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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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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

Black and white engraving of a cross wrapped in passion flower vines with a crown above and the title Bearing the Cross.

Title page: "Bearing the Cross"

S. A. Grant, 1850

Etching of a seated skeleton at right, a crowd of onlookers at a doorway, and a thin dog in the foreground.

Death Giving Audience, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Etching of a nude nymph touching a bearded man holding a sketchbook, with a small child beside him in a forest.

Artist and a nymph, from Twelve Etchings by Chifflart

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Etching of the ornate Gros Horloge clock tower in Rouen, seen through an archway with a street and spire beyond.

Gros Horloge, Rouen

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Etching of a reclining nude woman, a child, and a vine-draped figure before ruins and a cloudy landscape.

...vino pellite curas (Horace's Odes)

Giovanni David, 1770

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

Hercules and Antaeus

Sebald Beham, 1540

Etching of two soldiers and two women gathered around a stone bench beneath trees, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Two Soldiers and Two Women, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Etching of Leadenhall Market's ornate arched entrance with crowds of pedestrians and hanging lanterns under a vaulted roof.

Leadenhall Market, II

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Etching of a wooded landscape with tall trees, rolling hills, cattle, and two figures near a path in the lower right.

Mercury and Argus in a Wooded Landscape

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Etched decorative frieze with two lions and a putto among acanthus scrolls, with a printed Paris publisher inscription below.

Frieze

Jean Le Pautre, 1660

Engraved portrait of a seated man with a portfolio beside a plaster bust, easel, and painter's palette in a studio.

Portrait of Washington Allston

Johnson Fry, 1860

Etching of crumbling Roman brick ruins with arched openings, overgrown trees, scattered stone fragments and small figures.

Baths of Trajan

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1770

Hand-colored caricature of a top-hatted gentleman on a street, pulled by a monkey while a ragged man and a woman look on.

Print - Pierre Maleuvre, 1810

Pierre Maleuvre, 1810

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

Navy discharge certificate with engraved ship vignette on rough sea, calligraphic text, and handwritten name William McFaul.

Certificate: Navy Department Discharge

William McFaul, 1860

Oval bust portrait print of a man with white powdered hair, brown coat, red collar and white cravat, dated 1800.

Portrait of Louis Michel Le peletier de Saint-Fargeau

Pierre-Michel Alix, 1800

Etching of the Horse Guards building in London with a domed clock tower, arched entrance, and small figures in the street.

The Horse Guards

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Engraving of a large bouquet of tulips, irises, peonies and pansies in an ornate urn with figures and garlands.

Flowers in a Vase

Mathurin Duchesne, 1650

Hand-colored print of ships in a bay below a castle on cliffs, with figures working on the shore in the foreground.

Peep-show, Vue des Environs D'ostende

N. Courteille, 1740

Engraved page with three ornamental designs: a flower urn chimney panel, a lyre and palette door panel, and Minerva among che

Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1780

Engraved print of two vertical ornamental panels with classical armor, putti, laurel wreaths and a horse medallion.

Set of Trophies, from "Trophey a l'Antique"

Jean Le Pautre, 1680

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

Lion Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1730

Engraved design of an ornate altar with a central religious panel, winged angels holding a cross, and classical garlands.

Design for Altars, from "Autels et Retables"

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Etching of a forest path with tall trees, a wooden footbridge over a pond, and a distant church tower under an open sky.

Entrance Into a Forest by a Little Wooden Bridge

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

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 design with a scrolled cartouche and two allegorical figures, one nude and one winged, in an arched archi

Page Three from "Premier Livre De Differents morceaux A l'Usage de tous ceux qui s'appliquent aux beuax Arts Inventé…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Engraving comparing a men's bar scene labeled All Right with a women's bar scene labeled All Wrong, both with drinks and spit

Where's the Difference

Thomas Nast, 1860

Engraved street view of The Hague with a horse-drawn carriage, pedestrians, a long building and trees framing the right edge.

Peep-show, View of the Pond Near the Shooting Garden in the Hague

Georg Balthasar Probst, 1800