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A section of a hall in Greco-Roman style with statues, medallions, and windows.

Bound Print, Section of the Long Side of Entrance Hall at Syon House,...
etching on cream laid paper.
1981-36-2-25

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

At the center of this gate, there is a fountain with Neptune about to use his trident to spear the figure of a dolphin. Next to the dolphin, there is a putto. At the top of each arch of the gate, there is a sizable crown. On the cartouche in the middle of the gate Fleurs de Lis are featured. On either side of the cartouche, there are portaits of helmeted warriors.

Print, Dessein des Grandes Grilles posées sur la Place royale de Nancy en...
engraving on heavy cream laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-210-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Design for an elaborate Cabriolet in the Rococo manner. Cabriolet is covered with floral ornament with two masks carved into it. At the front, beneath the driver's seat, on sees what is either a tray or mirror. Behind the passenger's seat, there is space for storage.

Print, Design for a Cabriolet, 1753
etching on cream laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-221-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Design for a carriage. The roof of the coach is dome-shaped with tassels hanging down. Plant ornament encompasses the coach from its door to its wheels. At the back of the coach, where the driver would presumably sit, a crown and possibly a riding crop are set upon a cushion. At the front of the coach, there are various household objects like a lamp and ornate, framed mirror. The carriage's door has a screen-like window, and below this, a framed pastoral scene.

Print, Design for a Carriage, 1753
etching, engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-221-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

One of a set of five panels for a fold-up screen. The other designs in the series include Rocaille (Rococo Motifs); Hommage Champêtre (Pastorale); and Léda, all etched by Claude Duflos; and Triomphe de Pomone (Triumph of Pomona) etched by Charles Nicolas Cochin the Younger. Shell motif at top. Three putti grasping at berries in the upper portion of the design, to the right of a herm in the personification of Priapus, protector of orchards and gardens, which is at left. Cypress trees at right. Two putti pulling a goat on top of stairs and other putti both helping with the goat and holding berries. Panel framed with leaves, branches and berries.

Print, Triomphe de Priape [Triumph of Priapus] in Nouveaux Morceaux pour des...
etching and engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-203-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Ground plan of the theatre: horse-shoe shaped space and entry at bottom; exterior spaces (canal?) indicated in green.

Drawing, Competition Design for La Fenice, Venice: Ground Plan, 1788
pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor on two sheets of white....
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-117

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Print, L'Une des Faces de la Chambre à Coucher de Mme G. à Pari, 1812
etching on cream wove paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-377-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Winged Griffin on a Rocaille Bracket, Plate 6, Première Partie divers Ornements (Various Ornament Designs, Part One)

Print, Winged Griffin on a Rocaille Bracket, Plate 6, Première Partie divers...
etching on white laid paper.
1921-6-213-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Stage flat, green-stained, with base solid at front and covered with printed and colored paper depicting a theatre orchestra; folding framework attached, with red curtain on roller and strips for holding wings. Proscenium, printed and colored paper, shellacked, mounted on cardboard backed with thin wood frame; it depicts boxes with spectators, proscenium doors, and across top, British Royal arms, scenes from plays, and Apollo in his chariot, with Muses. Head of Shakespeare at bottom of proscenium arch. Red cut-out representation of curtain in opening. Two separate slides for stage floor, with thumb-grooves.

Toy, Toy Theater, 1877–1935
wood, paper and cloth; wood, cardboard and printed and colored paper.
Gift of W. H. Solle.
1938-61-1-a

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament

Print, Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament
etching, engraving on white laid paper.
1921-6-317-28

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Three designs for wall sconces in the Chinoiserie style. Left: a Chinese man sits above branches and scrolls, a clock below and a candle right and left. At center: A rocaille head, a candle, right and left center; Right: a small windmill with branches around and a mule below.

Print, Three Designs for Wall Sconces in the Chinese Taste, Plate 48 in One...
etching on cream laid paper, bound in book.
Museum purchase through gift of Agnes Miles Carpenter.
1962-191-22

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Several designs of brackets with stalactite-like decoration.

Print, Design for Wall Brackets, Plate 42 in One Hundred and Fifty New...
etching, engraving on cream laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Agnes Miles Carpenter.
1962-191-18

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Four table leg designs; upper design shows a snake wrapped around neck of a hawk; left design: putto supports table; right design: head/mask/bust; lower design: bird with vines and rinceaux.

Print, Plate 18 in One Hundred and Fifty New Designs, 1756–57
etching on cream laid paper, bound in book.
Museum purchase through gift of Agnes Miles Carpenter.
1962-191-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Page from "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" 2nd edition. Three chairs with unornamented seats. The legs and backs are ornamented in the Rococo style with slightly varying details. The legs and basic structure are very similar.

Print, Chairs, No. XIV, 1755
etching on off-white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-450-15

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Page from "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" 2nd edition.

Print, Gerandoles, 1755
etching on off-white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-450-142

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Print, Receuil de 29 pièces in-folio: Suite de 9 pièces: Seconde livre de...
engraving.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-327-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Two drawings for commodes. The top drawing depicts the cabinet as having an angelic mask in the center, at the top, surrounded by curving, vine-like designs. On the upper corner of the first commode, there is a grotesque, diabolic head. The second commode is similar, but without the mask or head and with a slightly varied pattern.

Print, Deux différents desseins de Comodes (Designs for Two Commodes) in...
etching, engraving on off-white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-285-35

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Large-scale drawing of fireplace with andirons in foreground and cartouche decoration at rear of opening. The overmantel consists of a large rococo mirror which reflects the other side of the room. Three-branched wall lights are attached to either side of the mirror. At top of mirror, near ceiling, are two putti playing with garland flowers. Enclosed in a paneled frame (left) is a partial view of a painting, "Zephyr et Flore," showing putti, flowers, and the legs of a goddess. A putto, holding a flamed torch, is at top of painting. In the paneled frame (right) is a partial view of a man holding a spear in his right hand with two dogs nearby.

Print, Cabinet de Mr. le Comte Bielenski (sic), Grand Maréchal de la...
engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-212-45

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Print, Projet de Sculpture en Argent d'un Grand Surtout de Table et les Deux Terrines...Executée pour Millord Kinston (sic) en 1735 (Design for Centerpiece and Two Tureens for the Duke of Kingston in 1735) plate 115 in Œuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Print, Projet de Sculpture en Argent d'un Grand Surtout de Table et les Deux...
etching on off-white laid paper.
1921-6-212-72

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Checked yellow ground with three white and two black rectangles.

Brochure, Product listing brochure for Louvron Lightolier, 1952
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Susan Lustig Peck.
2001-29-57

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Repeated image of silencers on black ground. Red line runs across center of page.

Brochure, Product brochure for Kittell Silencers, Industrial Mobile Marine,...
lithograph on heavy paper.
Gift of Susan Lustig Peck.
2001-29-64

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Book/Print, Design for a table with monopods, Plate 38 in Receuil des...
etching on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-377-39

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Bound Print, Two Upright Panels, Livre de Paneaux à divers usages (Book of Panels for Various Uses)

Bound Print, Two Upright Panels, Livre de Paneaux à divers usages (Book of...
engraving on off-white laid paper.
1921-6-282-59

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Book, Proposed Alterations at Oddington, Gloucestershire, 1813
leather with gilding, off-white wove paper brush and watercolor, pen and ink,....
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1947-106-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Design for rocaille silver, serving dish. Asymmetric in form with two, twisting handles. Ornamented with root vegetables set in looping, lettuce and shell-like border.

Print, Design for a Silver Platter, ca. 1750
engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-300-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cartouche decorated with a crook tied with a bow, a horn, a shepherd's hat, two lambs, a dog, and two baskets.

Print, Design for a Cartouche with Pastoral Motifs, 1740
engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-326-16

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Folio 12, plate 12 of a series of 12. Design for mounts of a ewer or vase influenced by shell forms to be executed in jasper. A figure of a young boy reclines on rocks, shells, and flowers on the lid, a goat with a long tail decorates the handle, and acanthus and scroll motifs adorn the foot. At right, a line drawing of the ewer to which the mounts would be attached.

Bound Print, Plate 12, Livre de vases (Book of Vases), ca. 1738
etching in red ink on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-245-12

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Bottom of box (see related object 1994-63-3).

Box, Packaging for Metz & Co. (Box), ca. 1952
brown cardboard (box bottom), aluminum staples.
Gift of June Braun and Robert Leibowits.
1994-63-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Vertical. Cut out following the outlines of the design. Shown from the left corner of the foot part. The bed is covered and appears as an oblong. Above the head part rises a pediment of a kind, framed by scrolls and bands. In the center on top is an indistinct motif, a shell or a leaf or a bead. Below it is an ovoidal medallion. The cresting of the canopy consists of a curve entablature upon which escutcheons stand at the four corners and in the middle of the three protruding sides. A horizontal strip of cloth and two curtains hang from the cresting.

Drawing, Project: A Bed with a Canopy, 1700–1730
black chalk, pen, ink, brush, bistre, grey water color, paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-3705

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Brown cardboard box lid with printed De Stijl typography. Red rectangle followed by the words METZ_&_Co. followed by a black rectangle. Second line, the word, AMSTERDAM. Third line, DEN_HAAG.

Box Cover, Packaging for Metz & Co. (Box Lid), ca. 1952
screenprint in black, red ink on brown cardboard, aluminum staples.
Gift of June Braun and Robert Leibowits.
1994-63-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

1993-151-428 -33 - The box, fabricated of heavy natural cardboard, is imprinted in red on the attached lid: Upper left, in sans serif capital letters, Blocks (underscored)/ By M&Co New York. Five World Alphabets (Arabic, Cyrillic,/ Hebrew, Japanese, and Latin) Printed in Non-Toxic Inks on/ 30 Blocks of Solid Pennsylvania Poplar (in a Wooden Tray). Below that, in the lower half, is an illustration of a tray of cube-shaped blocks, unlettered; an arrow curved to the right points to an illustration of a block, three sides visible and marked by a Latin A, Hebrew aleph and one of the forty-six written Japanese Hiragana symbols.

1993-151-428 - 1/30 - Thirty blocks are arranged in six horizontal and five vertical rows, which expose to the viewer the twenty-six letters, in alphabetical order, of the Latin (Roman) alphabet. The letters A, E, O, and T are in duplicate, in order to accommodate the depiction on the five remaining sides of three of the four additional alphabets, Arabic, Cyrillic and Japanese Hiragana, each containing more than twenty-six letters. (Hebrew, the fifth alphabet, contains twenty-six letters.) In the third horizontal row, in the third position, the M block is imprinted A Set of Blocks/ M/ By M&Co New York. A consistent color scheme is followed throughout: Latin, black; Arabic, green; Cyrillic, blue; Hebrew, orange; and Japanese, red.

1993-151-428 - 31 - Wood tray that holds the blocks.

1993-151-428 - 32 - The insert, in a black and red color scheme on white cardboard, is headed in capital sans serif type: The 5 Alphabets* On Your M&Co Global Blocks.../ And 3 Sample Words: What They Look Like, How to Say Them, And What They Mean.
The asterisk is footnoted to four lines of type on the lower left: There are many other alphabets used around the world; we just couldn't fit them all. The remaining space is divided into five sections, one for each alphabet, comprised of a one-line introductory statement; a one-line depiction of each alphabet's letters; and three words, chicken, stupid and laugh, imprinted in the designated alphabet and
transliterated into Latin letters, indicating pronunciation.

Blocks, M&Co: Five World Alphabets, 1991
wood, paint, cardboard box and printed white wove paper.
Gift of Tibor Kalman/ M & Co..
1993-151-428-1/33

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Sketchbook, Funny Garbage Design

Sketchbook, Funny Garbage Design
pen and ink, brush and gouache on paper.
2000-56-2-1/93

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 9 images of this object.

When assembled, the package is comprised of the black flannel case (1993-151-430 - 3) containing the watch {not present here], inserted in the split of the foam wedge (1993-151-430 -2); this ensemble is wrapped by the insert (1993-151-430d), which is topped by the tab (1993-151-430 - 5). The whole is encased in the four-sided matte black cardboard wrapper (1993-151-430 - 1), which when closed forms a triangular shape, of which two sides are fastened in the center by a thin red string attached to metal grommets surrounded by black reinforcements. The wrapper's principal face is adorned in the center by a pale silver-colored label, outlined in black and imprinted M&Co (lower case italics)/ Labs (small sans serif capitals).

1993-151-430 - 4 - The cardboard insert folds lengthwise in the center. On the recto, a photographic view in tones of gray shows a gondola car, passengers within, suspended on cables within a mountainous landscape. The company name and address are imprinted on four lines to the right of the car. Place/ stamp/ here is imprinted in the upper right hand corner. On the verso, except for a strip of the recto landscape located on the right edge, product information covers the surface.

1993-151-430 - 5 - The design on the white paper tab consists of an imprint, in miniature, of the face of the Askew wristwatch, reproduced in black at the lower end.

Packaging, M&Co: M&Co Labs Askew Wristwatch Package, 1983
offset lithography.
Gift of Tibor Kalman/ M & Co..
1993-151-430-1/5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Head and shoulders of a w, ca. 1775

Print, Head and shoulders of a w, ca. 1775
engraving, heightened with color.
Bequest of Katherine Strong Welman.
1908-23-30

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Fourteen page booklet published by the Amsterdamse Rietveld Academie

Catalogue, Uit De Tijd: Een Tentoonstelling Over Het Fenomeen Leeftijd, 2008
offset lithograph on coated wove paper.
Gift of Michiel Schuurman.
2008-22-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Numerical calendar that starts at 1 January 0 and extends to 31 December 2000. The numbers are so small the sheet appears to be merely a gray tone. Only upon closer inspection is the numerical component perceived.

Print, 2000 Year Calendar, 1996
off-set lithograph.
Gift of John and Kris Maeda.
2000-49-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.