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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraved print of an ornate urn with scrolled handles, holding flowers and garlands on a pedestal table.

Vase with Flowers

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved plate of muscular nude men and draped figures with a pointing angel in clouds above, after Michelangelo's Last Judgm

Plate, from Le Jugement Universel

Tommaso Piroli, 1800

Engraved plate of stagecoach designs showing a rear view, side elevation with decorative panels, and ornamental details.

Design for a Stagecoach

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Engraved dedication page with a shield bearing a fleur-de-lis, flanked by birds and a putto, above French dedicatory text.

Dedication / Title Page

Jean-Bernard Turreau, 1700

Engraved design of a wall clock in a laurel wreath with a flaming torch, serpents, scrolls and tools below.

Wall Clock (Cartel) Design

Jean François Forty, 1770

Hand-colored floral design with pink, blue and white blossoms on lattice stems and feathery green, yellow and teal fern frond

Fantastic Flower Motif from Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers de Fleurs Idéales

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved title page with ornate scrolled cartouche, grotesque mask, and central lettering for ornament designs.

Title Page

Johann Leonhard Eisler, 1720

Engraved plate of three rococo staircase balustrade designs with scrolling panels, consoles, and a putto with urn finial.

Nouveaux desseins de Rampes d’Escalier avec Panneaux et Consolles

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1910

Etched print of six ornamental trophy designs with torches, arrows, wreaths, armor, serpents and wheat sheaves.

Trophy Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, 1640

Engraved neoclassical design of an alcove with swagged drapery, Ionic columns, urn pedestals and garland panels.

Design of an Alcove

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Porte d'Appartement avec son Profil

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Woodblock print of a crowded sailing ferryboat on water, with a rowboat, shoreline castle, and distant mountains under a pale

Kuwana: Ferryboats at Chichiri (Kuwana, Shichiri no watashibune) from the Series 53 Stations of Tokaido

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1790

Engraving of a seated man in a feathered turban and a seated woman in a gown beside a rococo chair and curtain.

La Sultane Favorite

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Engraved print of a stag head with hunting tools, a wicker basket, net, horn and flowers arranged as a trophy.

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 2 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI

Etienne Claude Voysard, 1770

Hokusai woodblock print of a coastal road with boats on the water, Mount Fuji in the distance, and travelers near a stall.

Takanawar enterance to the Tokaido (Takanawa no chidori)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1840

Etched ornament plate with a ram-headed capital above a frieze of a crowned mermaid flanked by cherubs and scrolls.

Frieze and Ornament Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, 1640

Engraved ornament panel with acanthus scrolls, cherubs with bow and torch, a hunting scene, and two seated sphinx figures.

Ornament Panel Design

Alexis Loir, 1710

Engraving of a formal Versailles fountain with a tall jet, statues, sculpted lions, and strolling figures among trees.

La Fontaine du Cabinet de Diane à Versailles (Left Plate)

Adam Pérelle, 1700

Etched portrait of a young man in a velvet cap and fur-trimmed coat, looking sideways, holding a sheet of paper.

Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol?)

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraved design for an ornamental iron balcony with scrollwork, a central eagle, and fluted pilasters on a page.

Design for an Iron Balcony

France Gabriel Bonthomme, 1770

Engraved chinoiserie ornament plate with a seated figure in a pointed hat, palms, a pagoda and rococo scrollwork.

Plate 3, from "A New Book of Chinese Ornaments"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1740

Engraved plate of an antique-style draped bed with canopy, side elevation, floor plan, and scale bar.

Designs for Beds in the Style of Antiquity

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Engraved classical landscape with figures on a riverbank, a columned temple at right, a distant castle, and dramatic clouds.

Phaeton

William Woollett, 1780

Engraving of a bearded elderly figure raising one arm above clouds, with two winged boy angels resting on a cloud below.

The Almighty in the Clouds, with Two Boy Angels

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1770

A Young Man's Head

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1800

Engraved plate of a large ornamental hair comb, a bow brooch, a chain pendant, and two decorative hair ornaments.

Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs

Pierre Moreau, 1770

Engraved hunting trophy with a hanging hare, rifle, horn, and flasks surrounded by flowering branches and a wicker basket.

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 4 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI

Etienne Claude Voysard, 1770

Engraved Annunciation scene with an angel approaching a seated woman, putti in clouds, and German and Latin verses below.

Salutatio Angelica

Johann Evangelist Holzer, 1700

Engraving of fishermen casting nets from rocks and a rowboat, with sailing ships and a harbor town under a cloudy sky.

Les Jetteurs de Fillets (Casting of Nets)

Anne Philiberte Coulet, 1780

Engraved rococo ornament design with scrollwork, a winged figure, a cherub with a bow, and a mythological relief panel.

Ornament Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, 1710