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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraved Harper's Weekly page of Civil War soldiers marching, a mounted officer, and song titles like Dixie.

The Songs of the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etching of a woodland landscape with a resting traveller and dog beside a stream, tall trees framing the scene.

Landscape With Traveller Resting

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Engraved design of an ornamental urn on a pedestal with floral garlands and a cameo medallion.

ornament

John Edwards, 1780

Engraved plans and elevations of London Bridge showing arches, towers and a church tower, with scale bars and text.

Plans for the New London Bridge

Benjamin Cole, 1740

Wood engraving page of Civil War news vignettes: a woman reading a letter, soldiers, sailors, and men grabbing newspapers fro

News from the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of soldiers attacking two bastions at a breach made by mines, with cannon smoke and a city skyline behind.

The Attach of Two Bastions, at Breches Made by Springing Mines, from Twelve of the Most Remarkable Sieges and Battles…

Carington Bowles, 1770

Engraving of Union soldiers in a dense bayonet charge across a smoky field, rifles raised, with a tree and distant troops.

The War for the Union, 1862 - A Bayonet Charge

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of Hercules strangling a lion beside a column, with a castle, tree, shield and bow in the background.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraved elevation of a palace vestibule interior with Corinthian columns, arched niches, a paneled door, and a decorative ca

Decoration of the Vestibule in Palais Bourbon

Pierre L'Assurance, 1710

Etching of Christ carrying the cross with Simon of Cyrene helping, a crowd and a stone tower behind them.

Via crucis - Station V, Simon of Cyrene Helps Him to Carry the Cross

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Etching of the entombment: men lay a shrouded body in a stone tomb while mourners and a kneeling figure watch under tree bran

Via crucis - Station XIV, The Entombment

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraving of a sleeping nude Venus beneath a tree with a winged Cupid resting against her, with a landscape behind.

Sleeping Venus and Cupid

Theodoor Galle, 1590

Etching of a standing woman pouring from a vessel at an altar, with a seated shirtless man and a helmeted soldier beside rock

Standing Woman, Seated Soldier, and a Slave, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraved allegory of Water with putti, sea creatures, fountain, ships and a distant city within ornamental scrollwork.

Aqua, allegory of Water from The Four Elements

Hans Kellerthaler, 1580

Etching of a riverside town with a Gothic monument on the left, an arched bridge, figures on the bank and a dog.

A View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb

Canaletto, 1740

Engraving of a dancing couple on the left and a walking couple with a sword on the right, dated 1546.

July and August

Sebald Beham, 1540

Circular etching of a formal French garden with a long reflecting pool, tree-lined paths, a statue, and a fountain.

French Gardens

Flemish Abraham Genoels, 1680

Engraving of a crowded ancient city with a robed man gesturing, kneeling figures, oxen and a horse near a temple with columns

Unidentified subject

Netherlandish Martin Van Heemskerk, 1550

Engraved design of a rococo alcove bed in a paneled niche with swagged curtains and ornate scrolling carved details.

Lit en niche, from Nouveau desseins de Lambris inventees par le Sr Pineau architecte

Nicolas Pineau, 1720

Etching of a dense forest with large trees, a small waterfall over rocks, a river, and a distant village under cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Waterfall

Bohemian Wenceslaus Hollar, 1640

Engraved landscape of a valley with a village, church spire, and figures on a path, with dedicatory inscription below.

First View of Pyrmont in Waldeck

Peter Mazell, 1780

Engraved title page with rococo frame, flower garlands, drafting tools and text for an architecture treatise, 1766.

Title Page, from "Nouveau Traité des Cinq Ordres d'Architecture"

Charles Dupuis, 1760

Drawing of painters carrying framed canvases along a cobbled street past the Musée Royal, with men in top hats.

Le Dernier Jour de la Reception des Tableaux, from Charivari

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Engraved architectural plate of an ornate paneled double door with a rococo cartouche, putti and a female mask, with a plan b

Plate 2, "Decoration d'une Porte à placards à double ventaux"

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Etching of figures on a grassy hill overlooking a row of flat-roofed city buildings under a pale sky.

Way Uptown

Childe Hassam, 1920

Engraving of a sleeping man in a chair with a nude woman beside him, a winged cupid below, and a bat-winged creature above.

The Dream of the Doctor

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved view of Florence across the Arno river, with boats in the foreground and the cathedral dome and towers on the skylin

View of Florence with the Cathedral, S. Croce, Palazzo Vecchio, Plate 4 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali…

Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli, 1730

Etching of a colonnaded classical building with tall columns, a broad staircase, and small pedestrians and pigeons in the for

The Steps, British Museum

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Wood engraving of men in a Baxter Street club-house: card players, a man smoking on a bed, and a reclining smoker.

The Chinese in New York - Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraved still life of a dense bouquet of carnations, roses and lilies in an ornate urn-shaped vase.

Vase of Flowers

Pieter I. Mortier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1680