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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraved page of rococo ornament designs with scrolls, reeds, foliage and a fish, with a central title cartouche.

Ornament Design with Fish Motif, from Livre des Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 16 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aur…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate showing rococo sword guards, a central sword handle, and small ornamental objects in scrolling designs.

Garde d'Epées d'or pour les presens du Marriage du Roy en 1725., troisième planche [Sword Handle in honor of the King…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of rococo ornamental frame borders with scrolls, shells, foliage, a crown and a bull's head.

Developement de bordure pour la chasse du Roy, Quatre détails..., 7th Plate [Four Details of the Frame for the Huntin…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plan of a rococo porcelain writing set with shell and scroll ornament, plate 45 from Meissonnier's Oeuvre.

Plan de l'Ecritoire de Porcelaine [Design for Porcelain Writing Set, Plan, 2nd pl.], pl. 45 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved page of six rococo vegetable ornament designs around a central title cartouche, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740.

Ornament Design with Two Dead Birds lying on Acanthus Branch, from Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], p…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Colored print of a young woman in a white bonnet holding a green milk jug, inside an ornate gilded oval frame.

The Milk Woman

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1770

Engraved page of rococo border designs with a crowned fleur-de-lis cartouche and scrolling corner and edge segments.

Development du bordure pour le portrait du Roy., Deux coins de la bordure..., 5th Plate, pl. 39 in Oeuvre de Juste-Au…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Etching of a seated nude woman in a headscarf bathing her feet, set against a dark hatched background.

Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve beside the tree of knowledge, with a serpent, parrot and animals in a wooded setting.

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Hand-colored paper doll costume with a blue bodice, yellow full skirt and pink sash, shown without a head on a cut-out base.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Agathe from the opera "Der Freischutze" (The Freischutz)

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Hand-colored botanical plate of red and pink Amaryllis aulica flowers with green leaves on a white background.

Amaryllis aulica

Engraved interior with a man handing a letter to a woman at a harpsichord, another woman reading nearby, under classical arch

Le Billet Doux

Nicolas Delaunay, 1770

Etching of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and fur cloak writing at a table beside books and keys.

Portrait of Cornelis C. Anslo

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Drawing of a large factory interior with overhead cranes and workers around a massive turret structure.

Building the Great Turret

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Engraved portrait of a bald man with a mustache and pince-nez glasses in a dark suit, with a handwritten dedication below.

Proof: Portrait of Henry Wolf

Henry Wolf, 1900

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the sleeping infant Christ, both with halos, seated before a distant river landscape.

The Virgin and Child in Swaddling Clothes

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Engraving of a crowned woman beside a winged helmet, acanthus scrolls, and a skull on a shield, by Albrecht Dürer.

Coat of Arms of Vanitas

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Brown etching of a shepherd in a cloak leaning on a staff, with sheep grazing in a field behind him and trees at right.

Shepherdess Knitting

Jean-François Millet, 1860

Wood engraving of soldiers with dark lanterns and rifles reconnoitering beside a wooden barricade at night.

Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitring [sic] with Dark Lanterns

Winslow Homer, 1860

Black-and-white illustration of a man in fur clothing holding a dog harness beside three sled dogs, with a second man in a ca

"I Go For Pull Out Now, Boy," Illustration for Mooswa & Others of the Boundaries (William Briggs, 1900, p. 195)

Arthur Henry Howard Heming, 1910

Hand-colored paper doll costume with blue skirt, military jacket, red trim and tambourine, on a cut paper stand.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Marie from the opera "Die Tochter des Regiments" (The Daughter of the Regiment)

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Hand-coloured paper doll in a blue gown with gold scrollwork, yellow trim and a layered skirt, on a pale base.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Vielka from the opera "Vielka"

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Etching of a seated man in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe beside a garden wall and tree, on a tiled floor.

Prestre de la Loy (The Priest of the Law), plate 9 from the series Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (Caravan of a Sult…

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1740

Woodcut of Christ seated at table with two disciples, haloed by radiating light in an arched niche, by Dürer.

Christ at Emmaus, from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Woodcut of the risen Christ with a halo, holding a banner above a tomb while guards sleep around him.

The Resurrection, from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of a seated woman in a shawl beside an empty woven cradle against rocky cliffs, with a stick leaning nearby.

The Empty Cradle

Thomas Moran, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of a uniformed soldier in a shako saluting, holding a saber, with a handwritten dedication below.

The Military Salute

Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq, 1870

Etching of a man standing and a woman seated in a dark drawing room beside a fireplace, c. 1900.

A Couple in a Drawing Room

William Henry Hyde, 1900

Engraved illustration of an ornate ewer with serpent handle, ram head and skull decoration on a footed base.

Vase (Plate 10 of a Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

Etching of a rooster crowing on a hay pile, with hens foraging below under a hatched sky and a fence line in the distance.

Le Chant du Coq

Charles-François Daubigny, 1850