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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Etched portrait of a bearded man with curly hair, lace collar and dark cloak, with Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Lucas Vorsterman I, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Netherlandish Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Engraved design of a rococo bedchamber paneling with an alcove bed, bust cartouche, door, commode and clock.

Dessin de Lambris d'une chambre a coucher avec lit en niche

Nicolas Pineau, 1720

Etching of bearded men in turbans beside a carved stone pedestal with a lion mask, a seated figure in the foreground.

Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Sketch of a woman in a loose robe reading in a tufted armchair beside a doorway.

Déshabille

Childe Hassam, 1910

Engraving of peasants feasting at a table under a grapevine trellis, with a man drinking from a tankard.

The Peasant's Feast, or, The Twelve Months

Sebald Beham, 1540

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, 1730

Hand-coloured print of a crowded auction room with an auctioneer on a rostrum, framed paintings on walls, and figures in peri

Christie's Auction Room

Augustus Charles Pugin, 1800

Engraved ornamental fan design with a standing female figure, seated figures, potted trees, cherubs on dolphins, and scrollwo

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

Alexis Loir, 1670

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

Pencil-like sketch of a harbor town with rooftops, a tall tower, and masts reflected in still water.

Inner Harbor

Childe Hassam, 1910

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

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

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

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

Decorative Panel: Sea Monsters

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1540

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

Ornament & vases, pl. 1

William Darling, 1770

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

Jewelry Designs

S.H. Dinglinger, 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

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

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

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

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

Engraving of Hercules strangling the giant Antaeus in a rocky landscape beside a tree, both figures nude.

Hercules and Antaeus

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraved oval portrait of a bishop in a dark cassock and white collar, with a cross pendant and a coat of arms below.

Portrait of Francois de Nesmond

Robert Nanteuil, 1660

Engraving of turbaned hunters with dogs attacking a lion beneath a large flowering palm tree.

Lion Hunt

Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1730

Engraved ornamental plate with a curling acanthus scroll and spiral end above a band of rosettes on blue-grey paper.

Ornament & vases, pl. 5

William Darling, 1770

Engraved ornamental panels with scrolling foliage, a bearded mask beneath a fruit bowl, and an old man with two children.

Ornamental Foliage with a Mask and a Bowl of Fruit (Autre, offrant au milieu d'en bas un mascaron...) Ornamental Foli…

Enea Vico, 1530

Engraved title page with the words Calligraphia Latina framed by twisted columns, winged putti and ornate flourishes.

Title Page "Calligraphia Latina," in Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphiae nomenclatione...

Johann Caspar Schwab, 1750