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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraved grotesque ornament with putti, winged manticores, an urn, goats and a bearded mask among acanthus scrolls.

Grotesque with Putti and Manticore

Master of the Die, 1530

Engraved octagonal ornament plate with symmetrical scrolling foliage, grotesque masks, and birds, numbered 2 at upper left.

Plate 2, from Die Folge der phantastischen Schmucksträße (Suite of Fantastic Ornamental Bouquets)

Wendel Dietterlin the Younger, 1610

Hand-colored engraving of an asymmetrical rococo cartouche framed by rock, roots, leaves and small red flowers.

Design for Asymmetrical Cartouche

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved rococo design of a waterfall, classical columns, an urn and rocaille scrollwork framing a landscape with animals.

Rocaille (rococo design), in Nouveaux morceaux pour des paravents (New concepts for screens)

François Boucher, 1730

Engraved rococo wainscoting design with a double door, landscape panels with figures, and a cherub scene above.

Design for Wainscoting with a Double Door

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Circular rococo cartouche of scrolls and foliage framing classical columns, a fountain and trees in a garden scene.

Ornament

Matthias Lock, 1740

Engraved rococo cartouche design with scrollwork, grapevines, a lion mask, bottles, fruit and a hanging hare.

Design for a Cartouche

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved plate of an ornate rococo candlestick with scrolled shaft and floral base, plus a small garden scene below.

Design for a Candlestick, plate 75, from Cinquième Livre d'Ornemens, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of two horses, labeled Romanus and Equus Matronalis, before a distant walled city with a bridge.

A Roman Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraved plate of two rococo pier glass frames with scrolling ornament, birds and a small figure, by Thomas Chippendale.

Pier Glass Frame

Thomas Chippendale, 1750

Engraved rococo cartouche design with scrolled borders set against a rocky grotto and waterfalls, on a book page.

Design for a Cartouche Evoking the Continent of Asia

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Etched fan leaf design with cherubs, lions, a flower urn, and scrolling ornament in a semicircular frame.

Fan leaves, Second half of the set "Desseins d'Eventails et Ecrans

Nicolas Pierre Loir

Engraved rococo design of a five-branch candelabra with candles, a cherub and scrolling foliage, above a decorative title car

Projet de grand Chandelier à branche pour le Roy., Chandelier à cinq branches avec un dragon, 2nd Plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of rococo shell-shaped salt dish designs above an ornate nef with sea creature figures.

Differents Desseins de Sallieres [Various Designs for Salt Dishes], pl. 63 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a standing woman in flowing drapery with a river, bridge, and hilltop castles in the landscape behind her.

Debora

Netherlandish Jacob Matham, 1580

Engraved design of an ornate footed ewer with a looping handle, satyr figures, a child and a lion mask on its body.

Ewer with Handle

Flemish Cornelis Floris II, 1540

Engraved ornamental plate with grotesque scrollwork, armored figures, sphinxes, and a horseback rider in clouds at center.

Plate 17, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of bearded Silenus riding a donkey with a satyr holding a cup, a dog, and putti in a landscape.

Silenus Riding on an Ass

Giulio Bonasone, 1550

Hand-colored ornamental botanical design of purple and red fern fronds, green sprigs and berry clusters on a pale ground.

Ornamental Design with Triangular Purple and Red leaves, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usag…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved ornamental plate with winged griffins, an urn, nude figures, scrollwork and a small cityscape medallion at top.

Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)

Luca Bertelli, 1560

Engraved rococo design for a pendulum clock on a panel, with a winged female figure, cherub and scrolling ornament.

Projet d'une grande Pendule placée sur un paneau (Design for a Pendulum Clock Placed on a Panel), plate 97, in Oeuvre…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rinceaux ornament with a putto among acanthus scrolls, rosettes, a ribbon bow, and musical instruments below.

Rinceaux Design with Putto, plate 3, from A New Book of Ornaments Useful to all Artists

Simon Gribelin, 1700

Engraved decorative strip showing an armored warrior with a sword above foliate scrolls and a winged figure below.

Dagger Sheath

Master of the Horse Skulls, 1500

Title page with a heart-shaped garland of colored flowers and ferns framing handwritten French text, by Jean-Baptiste Pilleme

Title page for "Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers de fleurs iéales"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1750

Engraved rococo design of an ornate silver candelabrum with scrolling foliage, with a smaller landscape cartouche panel below

Dousieme livre des oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier/Livre de Chandeliers de Sculpture en Argent

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of a nude male figure with a spear beside a tree in an oval, surrounded by ornate scrollwork and putti.

Paris, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1690

Engraved plate showing two rococo candelabra with tulip-shaped candle cups on branch-like stems wrapped in flowers.

Girandolle à branche de porcelaine garnie d'or (Girandolle with Porcelain Branches Covered in Gold), plate 69, from O…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of Saint Anne holding the Christ Child with the Virgin Mary in an interior with a balustrade, tree, and birds.

St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraved rococo design of a covered tureen with shell body, acanthus scrolls, and foliage finial, numbered 78.

Pot à Oille

Jacques III Roëttiers, 1740

Etched bust portrait of a man with curled hair, mustache, lace collar and draped cloak, with a caption below.

Portrait of Justus Sustermans, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Netherlandish Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Etched ornamental plate with two ram heads, acanthus scrolls, ribbons and hanging fruit garlands, symmetrical grotesque desig

Plate, from Ornamenti o Grottesche (Ornaments or Grotesques)

Stefano Della Bella, 1610

Engraved scene of a crowded city square with stone buildings, a raised platform, and onlookers watching from balconies.

Ecce Homo (copy)

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved plate of an ornate symmetrical pendant design with scrolling foliage, flowers and beads on a light background.

Design for a Pendant, plate XXI, from the series Tabulae Gemmiferae XXIV

Peter Symony, 1620

Circular engraved design with a jester's head at center, surrounded by scrollwork, dragons, a peacock and mythical figures.

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Flemish Theodor de Bry, 1590

Engraved pastoral landscape with an arched bridge over a river, grazing sheep, draped figures, and distant mountains.

Jacob and Laban (Il Ponti)

William Woollett, 1780

Engraved oval panel with a crowned nude figure on an eagle, surrounded by grotesque ornaments, scrollwork and squirrels on bl

Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

Etienne Delaune, 1580

Engraved rococo ornament with two seated figures in chinoiserie dress, one holding a parasol, beneath scrollwork and a foliag

Conversation Chinoise

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etched rococo cartouche design with a tiger on top, a cherub, grapevines, and a waterfall pouring into a basin.

Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Tiger

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Etching of a winged dragon bearing the Virgin and Child on its back, with a banner above and flames from its mouth.

Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno…

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Engraved rococo fountain design with scrolling trelliswork arches, figures, a lion, and a helmet among trees and rays of ligh

Design for Fountain with Trelliswork Arches

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of an ornate rococo altar cross with radiating rays, cherubs and a seated figure on a scrolled pedestal.

Croix d'Autel (Cross of the Altar), plate 79, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meisson…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1690

Engraving of three sailing ships tossed among fantastical sea monsters on rough waves under a dark sky.

Three ships surrounded by monsters

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Hand-colored engraving of an allegorical America: a feathered woman with a bow beside a crocodile, parrot, monkey and tropica

America

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Pope Pius VI (1775-1799)

Francesco Piranesi, 1780

Engraving of three nude women embracing in a landscape, one seen from behind, under a cloudy sky.

The Three Graces

Agostino Carracci, 1600

Proofs for Four Plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter E

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1680

Etching of Perseus flying above a sea monster while figures on a shore raise their arms beside a rocky cliff.

Perseus and Andromeda

Michael Hartwagner, 1740

Engraved design plate of a rococo water ewer with a scrolling handle, floral garland, and pedestal base.

Pot à l'eau

Pierre Germain, 1740

Sepia etching of a seated woman and a winged youth writing on a classical monument beside architectural fragments.

Etching with aquatint: Architecture

Felice Giani, 1790

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a leaping deer, hounds, arched bridge, waterfall, ostrich and fruit.

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Hand-colored engraving of armored warriors in red cloaks beneath a flowering tree, with spears, a striped standard and a hors

The Vow of Jephthah

the Younger Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1720

Etching of a Pan statue on a pedestal in woods, with figures making offerings and playing pipes beside an urn.

The Festival of Pan

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Engraving of the Nativity: kneeling Virgin beside infant Christ in a manger, shepherds with a lamb at left, angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Flemish Nicolaus van Aelst, 1600

Two engraved plates of putti: one playing flute and lyre on a pedestal, the other helmeted beside a pelt and winged cherub.

Suitte des Enfants

Michael Hartwagner, 1770

Hand-coloured ornamental bouquet of pink flowers, green leaves, orange and blue feathers and blue berries on a pale ground.

Ornamental Design with Small Red Flowers and Berries, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage d…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved ceiling design with a radiant central figure, clouds, and putti within ornamental architectural framing.

Projet d'un Plafond de Peinture pour la Chapelle de la Vierge de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for Painted Ceiling for…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a seated painter sketching a nude woman at an easel while a helmeted figure looks on, with Latin verse below.

Alexander the Great Offering Campaspe to Apelles

Johann Martin Weis

Engraved rococo ornament design with scrolling cartouche, seated robed figure, kneeling attendant, urn, and grotesque masks.

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etching of two seated children beneath a gnarled tree with a large hanging fruit and leafy branches.

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Hand-colored engraved plate of ferns, flowers and a banner with French title text, numbered 3 at bottom.

Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres, no. 3

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

Engraved Crucifixion scene with Mary, John, and a kneeling woman at the cross, framed by Passion instruments and angels.

The Crucifixion

Flemish Anthonie Wierix, 1590

Engraved rococo panelling design for a cabinet with a central mirror over a settee, flanked by wall consoles, a candelabra an

Decoration de Lambris pour un Cabinet (Decoration for Panelling for an Office)

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1690

Engraving of men catching snakes with forked sticks in a marsh, with dogs, frogs, trees and ruins in the background.

Hunting snakes

Flemish Cornelis Galle I, 1600

Engraved cartouche showing a seated woman with an incense burner beside a camel, with palm trees and a building in the backgr

L'Asie

Marie Michelle Blondel, 1730