New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

6,800 works

Featured

Filters

Color

Shape

Century

Engraving of Columbus on a ship deck with a crucifix banner, surrounded by mermaids, sea monsters and Neptune.

Christopher Columbus

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1600

Engraving of cranes feeding among pit traps in a marsh while hunters hide beneath a tree at right.

Crane Hunt using Cones, plate 28 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved plate of an ornate classical vase with a serpent handle, mask at the shoulder, and figures in relief.

Vase (Plate 12 of a Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

George du Maurier

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Engraving of the beheading of John the Baptist, with an executioner, a woman with a platter, and a banquet scene with musicia

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Israhel van Meckenem

Pen and ink drawing of two women in long gowns walking past halberd-carrying guards in Tudor-style uniforms at court.

Presented at Court

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Pen drawing of a seated woman holding a cornucopia of fruit and flowers, with a decorative banner reading Abundantia Terrae.

Abundantia Terrae

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Engraved plate of an ornate ewer with a twisted neck, scrolled handle and pedestal foot, numbered 243 on the page.

Vase (Plate 3 of Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

Wood engraving of a horse-drawn sleigh with a man and several fashionable women riding through a snowy winter landscape.

Christmas Belles

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved holiday page with holly border, central Nativity medallion, street scenes, and a crowded children's dance beneath a

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of women in Victorian dresses watching a shopkeeper weigh goods on a scale in a cluttered country store.

A Country Store - Getting Weighed

William James Linton, 1870

Engraved Harper's Weekly page of soldiers crowding a sutler's counter on pay day, with vignettes of letters and money sent ho

Pay-Day in the Army of the Potomac

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of men in turbans clubbing and wrestling crocodiles on a riverbank, with willow trees and a Latin caption below.

Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt, plate 30 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodcut of Christ with a spade and Mary Magdalen kneeling before him in a landscape, from Dürer's Little Passion.

Noli me Tangere (Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved dedication page with a fantastical tree framing German text above a distant landscape with towns.

Dedication page, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of nude Venus seated on a cloud beside Cupid drawing a bow, with a scroll inscription above.

Venus and Cupid

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Grayscale illustration of a dark bird pecking at shells and pebbles among grass and leaves, with a handwritten signature belo

The Handle of a China Cup, the Gem of the Collection

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a bridge under a torii gate, with village rooftops and a temple on a wooded hill.

Yugoyoji Temple (Fugisawa), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, arms raised beside a cross, wearing a crown of thorns, with a skull at his feet.

The Man of Sorrows (with Hands Raised)

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraving of two young women in bathing costumes on a beach, with bathers in the surf and a sailboat offshore.

The Bathers

William H. Redding, 1870

Engraved print of an ornate classical vase with a figure climbing its rim, ship reliefs, and acanthus leaves at the base.

Vase (Plate 7 of a Series)

Engraved title page with ornate border, two lions holding a crown above coats of arms, and allegorical figures beside printed

Title page, "Rerum et Urbis Mstelodamensiu Historia..."

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1560

Etching of a bearded man in a feathered headdress and fur-trimmed robe, holding a sword, on a terrace with urns.

Le Grand Seigneur (The Nobleman), plate 17 from the series Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to M…

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1740

Etched ornamental frieze with acanthus scrolls, a crouching lion, flowers, and a lower row of grotesque masks.

Plate from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Engraved plate of seven rococo panel crestings with scrolling shell-like ornament, titled Divers Couronnemens de Panneaux de

Divers Couronnemens de Panneaux de Menuiserie

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Soldiers lie and kneel with rifles among tall trees in a forest, keeping watch as an outlying picket.

The Army of the Potomac - Our Outlying Picket in the Woods

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Roman archers and horsemen attacking a giant coiled serpent in a forest landscape with palm trees.

The Roman Consul Attilius Regulus Fighting a Giant African Serpent, plate 25 in the Venationes Ferarum series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved rococo cartouche with scrolls, a hunting spear, a hare, a dog head and oak leaves on a rocky base.

Design for Cartouche Evoking the Chase

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved plate of four rococo girandole wall sconce designs with scrollwork, foliage and chinoiserie pagoda motifs.

Gerandoles

Thomas Chippendale, 1750

Engraved floor plan of a first-floor country house layout with labeled salon, bedchambers, cabinets, and central staircase.

Plan du premier Etage, d'une Maison de Campagne

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of ornamental locksmith design with scrolling foliage, a winged bird, fruit clusters and a keyhole motif.

Plate 8, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Etched ornamental design plate with scrolling foliage, lion masks and fruit clusters, numbered 116.

Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of Twelve Designs for Engraved Vessels)

Bernhard Zan, 1580

Engraving of a haloed woman walking through woods with drummers, a piper, and onlookers beside a rocky hill.

The Dance of St. Mary Magdalene

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved rococo cartouche with dogs, a boar, grapevines and a waterfall between scrolled ornamental frames.

Design for a Cartouche Evoking the Season of Autumn and The Chase

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved plate with four bands of architectural friezes showing sea gods, a griffin, acanthus scrolls, masks, and marine moti

Plate from Frises pour les architraves, cornices, et autres ornements d'architecture (Friezes Intended for Ornamentin…

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Hand-coloured title page with a scrolled French cartouche surrounded by green ferns, red and blue flowers, and a small garden

Title page, plate 1 from "Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers chinois"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1750

Engraved octagonal ornament with scrolling acanthus leaves, flowers, and grotesque creature heads by Wendel Dietterlin the Yo

Plate 6, from Die Folge der phantastischen Schmucksträße (Suite of Fantastic Ornamental Bouquets)

Wendel Dietterlin the Younger, 1610

Etching of robed figures and draped women beside a tall column, with a domed rotunda in the distance under radiating light.

Scene Inspired by Antiquity

Christian Winck, 1700

Engraved rococo cartouche frame with shells, seaweed, and a trident evoking water, on a cream page.

Design for Cartouche Evoking Aquatic Elements

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved rococo cartouche with a pastoral scene of a shepherd, seated figures, a cow and a tower, with French title lettering

Cartouche with Central Vignette

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraving of a thorn-crowned figure presented to soldiers and bearded onlookers before tall columns, with a halberd raised at

The large "Ecce Homo"

Vespasiano Strada, 1610

Hand-coloured ornamental design of a blue-sailed ship beside a willow, flowers and rocks, with a figure and dog in the boat.

Ornamental Design from "Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres" No.3, Inventes…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Etching of a child's head with curls over a stag skull, flanked by two dogs, crossed spears and ribbons in ornamental framing

Ornamenti o Grottesche (Grotesque Ornament)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Red chalk style plate of tree branches with leaves and flower sprigs, numbered 1 and 2, with French instructional caption bel

Plate 2 from Livre Ier, Principes du dessin dans le genre du Paysage

Flemish Gilles Demarteau, 1770

Engraved rococo ornament design with scrolling cartouche, flower garland, urn and clouds above low foliage.

Ornament Design

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Symmetrical engraved grotesque with a central urn, dolphins, winged lions, putti and acanthus scrolls.

Grotesque with Dolphins and Winged Lions

Master of the Die, 1530

Etching of a costumed procession with drummers, flute players, and pike bearers in plumed hats, by Jacques Callot.

Entrée de Monsieur de Macey (Entrance of the Monsieur de Macey), from Le Combat à la Barrière (Combat at the Barrier)

Jacques Callot, 1620

Engraved plate of three ornate wrought iron balcony railing designs with scrolls and foliage, with a feet scale bar.

Nouveaux Desseins de Balcons

Pierre-Edmé Babel

Engraved architectural section of a theatre showing tiered boxes, a proscenium with columns, and a balcony, in green-gray ink

Section of the House and Proscenium

Saverio Avesani, 1710

Engraved rococo garden ornament design with scrolling forms, a reclining figure with a sun medallion, and trees behind.

Fantastical Garden Ornament Design

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Portrait of Joseph Zola (1739-1806)

Faustino Anderloni, 1800

Engraved design of a symmetrical wrought iron railing panel with scrolls, fleur-de-lis finials and acanthus leaves.

Panel of a Wrought Iron Railing

Pierre Guillebaud, 1610

Engraved plate of a rococo table centerpiece with candlesticks above a bowl with scrolled feet and putti, from Meissonnier's

Neuvième Livre des Oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier, Surtout de Table/Cuvette de Roy [Ninth Series of Designs from the wor…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Etching of two figures in Asian robes playing a gong, bells, and stringed instruments among plants.

L'Ouye (Hearing) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Engraving of a plumed helmeted leader and a seated bearded man at a pedestal with an open book, surrounded by soldiers and cr

Alexander and the Book of Homer

Etienne Delaune, 1560

Elevation and Plan of a Carriage Entrance

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved frieze of hunters on horseback and foot attacking lions, an elephant, hounds and winged creatures beneath a tree.

Wild Animal Hunt (frieze)

Etienne Delaune, 1570

Engraved plate of a decorated parade chamber with canopied bed, tapestries, columns and lettered architectural key below.

Decoration d'une chamber de parade vüe du côté du Lit, plate 82 in De La Distribution des Maisons de Plaisance, et de…

Jacques-François Blondel, 1730

Engraved rococo ornament plate with a crested bird, kneeling figures, scrollwork cartouches and an umbrella-holding figure.

Ornament Design with Figures and Birds

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etching of two robed men at a temple gate, with a kneeling beggar at their feet and a crowd on steps beyond.

Peter and John at the Gate of the Temple

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1620

Etched rococo design page with scrolling ornamental borders, a small cartouche, and two landscape vignettes with trees.

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved ornamental cartouche surrounded by flames, dragons and tools, with an empty central panel on a cream page.

Cartouche Decorated with Elements of Fire

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved elevation of ornate iron gates with a central fountain of a sea god and rococo crowned cartouche, Place Royale Nancy

Dessein des grandes Grilles posées sur la Place Royale de Nancy en 1755 par ordre de S.M. le Roy de Pologne

Jean Lamour, 1760

Engraved ornamental plate with scrollwork, acanthus leaves, winged female figures and a cherub, on a page of an album.

Plate 6, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660