title: Band

date: 16th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, continuous braid-like

subjects: Lace Italy


title: Hyacinths, Plate 31 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

creator: Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

medium: Chromolithograph on paper

country: Netherlands

subjects: Botany Print Netherland

source: Smithsonian Open Access

source_id: smithsonian

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) via Smithsonian Open Access.

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Border

date: early 18th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of I. Townsend Burden, Jr.


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: porcelain (possibly bone china), vitreous enamel

country: England

subjects:
Ceramic
England
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Medium: silk Technique: plain compound satin

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
China

credit_line: Gift of Walter Hochstradter


title: Sketchbook Page

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

country: USA

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Frieze

medium: Machine-printed paper

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Snuff bottle and stopper

date: 18th century

medium: quartz, coral, metal, enamel

subjects:
Container
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Hermanos


title: Head of an Elderly Bearded Man

medium: Black chalk on blue-grey paper

country: Italy

subjects: Figure Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Border

date: mid-18th century

medium: Technique: bobbin lace


title: Study of a Hinge from Orvieto Cathedral

creator: Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

medium: Graphite on beige paper

subjects: Architecture Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner


title: Sidewall

medium: Machine-printed

credit_line: Gift of Deerfield Academy


title: Watch and chatelaine

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, enamel, glass, steel

country: Paris, France

subjects:
Timepiece & measuring device
Paris, france

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor


title: Sampler

creator: Anna Morrison

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: cross, rice, queen and eyelet embroidery stitches on plain weave foundation

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Chocolate Pot with Floral Sprays

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, German, established by 1753

date: mid- 18th century

medium: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

country: Germany

subjects: Ceramic Germany Flowers

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Erskine Hewitt


title: Side chair

date: mid-19th century

medium: Papier-mâché, mother of pearl, caning, wood

subjects: Furniture England

credit_line: Gift of Jennifer C. Kruger and Lucy C. Stark


title: Bird Motif

creator: Huntley, Boorne, & Stevens

medium: Plated tin, printed , gilded

subjects: Container England Birds

credit_line: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener


title: St. Sebaldus

creator: Hans Springinklee, German, 1490 - 1540

medium: Woodcut and black ink on paper

subjects: Figure Germany

credit_line: Gift of Leo Wallerstein


title: Jardin d'Hiver

creator: Jules Desfossé, French, active 1851 - 1863

medium: Block-printed paper

subjects:
Wallcovering
Paris, france

credit_line: Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund


title: Cutwork border

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: embroidered with cutwork and needle lace fillings on plain weave

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Italy


title: Sidewall

medium: Block-printed on satin ground

country: France

subjects: Wallcovering France

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Howell


title: Hinggi (ceremonial men's wrapper)

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: tied resist patterning in warp (ikat) on plain weave

country: Sumba, Indonesia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
Sumba, indonesia

credit_line: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe


title: Africa

creator: Martin Engelbrecht, German, 1684–1756

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects: Print Germany

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Anonymous Donor


title: No. 4

creator: Gebrüder Thonet, Austrian, founded 1853

medium: Bent beechwood, woven caning

country: Vienna, Austria

subjects:
Furniture
Vienna, austria

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of American Institute of Interior Designers


title: Waistcoat front

medium: Technique: Embroidery using satin, stem and knot stitches in twelve colors of floss silk and metal-wrapped silk; coils of metal wire, sequins (paillettes) and paste jewels sewn on silk plain weave foundation. Trimmed with four color woven silk fringe.

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
France

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Down Grade Into The Valley

creator: William Henry Sheldon, American, 1840 - 1932

medium: Brush and gouache on illustration board

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Gift of Willis M. Rose


title: Purse

medium: Medium: leather Technique: stamped

country: New York, USA

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
New york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor in memory of Serbella Moores


title: The White House, Washington, D.C.

medium: Plated metal, printed celluloid

subjects: Container Usa


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: linen, silk Technique: embroidered, bobbin lace


title: Sidewall

medium: Block-printed paper, embossed

country: Japan

subjects: Wallcovering Japan

credit_line: Gift of Arlene M. and Thomas C. Ellis


title: Walking Dress

creator: Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834

medium: Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper

country: London, England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print
London, england

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Design for a Church Façade

creator: Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and grey and yellow wash on cream paper

country: Bologna, Italy

subjects:
Architecture
Bologna, italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Textile

medium: Medium: silk Technique: damask weave

country: England or France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
England or france

credit_line: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf


title: Fragment

medium: Silk damask Technique: damask, 5 unit satin

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs


title: Textile

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Holdsworth, Jr.


title: Half Dress


title: Red-breasted Sunbird, Plate 14 from Birds of Western Africa

creator: William Home Lizars, Scottish, 1788 - 1859

country: Edinburgh, Scotland

subjects:
Print
Edinburgh, scotland
Birds


title: Tassel

date: 17th century

medium: Medium: linen, metal wire, silk. Technique: braided and knotted

country: Italy, Europe

subjects:
Trimming
Italy, europe


title: Textile

credit_line: Museum purchase from Textile Department Fund


title: Figure of a Chinese Man or Servant Holding a Cup and Saucer

creator: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

medium: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

subjects: Ceramic Germany

credit_line: Gift of Michele Beiny in memory of her grandfather, Hanns Weinberg


title: Tilly's Vigil

creator: Max Schwindt

medium: Steel engraving on paper

country: Europe

subjects: Print Europe


title: Design for a Plate

creator: Noritake, Japan and New York, New York, USA

medium: Brush and gold gouache, green watercolor, graphite on cream paper

subjects:
Tableware design
Japan


title: Frieze

creator: Hobbs, Benton & Heath, Hoboken, New Jersey

medium: Machine-printed paper, textured, liquid mica

country: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Hoboken, new jersey, usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Peep-Show Picture, View of the Castel de St. Angelo and St. Peter's, Rome

medium: Lithograph with brush and watercolor on paper, pricked

country: Augsberg, Germany

subjects:
Peep-show print
Augsberg, germany


title: Four Nude Women (The Four Witches)

creator: Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

medium: Engraving on laid paper

subjects: Figure Germany

credit_line: Gift of Leo Wallerstein


title: Printing block

medium: Medium: wood

subjects:
Appliance & tool
Japan

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor G. Hewitt


title: Carter Dome from Carter Lake, New Hampshire

creator: William Louis Sonntag, American, 1822 – 1900

medium: Brush and watercolor, ink, gouache, graphite on wove paper

country: USA

subjects: Landscape Usa

credit_line: Gift of William H. Matthews from the Estate of Frederick A. Moore


title: Sketchbook Page: Man Standing

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on blue-grey laid paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Paris, france

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Ginger Jar

medium: porcelain, vitreous enamel

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs in memory of Mr. Howard J. Sachs


title: Doily

medium: Medium: linen, silk Technique: plain weave embroidered in stem, running, satin, knot, detached chain, looping and speckling stitches

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Usa


title: Sketchbook Page

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa


title: Coca bag

date: possibly 1200

medium: Medium: wool Technique: warp-faced plain weave

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Peru

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor in memory of Alexander M. Bing


title: Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman

creator: Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

medium: Black crayon, white chalk, on gray paper

subjects: Portrait Usa

credit_line: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters


title: Saint Peter and Saint Paul

creator: Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

country: Germany


title: Ceiling paper

medium: Machine-printed paper

subjects: Wallcovering Usa


title: Dormer on Maison des Quatrans, Caen

creator: Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

medium: Graphite and white heightening on light brown paper

subjects: Architecture Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner


title: Sidewall

creator: Allen-Higgins Co.

medium: Machine-printed

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith


title: Design for Berlin Wool Work, Spitz

creator: P. Trübe, Berlin, Germany

medium: Brush and gouache over etching on blue-gray wove paper

country: Berlin, Germany

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile design
Berlin, germany

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Louis T. Merriam


title: Carpet fragment

medium: Medium: wool on linen and cotton Technique: warp pile on plain weave foundation

country: Wilton, England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Wilton, england

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Kenway from the estate of Sarah B. Russell


title: Border

credit_line: Gift of C.E. Shade


title: Border

medium: Block-printed

country: USA or England

subjects:
Wallcovering
Usa or england

credit_line: Gift of Old Woodbury Historical Society


title: Wall pocket

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Medium: silk, metal Technique: embroidered

country: Italy

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Italy

credit_line: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Jug

creator: William Watts Taylor, American, 1847-1913

medium: earthenware

country: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

subjects:
Ceramic
Cincinnati, ohio, usa

credit_line: Gift of Marcia and William Goodman


title: The College des Quatres Nations, Plate 56 from "Vues Pittoresques des Princepaux Édifices de Paris"

creator: Les Campion Frères, Paris, France

medium: Engraving and brush and watercolors on paper

subjects: Print Europe

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Hyacinths, Solfatare and Mimosa, Plate 7 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"

creator: Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915

medium: Chromolithograph on paper

country: Belgium

subjects: Botany Print Belgium


title: Ceiling paper

creator: Janeway & Co. Inc., New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1848 - 1914

medium: Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

country: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
New brunswick, new jersey, usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Architectural Details in Venice

medium: Graphite on brown paper


title: A Black Girl

creator: Samuel Ireland, English, ca. 1744–1800

medium: Etching and aquatint on paper

country: England

subjects: Print England

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler


title: Frieze

subjects:
Wallcovering
Hoboken, new jersey, usa


title: Study of landscape

creator: William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900

medium: Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper

subjects: Landscape Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roger H. Plowden


title: Sierras

creator: The Schmitz-Horning Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1905 - 1960

country: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Cleveland, ohio, usa

credit_line: Gift of Wallpaper Council, Inc.


title: Ceiling paper

creator: Robert Graves Co., New York, New York

country: New York, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
New york, new york, usa


title: Pleated fan and case

medium: Silk leaf gilded and painted with gouache, embroidered with sequins, carved, pierced and painted mother-of-pearl sticks

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
France

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor


title: Mouchoire d'Instruction Militaire No. 10

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave Label: cotton printed by engraved roller

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
France

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Braguin


title: Vase

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Delft, Netherlands

subjects:
Ceramic
Delft, netherland

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren


title: Two Long Tined Fork with Brass Panel Decoration

medium: steel, brass

subjects: Cutlery Germany

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Design for a small library: front elevation, section, plan

creator: Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953

medium: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, gray wash on paper

subjects: Architecture Usa

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Christian Francis Rosborg


title: Drop Front Desk

creator: Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882

medium: Oak, nickel-plated metal (probably bronze)

subjects:
Furniture
New york, new york, usa

credit_line: Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and Walter Scholz Memorial Funds


title: Band

medium: Medium: Technique: complementary warps

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Peru

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Agnes M. O'Donnell


title: Sidewall

creator: York Card & Paper Co., 1891

country: York, Pennsylvania, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
York, pennsylvania, usa


title: Ornament Design with Krater and Cameos

creator: Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

medium: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, over graphite on laid paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Unknown Donor


title: Textile

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave

country: Greece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Embroidery & stitching
Greece

credit_line: Gift of the Museum of the Cranbrook Academy of Art


title: Chair seat cover

date: early 19th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: woven

country: USA

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Usa

credit_line: Gift of Ginsburg and Levy


title: Demitasse Spoon with Red Beetle

creator: Charles Victor Gibert, French

medium: silver

country: Paris, France

subjects:
Cutlery
Beetles
Paris, france

credit_line: Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds


title: Knife from Traveling Cutlery Set

medium: silver, steel

country: Netherlands

subjects: Cutlery Netherland


title: Locket

medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds

country: Vienna, Austria

subjects:
Jewelry
Vienna, austria

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Anne Mininberg in memory of Mildred Mininberg


title: Sampler

medium: Medium: silk, cotton on cottom Technique: embroidered on plain weave

country: Morocco

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Morocco

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Sketchbook Page: Bird of Prey

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa
Birds

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Frieze

creator: American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association, 1879–1887

medium: Machine-printed paper

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Philanthropic Society, from "Ackermann's Repository"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756–1827

medium: Aquatint, brush and watercolor on paper

country: Europe

subjects: Print Europe

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Palepai (ship cloth)

medium: Medium: cotton embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave Label: cotton embroidered with cotton

country: Indonesia

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Indonesia
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe


title: Sketchbook Page

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa


title: Escutcheon

creator: A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852

medium: Brass

subjects: Metalwork England

credit_line: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment


title: Scenic Panel from 'L'Hindoustan'

creator: Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

medium: block printed paper, canvas mount

country: Rixheim, France

subjects:
Wallcovering
Rixheim, france

credit_line: Gift of A.L. Diament and Company


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
Europe

credit_line: Gift of Harold M. Bailey


title: Border

medium: Technique: bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of I. Townsend Burden, Jr.


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: wool Technique: single interlock 1:1, with subtle use of non-horizontal weft double faced

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Peru

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Erskine Hewitt


title: Beach Scene with Rocks and Distant Cliffs

creator: William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

medium: Pen and black ink on off-white wove paper

subjects: Seascape Usa

credit_line: Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest


title: Frieze

creator: Liberty Wall Paper Company, Schuylerville, New York

country: Schuylerville, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Schuylerville, new york, usa


title: Demitasse Spoon with a Squirrel

subjects:
Cutlery
Paris, france


title: Map sampler

creator: Eliza Thompson, English

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, running, and couching stitches on plain weave foundation

country: England

subjects:
Maps & charts
Embroidery & stitching
England

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer


title: Personification of Africa

creator: Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757

date: before 1720

medium: Pastel on paper mounted on canvas

country: Italy

subjects: Portrait Italy

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde


title: Skirt

date: late 19th century

medium: Medium: raffia Technique: plain weave, pieced and sewn, with twisted warp fringes Label: woven raffia, pieced and sewn, with twisted warp fringes

country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Democratic republic of the congo

credit_line: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund


title: Band fragment

date: early 17th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: punto in aria needle lace

subjects: Lace Italy


title: Border

creator: Becker, Smith & Page, Inc., founded 1899

medium: Machine-printed

country: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa

credit_line: Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art


title: Fork with Blue and Pink Foral Enamel Handle

medium: steel, enamel, brass

country: possibly Germany

subjects:
Cutlery
Possibly germany

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Winter-Quarters in Camp – The Inside of a Hut

creator: Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

date: January 24, 1863

medium: Wood engraving in black ink on paper

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt


title: St. Nicholas of Bari from colonnade of St. Peter's

creator: Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

medium: Red chalk on paper

country: France

subjects: Figure France

credit_line: Gift of Noah Butkin


title: Sample book

creator: Henry Bosch Company

medium: Machine-printed paper, embossed

country: Chicago, Illinois, USA

subjects:
Sample book
Chicago, illinois, usa

credit_line: Gift of Marco Polo Stufano


title: Act 5, Scene 1, for Il Pomo d'Oro

creator: Ludovico Ottavio Burnacini, Italian, 1636–1707

medium: Engraving in black ink on paper

subjects: Theater Italy

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. William G. Fitch


title: Unfinished Study of Sky (recto); Rough Study of Beach, Ocean and Sky (verso)

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: USA


title: Ceiling paper

medium: Machine-printed paper

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Fragment

medium: Medium; silk Technique: damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Italy


title: Ocean with Large Rock and Cliffs at Right

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper, bound


title: Purse

medium: Medium: silk, metal Technique: woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
France

credit_line: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf


title: Border

medium: Block-printed on handmade paper

subjects: Wallcovering France

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Howell


title: Border

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: grid of laid cords with needle lace (reticella style); edge of punto in aria

credit_line: Gift of Frances Morris


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: plain weave foundation. block-printed: a resist medium. Dyed blue.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
France


title: Ceiling paper

creator: Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

medium: Machine-printed paper, liquid mica


title: Sidewall

date: 18th–early 19th century

medium: Wallcoverings

credit_line: Gift of Harrison Cultra


title: Textile

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile

credit_line: Gift of Harold M. Bailey


title: Cruet

medium: glass

country: Ireland

subjects: Glassware Ireland

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren


title: Tall Cliffs and Storm-Churned Sea

medium: Graphite on textured cream-colored paper, mounted

subjects: Seascape Usa

credit_line: Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest


title: Cap streamers

medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style

country: Belgium

subjects: Lace Belgium

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor


title: View of Powes Castle

creator: Universal Magazine

medium: Engraving on paper

country: London, England

subjects:
Print
London, england


title: Spoon with Carved Figural Coral Handle

medium: coral, silver plated, gold

country: Nuremberg, Germany

subjects:
Cutlery
Nuremberg, germany
Corals & anemones


title: Border

medium: Block-printed

subjects: Wallcovering England

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith


title: Adoration of the Magi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash and white gouache on paper

subjects: Figure Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: The Sluice-Gate, Cottage Near Mud Flats, in the Evening

creator: Antoni Waterloo, 1618–1677

medium: Etching on white laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects: Landscape Netherland

credit_line: Gift of Milton Einstein


title: Sketchbook Page: Landscape

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa
Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Machines de Théatres (Theatrical Machinery), pl. XV, vol. 10 from Encyclopédie, ou, arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts)

creator: Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784

subjects: Theater France

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Freund


title: Trimming

medium: Medium: silk, linen Technique: velvet

country: France or Italy

subjects:
Trimming
France or italy

credit_line: Gift of Harold Norton of the Hayden Company


title: Maiden Chased by a Satyr

creator: William Hunt Diederich, American, b. Hungary, 1884–1953

medium: Graphite on tracing paper

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Gift of Diana Diederich Blake


title: Chocolat Menier

creator: Whitehead & Hoag Company

medium: Plated metal, printed celluloid

country: Newark, New Jersey, USA

subjects:
Container
Newark, new jersey, usa

credit_line: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener


title: Textile

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
England

credit_line: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment


title: Box for a miser's purse

medium: Medium: cardboard, paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum


title: goblet


title: Sketchbook Page: Caricature

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa


title: Hem Marker

creator: William B. Kerr & Company, Newark, New Jersey, 1855 - 1927

medium: silver

subjects:
Metalwork
Newark, new jersey, usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Earle F. Hiscock


title: Entrance to the Place Dauphine by the Pont Neuf, Plate 74 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris"

creator: Les Campion Frères, Paris, France

medium: Engraving and brush and watercolors on paper

country: Europe

subjects: Print Europe

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Frieze

medium: Block-printed on handmade paper

subjects: Wallcovering France

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Howell, Inc.


title: Fork with Ornately Engraved Handle

country: Netherlands or Flanders

subjects:
Cutlery
Netherland or flander

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Knife with Triangular Pattern Ivory and Bone Handle

creator: London Cutler's Company

medium: steel, silver, gold, ivory, bone

subjects:
Ornament & design
Cutlery
London, england
Skeletons & bones


title: Frieze

creator: Imperial Wallcoverings Inc., American, founded 1901

medium: Machine-printed paper, mica flakes

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Trophee médallique et impérial (Medal and Imperial Trophy)

creator: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

medium: Engraving Support: off-white paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ornament
France


title: Fashion Plate from "Le Moniteur de la Mode"

creator: E. Gailland, French, active 19th c.

medium: Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper

country: Paris, France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print
Paris, france


title: Sampler

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, running, long-armed cross, and back stitches, with withdrawn element work with needle made fillings and aztec stitches on plain weave foundation

country: Mexico

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Mexico

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer


title: Sampler

date: probably late 19th century

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in double running, stem, cross, satin, and long armed cross stitches on plain weave foundation

country: Morocco

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Morocco


title: Frieze

medium: Machine-printed paper, ungrounded


title: Sidewall

credit_line: Gift of Katzenbach and Warren Inc.


title: King of Hearts

creator: E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

medium: Lithograph on paper

subjects:
Toys & game
Paris, france
Amusement

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Dexter J. Purinton


title: Three of Diamonds from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards

creator: B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France

medium: Lithograph on glazed paper

subjects:
Playing card
Paris, france


title: Sidewall - sample

medium: Machine-printed

credit_line: Gift of Dorwin L. Starr


title: Miser's purse

medium: Medium: silk, metal Technique: crocheted


title: Door and Over Door, Blue (South) Drawing Room

creator: Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on white wove paper, silhouetted

country: England

subjects: Architecture England

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane


title: Sampler

creator: Caroline Piovan, Italian

medium: Medium: silk, mercerized cotton and wool embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, eyelet and four sided cross stitches on plain weave foundation

country: Italy

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Italy


title: The Lamentation, from The Little Passion Series

creator: Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

medium: Woodcut on off-white laid paper

country: Germany

subjects: Figure Germany

credit_line: Gift of Leo Wallerstein


title: Sampler

creator: Francisca Herrera Piebla

medium: Medium: cotton embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in withdrawn element work on plain weave foundation

country: Hidalgo, Mexico

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Hidalgo, mexico


title: Copy of Hogarth's Shop Card

creator: Samuel Ireland, English, ca. 1744–1800

medium: Etching on paper

subjects: Print England

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler


title: Bishops Nicholas, Ulric, Erasmus

medium: Woodcut and black ink on paper


title: "Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

medium: soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel

subjects: Botany Ceramic England

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer


title: Sketchbook Page: Sketch of Figure in Hose

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

country: USA

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

creator: A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c.

medium: Hand-colored engraving on paper


title: Orphrey

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Medium: linen, silk, metallic thread Technique: woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Italy

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Design for a Ceiling: A Bishop Saint in Glory

medium: Black chalk on paper

subjects: Religion Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Sidewall

medium: Composition paper, embossed in relief

country: Japan

subjects: Wallcovering Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Grant


title: Fashion Plate no. 353 from L'Iris, Moniteur des Modes

creator: Imprimerie Mariton, French, active mid-19th c.


title: Bonad

medium: Hand painted on canvas

country: Sweden

subjects: Wallcovering Sweden

credit_line: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf


title: The actor Yae Misazo

creator: Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese, 1786 – 1864

medium: Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color

subjects: Theater Japan


title: Textile

medium: Medium: wool Technique: block printed on 4&1 satin

country: probably France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Probably france

credit_line: Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund


title: Sidewall

creator: W.H. Mairs & Co., 1855

medium: Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

country: Brooklyn, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Brooklyn, new york, usa


title: Plate 8, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

creator: Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

medium: Engraving on paper

country: France

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
France

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt


title: Study of Ocean, Waves, and Clouds

creator: William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

date: after 1878

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper

subjects: Seascape Usa

credit_line: Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest


title: Designs for embroidery

medium: Black crayon on tracing paper

subjects: Drawing France


title: Decanter and stopper

medium: glass

country: Ireland

subjects: Glassware Ireland

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren


title: Woman's robe (munisak)

medium: Medium: silk Technique: plain weave with tied resist patterning in warp (ikat) Label: silk warp ikat

country: Afghanistan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
Afghanistan

credit_line: Gift of Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.


title: Flip glass

date: mid-18th century

medium: Glass

country: Netherlands

subjects: Glassware Netherland

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor


title: Sampler

creator: Elizabeth Jane Alden, American

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, and stem stitches on plain weave foundation

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer


title: Hillside with Trees, Water and Distant Mountains

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper, bound

subjects: Landscape Usa Trees


title: Sidewall and border

creator: American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association, 1879–1887

medium: Machine printed on paper, embossed ground

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Antiquarian and Landmarks Society Inc. of Connecticutt


title: Drawing

medium: Brush and gouache, graphite on cream paper, mounted on cream paper

country: France and USA

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile design
France and usa

credit_line: Gift of Friends of Drawings and Prints with special assistance from Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Phyllis Dearborn Massar


title: Sidewall

medium: Block-printed, stenciled, handmade paper

subjects: Wallcovering England

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith


title: Nawate Highway (Hiratsuka), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

creator: Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

medium: Woodblock print in colored ink on paper

subjects: Landscape Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mary Rutherford Jay


title: Canal Scene Near Bruges, Belgium

creator: William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900

medium: Point of brush, gray, blue-gray, and black washes, white gouache, graphite, possibly charcoal on blue-gray wove paper, laid down on illustration board.

country: near Bruges, Belgium

subjects:
Landscape
Near bruges, belgium

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Helen Haseltine Plowden


title: Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards

creator: Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

medium: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, over graphite on laid paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Unknown Donor


title: Frieze

creator: Robert S. Hobbs & Co., Brooklyn, New York

medium: Machine-printed paper

country: Chicago, illinois, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Chicago, illinois, usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Perspectiva: Corporum Regularium

creator: Wenzel Jamnitzer, German, 1508–1585

medium: Engraving on laid paper

country: Switzerland

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ornament
Switzerland

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop


title: Textile

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
England

credit_line: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment


title: Fragments

medium: Medium: silk Technique: cut voided supplementary warp pile in a five-harness satin foundation (velvet)

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Italy


title: Book Endpaper Design: Two Paisley Bands

creator: Remondini, Varese, Italy

date: 19th century

medium: Woodcut on cream laid paper

subjects:
Decorated paper
Italy

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. J.G.K. Duer


title: Border

date: early 18th century

medium: Technique: bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of I. Townsend Burden, Jr.


title: Drawing

creator: Louis-Albert DuBois, Swiss, 1752–1818

medium: Gouache and graphite on pale blue laid paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile design
France

credit_line: Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund


title: Madison Square, New York, in the Evening

creator: Charles Graham, American, 1852–1911

medium: Wood engraving on paper

subjects: Print Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler


title: Sketchbook Page

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Ruins at Cannouge, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

creator: Thomas Daniell, British, 1749 - 1840

medium: Colored aquatint on paper

country: London, England

subjects:
Print
London, england
Landscapes


title: Portrait of Aunt Alicia McNeill

creator: James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper

subjects: Portrait Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mary E. Dreier from the estate of Katherine S. Dreier


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: 5-harness satin patterned by weft floats and floats of discontinuous supplementary wefts bound on the front by a supplementary warp in 1/3 twill

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
France

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Sidewall

medium: Block-printed on handmade paper


title: Border

subjects: Wallcovering Usa


title: Panel

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in chain, cretan, and buttonhole stitches on plain weave Label: Silk embroidery on cotton foundation

country: India

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
India

credit_line: Gift of Provident Securities Company from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Crocker


title: To My Valentine

medium: Chromolithograph

country: Europe and USA

subjects:
Graphic design
Europe and usa
Graphic arts

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Jacob H. Schiff


title: Frieze

creator: Imperial Wallcoverings Inc., American, founded 1901

country: Sandy Hill, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Sandy hill, new york, usa


title: Moon Face

creator: George W. Shiebler & Co., American, 1876 - 1910

medium: Silver

subjects:
Container
Brooklyn, new york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener


title: Sugar Bowl

medium: silver, gold

country: Paris, France

subjects:
Metalwork
Paris, france

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Ross


title: Design for a Jar

creator: Noritake, Japan and New York, New York, USA

medium: Brush and watercolor, black, gold gouache on cream paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Tableware design
Japan


title: Une Moria a Bodiquier (Italie)

creator: Adolphe Appian, French, 1818 - 1898

medium: Etching in dark brown ink on cream-colored Japan paper

subjects: Print France

credit_line: Gift of Edmond C. Bonaventure


title: Sketch of a Girl with a Frog

creator: Louise Howland King Cox, American, 1865–1945

medium: Graphite on light brown laid paper

country: USA

subjects:
Figure
Usa
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Allyn Cox


title: Decorative panel

creator: Jules Desfossé, French, active 1851 - 1863

medium: Block-printed paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Wallcovering
Paris, france

credit_line: Gift of Alan Moss


title: Frieze

creator: Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

medium: Machine-printed paper

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Architectural Details, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Senlis

creator: Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

subjects: Architecture Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner


title: Textile

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: roller printed in five colors on plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
England

credit_line: Museum purchase from Friends of Textiles Fund


title: Sketch of Floor Plan Facing a Lake, for Stage Set

creator: Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972

medium: Graphite, red crayon on paper

credit_line: Gift of University of California, Los Angeles


title: pointing left hand, wrist, forearm to beginning of sleeve

creator: Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

medium: black crayon, white chalk on buff paper

subjects: Drawing Usa

credit_line: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters


title: Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, King of Spades from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards

creator: B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France

medium: Lithograph on glazed paper

subjects:
Playing card
Paris, france

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Ornament Design, Arabesque Panel between Roman Crowns

creator: Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

medium: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, over graphite on laid paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Unknown Donor


title: Trophy with Flute, Ivy and Blue Ribbon

creator: Antoine Berjon, 1754 – 1843

medium: Pastel, black chalk, watercolor Support: white laid paper, glued to mount of ruled borders

country: Lyon, France

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ornament
Lyon, france

credit_line: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf


title: Waistcoat

medium: Medium: silk, polychrome plate-printed silk, plain weave tape, silk and metallic twill tape, sequins, on silk Technique: embroidered in satin, stem and knot stitches, appliquéd satin weave medallions, long floating stitches of metal- wrapped silk, on plain weave

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
France


title: Bald Porcupine Island

medium: Graphite and white heightening on brown paper

subjects: Seascape Usa


title: Bag

medium: Medium: cotton, glass beads Technique: beaded knitting

credit_line: Gift of the estate of Mrs Lathrop Colgate Harper


title: Floral design for printed textiles

creator: Louis-Albert DuBois, Swiss, 1752–1818

medium: Brush and gouache, graphite on white wove paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile design
France
Flowers

credit_line: Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund


title: Sampler

date: mid-17th century

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in buttonhole, eyelet, herringbone, chain, running, double running, fern, cross and detached looping stitches on plain weave foundation

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
England
Ferns

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer


title: Ceiling paper

medium: Machine-printed

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Sylvia Goodrich in memory of her grandparents, Orlando R. and Elizabeth Boyd Ballou


title: Souvenir picture

medium: Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Boris Kroll


title: Advertisement for "Green's Lawn Mowers"

creator: Whitehead & Hoag Company

medium: Plated metal, printed celluloid

country: Newark, New Jersey, USA

subjects:
Container
Newark, new jersey, usa

credit_line: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: linen, wool Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (slit tapestry), with eccentric wefts and wrapping. In weft-faced plain weave fabric.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile

credit_line: Gift of Clara Waldeck


title: Nude Study of Seated Man

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Charcoal and graphite on cream paper

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Gift of Allyn Cox


title: Scarf pin

medium: Gold, silver, diamonds, enamel

subjects:
Jewelry
Paris, france

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: silk Technique: plain compound satin with brocade

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
China

credit_line: Gift of Walter Hochstradter


title: Assyrian Head Pattern Fish Server

creator: Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

medium: silver plated, metal

country: Meriden, Connecticut, USA

subjects:
Fish
Ornament & design
Cutlery
Meriden, connecticut, usa

credit_line: Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund


title: Pitcher

creator: Henry Baggeley

medium: porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

subjects: Ceramic England


title: Textile

date: 16th century

medium: Medium: silk Technique: gauze weave

credit_line: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund


title: Martyrdom of a Female Saint

medium: Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and reddish-brown wash on cream paper

subjects: Figure Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Darning sampler

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in running, cross, eyelet, and chain stitches on plain weave foundation

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Netherland


title: Plate

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

medium: Glazed porcelain

country: Saint Petersburg, Russia

subjects:
Ceramic
Saint petersburg, russia

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson


title: None but the Brave deserve the Fair! (Proof)

creator: John Leech, English, 1817 - 1864

medium: Chromolithograph on paper, mounted on heavy paper

subjects:
Chromolithograph
Paris, france

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Chintz fragments

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: mordants for 2 reds, 2 purples and black applied over resist by brush and pen; madder dyed; blue applied by immersion over resist; yellow applied by brush; chintz on plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
India

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Howell


title: Sidewall

medium: Machine-printed on paper, glazed

credit_line: Anonymous gift


title: Textile

medium: Medium: silk Technique: satin weave with supplementary weft patterning

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
France

credit_line: Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, Eleanor G. Hewitt and Au Panier Fleuri Funds and through bequest of Ida C. McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil


title: Mirror

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Cut glass, mirrored glass, metal, wood

country: Ireland

subjects: Glassware Ireland

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren


title: Tent panel

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: mordant painted and dyed (chintz) on tabby weave

country: Golconda, India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
Golconda, india


title: Country Stream with Boat and Possible Structures

creator: William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper

subjects: Landscape Usa

credit_line: Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest


title: Fork

medium: silver, enamel

country: Germany

subjects: Cutlery Germany

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Towel

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: plain weave embroidered with deflected element work

country: Italy

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Italy

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Sidewall - sample

medium: Machine-printed

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Dorwin L. Starr


title: Arrow Pattern

medium: Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile design
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Helen Snyder


title: Dagger Form Knife

date: early 16th century

medium: steel

country: Spain

subjects: Cutlery Spain


title: Band

date: late 16th–17th century

medium: Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidered


title: Selendang (shoulder cloth)

medium: Medium: silk Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave

country: Java, Indonesia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
Java, indonesia

credit_line: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe


title: Ornament Design, Tripod and Panels

medium: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, over graphite on laid paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Unknown Donor


title: Abstract Japanese Naval Flag Motif

date: mid 18th - early 19th century

medium: Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile design
Japan
Ships & the sea


title: Design for a Chalice

creator: Maximilian Joseph Limpach, Czech, active the 1st half of 18th century

medium: Etching and engraving on white paper

country: Rome, Italy

subjects:
Metalwork
Rome, italy

credit_line: Gift of F. Burrall Hoffman


title: Border

medium: Block-printed and flocked

subjects: Wallcovering France

credit_line: Gift of Cora Ginsburg


title: Sidewall

medium: Machine-printed paper

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Fourth Scene

creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

date: 1595 or before

medium: Recto: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper Verso: Pen and brown ink on laid paper

country: Florence, Tuscany, Italy

subjects:
Mythology
Drawing
Florence, tuscany, italy

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz


title: Vase

creator: Weller Pottery

medium: Earthenware, bronze

country: Zanesville, Ohio, USA

subjects:
Ceramic
Zanesville, ohio, usa

credit_line: Gift of Marcia and William Goodman


title: Frieze

creator: Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

country: New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
New york, usa


title: Sidewall

creator: F. E. James Co., New York, New York

medium: Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

country: New York, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
New york, new york, usa


title: Frieze

creator: Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

medium: Machine-printed paper, liquid mica, ungrounded

country: USA


title: Winged figure with bow

creator: Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

medium: Red chalk on paper

country: France

subjects: Figure France

credit_line: Gift of Noah Butkin


title: Parterre en platebende de Gazon (Flat Garden Beds with Grass), in Nouveaux Livre de Parterres contenant 24 pensséz diferantes (New Book Containing 24 Different Variations for Garden Beds)

creator: Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

medium: Etching and engraving on white laid paper

subjects:
Architecture
Netherland
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund


title: Portrait Sketch of a Young Girl

creator: Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

medium: Black crayon, white chalk, on brown paper

subjects: Portrait Usa

credit_line: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters


title: Apollo and Diana

creator: Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

medium: Woodcut on paper

subjects: Print Germany

credit_line: Gift of Leo Wallerstein


title: Hotel de Sens, Paris

creator: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

medium: Brush and watercolor on paper

subjects: Architecture Usa


title: On Road to Villeneuve

creator: Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner


title: Ceiling paper

subjects: Wallcovering Usa


title: Sewing instruction book

creator: Gertrude Hermes

medium: Medium: paper, silk cotton, metal grommets

subjects:
Sample book
Usa

credit_line: Gift of Gertrude Hess


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, peasant style

country: Abruzzi, Italy

subjects:
Lace
Abruzzi, italy


title: Leaden Hall Market, from "Ackermann's Repository"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756–1827

medium: Aquatint, brush and watercolor on paper

country: Europe

subjects: Print Europe

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Waistcoat

date: late 18th century

medium: Medium: silk Technique: chain stitch embroidery on satin weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
France

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Currants

date: October 2, 1827

medium: Brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper

country: England

subjects: Drawing England


title: Frieze

creator: Wm. Campbell Wall Paper Company, 1872

country: Hackensack, New Jersey, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Hackensack, new jersey, usa

credit_line: Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art


title: Sidewall

creator: Imperial Wall Paper Co., Sandy Hill, New York

country: Sandy Hill, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Sandy hill, new york, usa


title: Table screen and stand

date: probably 19th century

medium: Carved and gilt spinach-green jade, carved and inlaid lacquer, carved teak

country: China

subjects: Interior China

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth


title: Sampler

creator: Mary A. Fox

medium: Medium: cotton and silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: cross, double-cross, eyelet and queen embroidery stitches on foundation of plain weave with paired warps and wefts

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Usa

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection


title: Frieze

medium: Machine-printed paper, textured


title: A Cavalry Encounter

medium: Steel engraving on paper


title: Frontispiece: Della Magnificenza Ed. Architettura Dei Romani

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

medium: Black Ink on Paper

subjects: Print Italy

credit_line: Gift of Ely Jacques Kahn


title: Study for panel of the Tribune

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ornament
France


title: Design for Wallpaper and Textile: Flowers

medium: Brush and gouache on brown paper, lined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wallpaper design
France
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith


title: Sidewall - fragment

medium: Block-printed on handmade paper

credit_line: Gift of Charles F. Montgomery


title: Design for Wallpaper and Textiles: Flowers

medium: Brush and gouache, graphite on cream paper


title: Canopy

creator: Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

medium: Brush and watercolor, graphite on off-white coarse laid paper

subjects: Architecture England

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane


title: Branch with a cluster of ripe plums and caterpillars

creator: Mrs. Smith

medium: Watercolor

subjects:
Nature studie
England
Nature


title: Sadlers Wells Theatre, from "Ackermann's Repository"


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidered on plain weave

country: Italy or Spain

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Italy or spain

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Ceiling paper

medium: Machine printed paper, ungrounded, liquid mica

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Folding Fork with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

medium: silver

country: Germany

subjects: Cutlery Germany Flowers

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Sketchbook Page: English Ivy Leaves

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Carpet fragment

medium: Medium: wool Technique: double cloth

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Usa


title: Frieze

creator: Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

medium: Machine-printed paper

country: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa


title: Lock with turn key

date: 17th century

medium: Steel

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor


title: Bib fragment

medium: Medium: linen Technique: grid of laid cord with needle lace, reticella style

country: Italy

subjects: Lace Italy


title: Border

subjects: Wallcovering Usa


title: The Great Pagoda, Tritchinopoly, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

creator: Thomas Daniell, British, 1749 - 1840

medium: Colored aquatint on paper

country: London, England

subjects:
Print
London, england
Landscapes


title: Portrait of a Young Man

creator: Giuseppe Sabatelli, Italian, 1813–1843

medium: Black chalk on cream paper

subjects: Portrait Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Study of Female Nude

medium: Black crayon, white chalk, on gray paper

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters


title: Christ Carrying the Cross (Road to Calvary), from series The Passion of Christ

creator: Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491

medium: Engraving on laid paper

subjects: Figure Germany

credit_line: Gift of Leo Wallerstein


title: Horology: Escapements, from pl. XXXIII from "A Cyclopaedia of Horology - Rees's Clocks Watches and Chronometers"

creator: Abraham Rees, 1743 - 1825

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects: Print England

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler


title: Maquette for sitting room with large bay

creator: McMillen, Inc.

date: 20th century

medium: Brush and gouache on cream wove paper

subjects:
Architecture
Architecture, interior
New york, usa


title: Frontispiece, vasi invention, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes..."

creator: Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

date: 1768, published 1770

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture France

credit_line: Gift of Whitney Warren


title: Fauteuil Siamois, "Collection de Sieges," no. 60, in La Garde-Meuble (The Storehouse)

creator: Désiré Guilmard, French, 1810–1885

medium: Hand-colored lithograph on cream laid paper

country: Paris, France

subjects:
Furniture
Paris, france


title: Standing male figure in chiton

creator: Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

medium: Red chalk on paper

subjects: Figure France

credit_line: Gift of Noah Butkin


title: Plate 6, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

creator: Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
France

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt


title: Tailleur d'Habits, outils, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia

creator: Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784

medium: Engraving on white paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile design
France


title: A Couple Seated on a Bed

creator: Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503

date: late 15th century

medium: Engraving on white laid paper

country: Bocholt, Germany

subjects:
Figure
Bocholt, germany

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leo Wallerstein


title: Book-form

medium: Painted and glazed earthenware

country: Switzerland

subjects: Ceramic Switzerland

credit_line: Gift of the C. Helme and Alice B. Strater Collection


title: Sidewall

medium: Block-printed

subjects: Wallcovering France

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Strahan Company


title: Miniature in the form of a Grasshopper

date: late 19th century

medium: metal, enamel, acetate (wings)

country: Austria

subjects: Miniature Austria


title: Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, Stage 2

creator: Hugh Ferriss, American, 1889–1962

medium: Black crayon, stumped; brush and black ink over photostat, varnish on illustration board

country: New York, New York, USA

subjects:
Drawing
New york, new york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Hugh Ferriss


title: The Bagpiper

creator: Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

medium: Etching on laid paper


title: Salesman's samples

medium: Medium: silk Technique: embroidery using satin, stem and knot stitches on satin weave Label: silk embroidery using satin, stem and knot stitches on silk satin weave, black silk ribbon appliqué

country: France

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
France

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Door knocker

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Italy

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop


title: Mill Over a Stream

creator: Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

medium: Graphite and white heightening on cream paper

country: USA

subjects: Landscape Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner


title: Gothic Revival design with landscape vignette

creator: Unknown

medium: Block-printed paper

subjects: Wallcovering France Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Edwin R. Humiston


title: Textile

creator: Schwartz-Huguenin

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller and/or block printed on plain weave; glazed

country: Mulhouse, France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
Mulhouse, france

credit_line: Gift of Bruce Buttfield


title: Sampler

creator: Maddalena Barzechi, Italian

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross and satin stitches on plain weave foundation

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Italy

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer


title: Little Arthur

creator: James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903

medium: Etching on paper

subjects: Portrait Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. David Keppel


title: Cap streamers

medium: Medium: linen Technique: needle lace

subjects: Lace France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs


title: Study of Calm Ocean with Dramatic Light

creator: William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper, bound

subjects: Seascape Usa

credit_line: Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest


title: Textile

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: mordants for 2 reds, purple and black applied by pen and brush; madder dyed; blue applied over resist; yellow applied over blue for green, (chintz) on plain weave.

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
India

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Howell


title: Vulcanite

date: early 20th century

medium: Vulcanite

subjects: Container Usa

credit_line: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener


title: Sampler

creator: Elizabeth Scull, American

medium: Medium: silk embroidery with beads on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, stem, buttonhole, and satin stitches on plain weave foundation; beads sewn on with half cross stitches

country: New Jersey, USA

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
New jersey, usa


title: Frieze

medium: Block-printed on paper

country: England

subjects: Wallcovering England


title: Fragment

date: 18th or 19th century

medium: Medium: silk on linen foundation Technique: embroidered

country: Spain

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Spain

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Sampler

medium: Medium: wool embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross and back stitches on plain weave foundation

country: Friesland, Netherlands

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Friesland, netherland


title: Sampler

date: early 19th century

medium: Medium: cotton, paper Technique: embroidered on net

country: Germany

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Germany

credit_line: Gift of the estate of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper


title: Sketch of Calm Ocean with Contoured Clouds


title: Frieze

creator: York Wall Paper Company, 1895

medium: Machine-printed paper

country: York, Pennsylvania, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
York, pennsylvania, usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Light Sketch of Waves and Cliffs

medium: Pen and black ink on off-white wove paper


title: Frieze

creator: Henry Gledhill & Co., 1889 – 1900

medium: Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

subjects:
Wallcovering
New york, new york, usa


title: Calenfells Castle, near Kirn, Germany

creator: William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900

medium: Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper

country: Kirn, Germany

subjects:
Landscape
Kirn, germany

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roger H. Plowden


title: Sketchbook Page: Gothic Structure

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Chintz fragment

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: mordants for 2 reds, brown and black applied by pen and brush; madder dyed; blue applied over resist; yellow applied by brush; chintz on plain weave


title: Fork with Fluted Agate Handle

medium: silver, agate

country: probably Netherlands

subjects:
Cutlery
Probably netherland

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Sidewall - sample

creator: W.H. Mairs & Co., 1855

medium: Machine-printed

country: Brooklyn, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Brooklyn, new york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Dorwin L. Starr


title: Sidewall

creator: York Card & Paper Co., 1891


title: Two of Diamonds from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards

creator: B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France

medium: Lithograph on glazed paper

country: Paris, France

subjects:
Playing card
Paris, france

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Design for Fretwork, perhaps for the glass passage

creator: Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

date: 1803 or earlier

medium: Pen and blue, black ink, brush and watercolor on white wove paper

subjects: Interior England

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane


title: Sketchbook Page: Man in Profile


title: Sidewall

medium: Machine-printed and flocked

country: possibly USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Possibly usa

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Waterhouse


title: Lincrusta

medium: Linseed oil

country: England or USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
England or usa


title: Study for "The Mermaid Window," A.H. Barney Residence, New York, NY

creator: Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

medium: Pastel crayon, brush and wash on wove paper

country: New York, New York, USA

subjects:
Architecture
Architecture, interior
New york, new york, usa

credit_line: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters


title: Scarf sample

date: mid-19th century

medium: Medium: silk Technique: printed on plain weave

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
France

credit_line: Gift of Barbara Rogoff


title: Cliffs in Ocean

medium: Graphite on white paper, lined

country: USA

subjects: Seascape Usa


title: Sewing sampler

medium: Medium: cotton, silk Technique: embroidered with button holes, overcasting over deflected element and cross stitches on plain weave foundation

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer


title: Edge lace

medium: Medium: linen Technique: needle lace (hexagonal ground)

credit_line: Gift of Salisbury Day from the Estate of Katharine Day


title: Ceiling paper

subjects: Wallcovering Usa


title: Textile

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: relief printed, colored ground

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
England

credit_line: Gift of Harold M. Bailey


title: Detail of the Call to Arms Statue on the Dewey Arch

medium: Photographic print on paper

subjects: Architecture Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner


title: Ornament Design, Ewer between Roman Standards

creator: Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

medium: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, over graphite on laid paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Unknown Donor


title: Tea Bowl

creator: Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

medium: soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel

subjects: Ceramic England


title: Scenic Set 'L'Orage'

creator: Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

medium: block printed on paper

country: Rixheim, France

subjects:
Wallcovering
Rixheim, france

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith


title: Sidewall

medium: Block-printed paper, embossed

subjects: Wallcovering England

credit_line: Gift of Arlene M. and Thomas C. Ellis


title: Textile

medium: Medium: silk Technique: double cloth

country: Iran

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Iran

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs


title: Fork

medium: steel, brass, mother-of-pearl

subjects: Cutlery Germany


title: Flounce

medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style

subjects: Lace France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mary Carothers and Charles de Limur in memory of Ethel Mary de Limur


title: Country Life

medium: Machine-printed paper

credit_line: Gift of Francis Irene Clark


title: Waterfall

creator: James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913

medium: Graphite on laid paper

subjects: Landscape Usa

credit_line: Gift of Louis Cohen


title: British Footbal Player, inscribed "Saved"

medium: Plated metal

subjects: Container England

credit_line: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener


title: Woodblock from Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-na Uchi (Fifty-Three Stations on the Tokaido)

creator: Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

date: 19th century

medium: Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi)

country: Japan

subjects: Landscape Japan


title: Playing Cards

creator: Cornelius Saunders & Frank Shepherd

medium: Silver, enamel

country: London, England

subjects:
Container
London, england


title: Border

medium: Block-printed

country: possibly France

subjects:
Wallcovering
Possibly france

credit_line: Purchase, Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund


title: Frieze

creator: Robert Graves Co., New York, New York

subjects:
Wallcovering
New york, new york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Studies of Hands

creator: Edwin Howland Blashfield, American, 1848–1936

medium: Charcoal on grey wove paper

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy P. Huntington


title: candelabrum

creator: Alphonse Giroux & Cie, 1799–1867

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Metalwork
Paris, france

credit_line: Museum purchase through bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane


title: Bands

medium: Material: cotton, wool Technique: tapestry weave, slit and single interlock

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Peru

credit_line: Gift of Clara Waldeck


title: Le Sermon

creator: Charles Rauscher, b. 1841

medium: Etching in dark brown ink on white satin

country: Munich, Germany

subjects:
Print
Munich, germany

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor


title: Knife

medium: ivory, steel, brass

country: Germany or the Netherlands

subjects:
Cutlery
Germany or the netherland

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Coffeepot

medium: copper, silver, wood

country: Sheffield, England

subjects:
Metalwork
Sheffield, england

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren


title: Sketchbook Page

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Design for a Garden

creator: Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on cream paper

country: Netherlands

subjects: Architecture Netherland

credit_line: Museum purchase through bequest of Ida McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil


title: The Ecstasy of St. Francis

medium: Black chalk and brush and white gouache on cream paper

country: Italy

subjects: Figure Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Medium: wool, linen Technique: appliqué

country: Egypt

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Egypt

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Bowl

date: first half 19th century

medium: Blown glass

country: Great Britain

subjects:
Glassware
Great britain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore


title: Carp and Flowers

date: mid 18th - early 19th century

medium: Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile design
Japan
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Helen Snyder


title: Rebozo (shawl)

date: 18th century

medium: Medium: silk, metal Technique: (foundation) warp-faced plain weave; embroidered

country: Mexico

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Mexico

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. B. Campbell


title: Stormy Sea with Cliffs

creator: William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

date: after 1878

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper

subjects: Seascape Usa

credit_line: Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest


title: Textile

creator: Schwartz-Huguenin

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller and possibly block printed on plain weave; highly glazed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile

credit_line: Gift of Bruce Buttfield


title: Tower Base, Sketch of Ruins in Forest

creator: William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900

medium: Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper

subjects: Landscape Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roger H. Plowden


title: Frame

medium: Carved, molded and painted wood (probably fir)

country: Switzerland

subjects: Woodwork Switzerland

credit_line: Gift of the C. Helme and Alice B. Strater Collection


title: Brisé fan

medium: Painted bone sticks, silk ribbon, rivet set with a stone

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
France
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robertson D. Ward, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. Helen Wright-Clark Dawson


title: Salad Bowl, from the Cabbage Leaf Service (Saladier; Service à Feuilles de Chou)

creator: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

medium: soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

subjects: Ceramic France

credit_line: Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund


title: Sampler

medium: Medium: wool and straw embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, half cross, satin, roumanian, back, rococo, fishbone, knot, and running stitches on plain weave foundation

country: Germany

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Germany

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer


title: Sidewall

medium: Machine-printed

country: USA

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Deerfield Academy


title: Flounce

date: early 18th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: needle lace, 6-sided reworked ground

country: France or Italy

subjects:
Lace
France or italy

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Sidewall - sample

medium: Machine-printed paper

credit_line: Gift of Dorwin L. Starr


title: A Cavalier (Proof)

creator: John Leech, English, 1817 - 1864

medium: Chromolithograph on paper, mounted on heavy paper

country: Paris, France

subjects:
Chromolithograph
Paris, france

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Study for "Wedding Procession"

creator: Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

medium: Pastel crayon on paper

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters


title: Equipment Used for Spinning Silk

creator: Louis-Jacques Goussier, French, 1722 - 1799

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects: Print France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler


title: Ornament Design, Tripod and Roman Standards

creator: Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

medium: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor over graphite on laid paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Unknown Donor


title: Sample book

medium: Medium: cardboard, paper, cotton Technique: block and roller printed on plain weave

country: England

subjects:
Sample book
England

credit_line: Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund


title: Border

date: 17th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace (early Valenciennes ground)

country: Belgium

subjects: Lace Belgium

credit_line: Gift of Frances Morris


title: knife

date: 18th–19th century

medium: silver

subjects: Cutlery England

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morrill


title: Orator Henley Christening a Child

creator: Jane Ireland, British

medium: Etching on paper

subjects: Print England


title: Sampler

creator: Susan Cuming, English

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, chain, and running stitches on a plain weave foundation

country: North Bovey, Devon, England

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
North bovey, devon, england


title: Quatre Parties du monde

creator: Joseph Gaspard Picart

medium: Medium: silk Technique: damask

country: Lyon, France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Lyon, france

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde


title: Textile

medium: Medium: wool on cotton Technique: crewel wool embroidery

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Embroidery & stitching
France


title: Vase

medium: glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Homer Kripke


title: Fragment

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Medium: silk, metallic Technique: velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Italy

credit_line: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf


title: Sidewall - sample


title: Cinching Up, Illustration for The Century Magazine (XXXVIII, No. 1, May 1889, p. 2)

creator: Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938

medium: Wood-engraving in black ink on paper

subjects:
Graphic design
Usa
Graphic arts

credit_line: Gift of E. Maurice Bloch


title: Ceiling paper

creator: Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York

country: Sandy Hill, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Sandy hill, new york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Habit de Cordonnier [The Shoemaker]

creator: Nicolas de Larmessin II, French, ca. 1638 - 1694

medium: Engraving

country: Europe

subjects: Figure Europe

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Samuel W. Bridgham


title: Plave LIV from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

creator: Julio Paschale

medium: Woodcut on paper

subjects:
Print
Lyon, france


title: Light Sketch of Choppy Sea with Rocks and Cliffs at Left

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper, bound

subjects: Seascape Usa

credit_line: Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest


title: Grotesque Heads

creator: Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804

medium: Pen and ink on paper

subjects: Figure Italy

credit_line: Gift of Hugh Cassel


title: Ceiling paper

creator: Keystone Wall-Paper Company

medium: Machine-printed paper

country: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa


title: Fork with Carved Figural Coral Handle

medium: coral, silver plated, gold

country: Nuremberg, Germany

subjects:
Cutlery
Nuremberg, germany
Corals & anemones

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Sidewall

medium: Block-printed on handmade paper

subjects: Wallcovering France

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith


title: Sketchbook Page: Girl in a Hat

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Frieze

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Howell


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a satin foundation

country: Italy

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: The Right Hon. Gustavus Lord Viscount Boyne & C

creator: A.M. Ireland

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler


title: Ignudo from Sistine Chapel ceiling

creator: Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

medium: Red chalk on paper

subjects: Figure France

credit_line: Gift of Noah Butkin


title: Design for a Lobby, Possibly the Ante Room to the Music Room

creator: Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

medium: Brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper

subjects: Interior England

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane


title: Unfinished Landscape with Large Trees, Pond and Hills

creator: William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

subjects: Landscape Usa Trees


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a plain weave foundation


title: Border

medium: Medium: linen Technique: needle lace with ground of loop and twist with twist return

subjects: Lace Italy

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Ocean View with Light Breaking through Dark Sky

medium: Pen and black ink on off-white wove paper


title: Sampler

date: late 19th century

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitches on plain weave foundation

country: Austria

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Austria

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer


title: Brisé fan

date: early 19th–early 20th century

medium: Tortoise shell sticks pierced and painted with gouache, silk ribbon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
France
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor


title: Bandits Pursuing Cowboys

creator: Victor Semon Pérard, American, 1870–1957

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Gift of F. Elizabeth De Voy


title: Border

date: mid-17th century

medium: Medium: Technique: needle lace

credit_line: Gift of I. Townsend Burden, Jr.


title: Ceiling paper

medium: Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: St. Stephan's Walbrook, from "Ackermann's Repository"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756–1827

medium: Aquatint, brush and watercolor on paper

subjects: Print Europe

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Vase

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Italy


title: Sketchbook Page


title: Tangiers

creator: Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

medium: Graphite, brush and watercolor on paper

subjects: Architecture Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner


title: Narrow Street with Houses

medium: Brush and watercolor on paper

subjects: Landscape Usa


title: Sidewall

subjects: Wallcovering Usa


title: Design for State Bedchamber, in Second Livre d'Appartement (Second Book on Interiors)

creator: Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

medium: Etching and engraving on white laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects: Architecture Netherland

credit_line: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund


title: Group of Heads

creator: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French, 1758–1823

medium: Black chalk on cream paper

subjects: Figure Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Medium: silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
France


title: Frieze

medium: Machine-printed paper


title: Sampler

date: early 17th century

medium: Medium: silk and linen embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, back, buttonhole, whipped running, withdrawn element work with needle-made fillings; overcasting, looping, and darning stitches on plain weave foundation

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Netherland


title: Miser's purse

date: early 19th century

medium: Medium: silk, metal Technique: crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum


title: Sidewall

creator: American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association, 1879–1887

medium: Machine-printed and embossed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William B. Eldredge


title: Devotional Picture: The Miraculous Virgin of Cell

medium: Brush and pink and gold watercolor on paper, mounted

subjects: Drawing Germany


title: "The Storm"

medium: Silver

subjects: Container Usa

credit_line: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener


title: Sampler

medium: Medium: silk on linen Technique: cross stitch on plain weave foundation. Counted stitches.

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
England

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection


title: Comme song quelques-unes

creator: Pierre Maleuvre, French, 1740 - 1803

medium: Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper

subjects: Print France


title: Sampler

medium: Medium: silk, flat metal, and metal-wrapped silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, cross, satin, back, rococo and couching stitches on plain weave foundation

country: Bohemia

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Bohemia


title: Bachelor's Wall Paper

creator: Charles Dana Gibson, American, 1867–1944

country: Buffalo, New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Buffalo, new york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art


title: Sidewall

medium: Machine-printed and flocked

country: possibly USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
Possibly usa

credit_line: Gift of Morris County Historical Society


title: Knife from a Cutlery Set

medium: steel, gold, horn, mother of pearl

subjects: Cutlery Europe

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Ceiling paper

creator: Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

medium: Machine-printed paper, liquid mica

country: USA


title: Sidewall

creator: Frederick Beck & Co., 1860

country: New York, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
New york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Kenway from the estate of Sarah B. Russell


title: Plate 9, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

creator: Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

medium: Engraving on paper

country: France

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
France

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt


title: Sidewall - sample

medium: Machine-printed

credit_line: Gift of Dorwin L. Starr


title: Border

medium: Medium: linen Technique: knotting (macramé)

country: Italy or Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Knotted, knitted and crocheted textile
Italy or spain

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Border

medium: Block-printed on handmade paper

subjects: Wallcovering France

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Howell


title: Untitled Montage of Figures in Landscapes

creator: Unknown, American

medium: Steel engravings cut out and mounted, with pen and ink additions on paper

subjects:
Graphic design
Usa
Landscapes
Graphic arts

credit_line: Gift of Carol MacDonald


title: Chintz fragment

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: mordant for 2 reds and purple applied by pen and brush; madder dyed; blue applied (probably by immersion) over resist; chintz on plain weave

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
India


title: Ace of Clubs

creator: E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

medium: Lithograph on paper

country: Paris, France

subjects:
Toys & game
Paris, france
Amusement

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Dexter J. Purinton


title: Wall tile

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

country: Ottoman Empire (present day Syria)

subjects:
Tile
Ottoman empire (present day syria)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell C. Veit


title: Textile

date: 19th century

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile


title: Frieze

medium: Machine-printed paper.

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Medium: linen Technique: grid of laid cords with needle lace (reticella style), edge of punto in aria

subjects: Lace Italy

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Great African Kingfisher, Plate 11 from Birds of Western Africa

creator: William Home Lizars, Scottish, 1788 - 1859

country: Edinburgh, Scotland

subjects:
Print
Edinburgh, scotland
Birds

credit_line: Gift of Hamill and Barker


title: Button

creator: Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

date: late 18th century

medium: Gouache paint on tin verre fixé, ivory (backing), glass, gilt metal

country: Haiti

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume & accessorie
Haiti

credit_line: Gift of R. Keith Kane from the Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes


title: New England Factory Life – "Bell-Time"

creator: Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

medium: Wood engraving in black ink on paper

subjects: Figure Usa

credit_line: Gift of John Goldsmith Phillips, Jr.


title: Ceiling paper


title: Fragment of band

medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, discontinuous tape


title: Jar and lid

medium: Glass

country: England

subjects: Glassware England

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren


title: St. Bruno in Ecstasy

creator: Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729

medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on paper

subjects: Figure Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Une visite au Village

creator: Gihaut Frères, French, 1815 - 1871

medium: Lithograph, brush and watercolor on paper

subjects:
Print
Paris, france


title: Sketchbook Page: Iris

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Christ in Limbo (The Harrowing of Hell)

creator: Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

medium: Woodcut on laid paper

country: Germany

subjects: Figure Germany

credit_line: Gift of William J. Donald


title: Border

medium: Technique: bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of I. Townsend Burden, Jr.


title: Italian peasant family

medium: Brush and oil paint on rigid paper

subjects: Drawing Germany

credit_line: Gift of Milton Einstein


title: Christmas – Gathering Evergreens

date: December 25, 1858


title: Child

creator: Amedeo Modigliani, Italian, 1884–1920

medium: Graphite on cream wove paper mounted on cardboard

country: Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Milbauer


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a satin foundation

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Italy


title: Sidewall

creator: M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834

medium: Machine-printed on paper

subjects:
Wallcovering
Buffalo, new york, usa

credit_line: Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art


title: Fragment

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Medium: silk, cotton Technique:

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Spain

credit_line: Gift of Frederick Wilkins


title: Fragment

creator: Shoolbreds & Co.

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: roller printed on plain weave foundation

country: London, England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
London, england

credit_line: Bequest of Elinor Merrell


title: Bedcover

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: embroidered on plain weave

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Usa


title: Textile

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Medium: linen, wool Technique: embroidered

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Embroidery & stitching
Egypt

credit_line: Gift of Frances Morris


title: Fragments

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
France


title: Decor Pastoral

creator: Jules Desfossé, French, active 1851 - 1863

medium: Block-printed paper

subjects:
Wallcovering
Paris, france

credit_line: Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund


title: Ceiling paper

medium: Machine-printed paper

subjects: Wallcovering Usa

credit_line: Gift of Victorian Collectibles


title: Palampore

date: 18th century

medium: Medium: cotton Technique: mordant painted and resist-dyed (chintz) on plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed, dyed & painted textile
India

credit_line: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: Technique: needle lace


title: Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, from The Little Passion Series

medium: Woodcut on paper

subjects: Print Germany

credit_line: Gift of Leo Wallerstein


title: Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Norma from the opera "Norma"

creator: Jenny Lind, Swedish, 1820–1887

medium: Lithograph on white wove paper

country: Europe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Toys & game
Europe
Amusement

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Rosengarten


title: Plate XI, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

creator: Julio Paschale

subjects: Print Europe

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler


title: Tile

creator: Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908

medium: Formed, applied and glazed earthenware

country: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

subjects:
Tile
Boston, massachusetts, usa

credit_line: Gift of Marcia and William Goodman


title: Fragment

medium: Medium: silk Technique: warp-faced plain weave patterned by warp dyed (possibly printed) stripes

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith


title: Mug

medium: Glass

country: England or Ireland

subjects:
Glassware
England or ireland

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren


title: Design for a Chimneypiece, Wall with Chinoiserie Landscape, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

creator: Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

medium: Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper

subjects:
Architecture
Architecture, interior
England
Landscapes

credit_line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane


title: Figures Attacked by Serpents

creator: Raymond Lafage, French, 1656–1684

medium: Pen and brown ink, black chalk on paper

subjects: Figure Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne


title: Ladies' Fashion: Hairdressing and Hats

creator: Johann August Rossmassler, German, 1752 - 1783

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print
Germany


title: Ceiling paper

creator: Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

country: USA


title: Tile

creator: J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

medium: Glazed stoneware

country: Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA

subjects:
Tile
Chelsea, massachusetts, usa

credit_line: Gift of Florence Barnes


title: Border

medium: Medium: raffia Technique: plain weave embroidered with stem stitches

country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Democratic republic of the congo


title: Inkwell

medium: Cast and gilt bronze

subjects: Metalwork Germany

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pflueger


title: Frieze

creator: Janeway & Carpender, New Brunswick, New Jersey, est. ca. 1872

medium: Machine-printed on paper

country: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

subjects:
Wallcovering
New brunswick, new jersey, usa

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Holman


title: Creamer

creator: Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

medium: porcelain, vitreous enamel

subjects: Ceramic England

credit_line: Gift of Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Medium: wool Technique: damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
Spain


title: Cap fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidered

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Egypt

credit_line: Bequest of Marian Hague


title: Christ on the Cross with Mary and John

creator: Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491

medium: Engraving on laid paper

subjects: Figure Germany


title: Jar and lid

subjects: Glassware Europe


title: Matchsafe Hand Holding Cigar Amid Smoke and Man Blowing Smoke

medium: silver

subjects: Container Usa

credit_line: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener


title: Pillow cover

medium: Medium: linen Technique: cutwork, embroidery

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Usa


title: Border

medium: Medium: linen, silk Technique: plain weave embroidered with cutwork

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Spain


title: Orfevrerie Grossier, Ouvrages, Plate I from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

creator: J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784

country: France

subjects: Print France


title: Plate Design with Pair of Exotic Birds on a Blossoming Branch

creator: Amédée de Caranza, active Longwy and Bordeaux, ca. 1867 – 1885

medium: Brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite on heavy cream wove paper

subjects: Ceramic France Birds

credit_line: Museum purchase through bequest of Ida McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil


title: Fight between Elephants and Snakes, plate 2 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

date: 1596 or after

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Nature studie
Netherland
Reptiles & amphibians
Nature

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. W. Erickson


title: The Rape of Europa

creator: J. Berger

medium: Steel engraving on paper

subjects: Print Europe


title: Mourning sampler

creator: Sarah Ann Wimpory

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: uncounted stitches; cross and satin stitch on plain weave foundation

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
England

credit_line: Bequest of Rosalie Coe, from the collection inherited from her mother, Eva Johnston Coe


title: Stained glass window: three part design

creator: John C. Wolf

medium: Brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board

subjects: Glassware Usa

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George F. Bateman


title: Mother-of-pearl and Steel Knife Handle with Threaded Hole

medium: steel, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg


title: Band

medium: Medium: linen, silk Technique: silk long armed cross and back stitches on linen plain weave

subjects:
Embroidery & stitching
Italy

credit_line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf


title: Sketchbook Page

creator: Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

medium: Graphite on paper

subjects:
Album (bound) & book
Usa

credit_line: Bequest of Allyn Cox


title: Band

medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin made continuous tape with bars added

subjects: Lace Italy


title: From the Tops of the Furnaces

creator: Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926

medium: Lithograph on ivory laid paper

subjects: Architecture Usa


title: Textile

date: mid-18th century

medium: Medium: silk Technique: compound weave with supplementary weft

country: France or Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woven textile
France or italy