate covered jar, with a distant landscape.

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved heraldic design with a central coat of arms, two armored warriors, a St. George medallion and a Latin inscription.

Arms of the Pfinzing von

Matthias Zündt, 1560

Woodcut title page showing crowned Christ seated on a bench beside a kneeling man, with Latin text above and verse below.

Title Page, The Great Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of three ornate flower vases with serpent handles and carved masks, each holding a bouquet of blossoms.

Vases, from Le Blanc 4

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750

Engraving of five lansquenet soldiers and a turbaned rider on horseback in a landscape with trees.

Five Lansquenets and an Oriental on Horseback

Albrecht Dürer

Engraving of Venus and Cupid seated in a forge with blacksmiths working at an anvil and weapons scattered nearby.

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Gérard de Lairesse, 1700

Etching of figures gathered around an infant in a dim interior with a ladder and barrel at left.

The Circumcision in the Stable

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child and a parrot, with a tree and castle in the background.

Virgin and Child with Parrot

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of three winged angels standing as a bearded man kneels before them beside a ruined building and tree branches.

Abraham and the Three Angels

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with a star crown, holding the infant Christ and a sceptre, standing on a crescent moon.

The Virgin with the Crown of Stars

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of a woman weaving flowers, a man playing a flute with a bird on his shoulder, and sheep and a goat by a tree.

The Flute Player

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Woodcut of seated Christ with crown of thorns and radiant halo, head resting on hand, with Latin title and verse text.

The Small Passion (Title Page)

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of Adam and Eve by a tree with a serpent, surrounded by animals including an ostrich, deer, lion and monkey.

The Fall of Man

the Elder Jan Sadeler, 1590

Woodcut of mourners carrying a draped body beneath a pointed arch, with dense hatched lines in the background.

Entombment

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of mourners lowering Christ's body into a stone tomb, with a crown of thorns and a bare tree.

The Entombment

Martin Schongauer, 1400