Collection Highlights: Insects!
Creepy crawly critters are a popular design motif, hiding in plain sight throughout the Cooper Hewitt collection.
- Hanakarakusa W Brooch
- gold powder, gold beads, egg shells, mother-of-pearl, colored lacquer....
- Gift of Van Cleef and Arpels.
- 2011-42-2
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Insects, 18th century
- rice paper.
- Gift of Miss Virginia Gerson .
- 1910-28-7
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Design for Necklace with Brazilian Beetles
- graphite, brush and watercolor, white heightening on tracing paper.
- 1910-44-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Cricket Cage (possibly India)
- ivory, silk (cord and tassel).
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1916-19-103-a,b
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 4 images of this object.
- Cricket Cage And Base (Japan)
- rattan, bamboo, lacquered wood (base); fiber, paper, silk, feathers....
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1916-40-3-a,b
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Butterfly over Water, ca. 1865
- brush and oil paint on paperboard.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-152
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Print, Si quid melius videris
- blackwork engraving on paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-261-16
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Bound Print, La Brouette
- etching on laid paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-402-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Bird, Butterfly, and Pear, 18th century
- brush and black ink, watercolor, graphite traces on coated wove paper.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1923-22-17
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Brown Bird on Branch with Rose, Tulip, and Insects
- pen and ink, graphite on coated wove paper.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1923-22-18
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Mezzaro (shawl Or Headcovering) (Italy)
- cotton.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, from the textile collection of Mrs. Abram....
- 1931-4-11
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Drawing, A Fly-Catcher
- pen and ink on paper.
- Gift of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.
- 1931-65-85
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Book, Plate from "Le Livre de toutes sortes de fleurs d'après nature"
- engraving on paper.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-73-311/407
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 35 images of this object.
- Pleated Fan And Case (France)
- painted parchment leaf, carved, pierced, painted and gilt ivory sticks.
- Gift of Mrs. A. Murray Young.
- 1937-28-2-a,b
- Tile Tile
- earthenware, glaze.
- Museum purchase from the Misses Hewitt Fund.
- 1937-62-8
- This object was made by Moravian Pottery and Tile Works.
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- Shawl (China)
- silk.
- Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Moen.
- 1945-27-5-a
- Tile (USA)
- earthenware, glaze.
- Museum purchase through gift of James O. Green.
- 1947-68-1
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Miniature in the form of a Grasshopper Miniature
- metal, enamel, acetate (wings).
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 1949-49-9
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Print, La Puce vue au Microscope (The Flea seen through a Microscope) from...
- Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler.
- 1949-152-864
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Veil Pin (France)
- gold, emeralds, diamonds, silver.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 1953-178-45
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- Sidewall, Spring Song
- machine-printed paper.
- Gift of The Wallpaper Magazine.
- 1953-198-11
- This object was made by F. Schumacher & Co..
- This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
- Kimono Fabric (Japan)
- cotton.
- Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund.
- 1954-124-2
- Textile (Japan)
- ramie.
- 1955-161-2
- Waistcoat (France)
- silk.
- Gift of Monsieur Robert de Micheaux.
- 1956-155-1
- "Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve) Plate
- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamels.
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- 1957-11-6
- This object was made by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory.
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- "Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve) Plate
- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- 1957-11-10
- This object was made by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory.
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Handscreen
- silk leaf with applied kingfisher feathers, silk-wrapped frame, carved ivory....
- Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim.
- 1958-140-1
- Drawing, Textile Design: Butterflies
- brush and watercolor, pen and black ink on paper.
- 1960-135-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, A-Climbing We Will Go
- brush and watercolors over graphite on paper.
- 1961-89-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Branch with a cluster of ripe plums and caterpillars
- watercolor.
- Gift of Hamill and Barker.
- 1961-105-115
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Butterfly
- brush and watercolor on paper.
- Gift of Hamill and Barker.
- 1961-105-120-a
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Salesman's Samples (France)
- silk.
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
- 1962-52-26-a,b
- Coif (England)
- silk and metal-wrapped silk-core embroidery on linen foundation.
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
- 1962-53-4
- Man's Cap (England)
- silk and metallic embroidery on linen foundation, metal spangles.
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
- 1962-53-11
- Embroidered Picture, Cat and Snail
- wool, linen.
- Gift of Georgiana Brown Harbeson.
- 1962-97-1
