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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraving of Noah's Ark with animals boarding a wooden ark, birds flying under clouds, and robed figures in the foreground.

Noah's Ark

the Elder Jan Sadeler, 1650

Etching of figures on a stone arch bridge beside large trees, with a rowboat in the river and a dog on the bank.

Figures on a Stone Bridge

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Etching of Christ crowned with thorns beside a large cross, surrounded by a crowd, with Italian caption below.

Via crucis - Station X, Jesus Despoiled

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

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

Etched ceiling design with a central medallion of a reclining figure, winged figures, fruit garlands and ornate strapwork bor

Ceiling, from "Plafonds Modernes"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Etching of a shepherd poling a boat with sheep through a flooded marsh lined with bare willows and poplars.

In the Deluged Marsh - The Shepherd (Au marais inonde - Le berger)

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1910

Engraved design of a draped funerary monument with allegorical figures, flaming urns, and a reclining figure before an inscri

Catafalque

Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune, 1780

Etched page of three Rococo cartouches, one showing a reclining lion between lion heads and two with masks and scrollwork.

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

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Print of a fortified city under siege, with armies in combat, cannon smoke, and a wide rural landscape.

Siege of a City (Part 1)

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Engraving of the Holy Family with putti and a garland of flowers before classical ruins and a distant town.

The Holy Family with Putti

Claudine Stella, 1660

Engraved page of three rococo ornamental panels: a crowned mask with spears, a winged horse in a cartouche, and a mask with m

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

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraved plate showing shoes, boots, shoemaking lasts and pattern pieces labelled with letters, titled Cordonnier.

Cordonnier, pl. II from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Denis Diderot, 1770

Engraved print of an ornate chapel doorway with carved railings, lion sculptures, a crown emblem and small figures in the for

Railings for Chapels, from "Clostures de Chapelles"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Engraved panoramic view of a riverside town with houses, steep hills, mountains, trees and small figures in the foreground.

Panoramic View of the City of Ems, Germany

Johann Hürlimann, 1830

Engraved frieze of sea nymphs, a piping satyr, putti and a sea dragon in fine line hatching.

Ornamental Frieze with Sea Nymphs

Michiel le Blon, 1630

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

Black-and-white print of the Nativity in a ruined stable, with the Virgin kneeling by the infant, angels above and a star.

The Nativity, from the Life of the Virgin series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved design of a female figure supporting a candlestand on her head, with draped swags, a landscape panel and a lion.

Design for a candlestand

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

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

Decorative Panel: Sea Monsters

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1540

Engraved plate showing two buildings of Parliament: gothic-towered House of Commons from the Thames and classical House of Lo

The Two Houses of Parliament, from Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, 1740

Portrait of Mauro Tesi in a medallion, surrounded by architectural elements

Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, 1780

Etching of a fortified riverside town on the Rhine with moored sailing boats, rowers, and a windmill on the far bank.

A Small Fort on the Rhine Near Cleves

Franz Edmund Weirotter, 1770

Engraved plate of a clock dial with Roman numerals on a table beneath a classical niche and pilasters.

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

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, 1710

Engraved portrait of a seated man with a wig, holding a charter, beside a globe, with ships visible at sea.

Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram (1668-1751)

William Nutter, 1790

Engraved portrait of a seated elderly man in a dark coat and lace cravat, with mechanical drawings nearby.

Portrait of James Watt

William Nicholson, 1810

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 print of the Madonna holding the infant Christ with young Saint John beside them in a circular frame.

The Madonna della Sedia

Raphael Morghen, 1800

La Noblesse

Jacques Callot, 1620

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

Ornament & vases, pl. 1

William Darling, 1770