Architectural and Decorative Designs

Intricate sketches and prints of decorative elements and architectural designs, emphasizing form, detail, and historical styles.

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), crushing frieze (main title), 1850. Graphite on white paper. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), crushing frieze (main title), 1850. Graphite on white paper. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Print (France)

Saturn in a medallion, 1900 - 1903 Saturn wears a scythe over his shoulder. Above the medallion two smaller medallions with rings that hook together and representations of the constellations Capricorn and Waterman. Design for a stained glass window for the Chamber of Commerce in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Page 1 recto from a sketchbook with 45 sheets. paper. pencil attributes of Saturn: scythe. (story of) Saturn (Cronus). Capricorn (zodiacal sign of December). Aquarius (zodiacal sign of January)

Bound Print (Italy)

Print (France)

Design for wall's decorations. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century. Dimensions: 8 x 11 in. (20.3 x 28 cm). Date: 1700-1780. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Bound Print (France)

Diebitsch Carl von (1819-1869), Villa, Cairo. () (Without dat.): ceiling design on the 1st floor. Pencil on cardboard, 29.6 x 31.9 cm (including scan edges) Diebitsch Carl von (1819-1869): Villa, Kairo ()

Palazzo dei Conservatori, Ionic capital, elevation (recto) Palazzo dei Conservatori, Ionic capital, plan and projection (verso) early to mid-16th century Drawn by Anonymous, French, 16th century French. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Ionic capital, elevation (recto) Palazzo dei Conservatori, Ionic capital, plan and projection (verso). early to mid-16th century. Pen and brown ink. Drawings

Unidentified, Ionic capital, elevation, front and side (recto) Unidentifed, Ionic capital, section, detail; Ionic capital, elevation, detail (verso) ca. 1540-60 Drawn by Anonymous, French, 16th century French. Unidentified, Ionic capital, elevation, front and side (recto) Unidentifed, Ionic capital, section, detail; Ionic capital, elevation, detail (verso) 362593

Design for the Decoration Scheme of a Wall ca. 1700-1740 Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century Italian Design for the decoration scheme of a wall, with a door. The decoration scheme is made up out of architectural elements that could either be executed in high relief or in trompe l'oeil fresco painting. The consoles, volutes and cartouches that make up the scheme are executed in a late Baroque style, suggesting a dating in the first half of the eighteenth century.. Design for the Decoration Scheme of a Wall 365690

Robert Adam, 1728-1792, British, Headfort House, Ireland: Ceiling of the Eating Parlor, between 1771 and 1775. Graphite, pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Design for a Chandelier 19th century Anonymous, French, 19th century French. Design for a Chandelier 362084

Decoration designs for the Schauhaus in the Kunsthistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna I, by Carl von Hasenauer, pencil on paper, 2nd half of 19th century.

'Design of a Console for a Clock (two projections)'. France, Before 1715. Dimensions: 35,5x41,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Gilles-Marie Oppenort.

Elevation of a Sofa and Chair, Graphite on cream wove paper, Horizontal rectangle. At left, the right half of the sofa, supported by the legs of a lion whose head is at the front of the upholstered arm. The upholstered back is framed by mouldings with halves of palmettes at their ends shaped as two horizontal heart forms, the outer being shorter than the inner ones. The point of the outer palmette is fastened to a post consisting of leaf scrolls and palmettes. At right, an upholstered chair shown from the front, its back supported by discs with lion masks standing upon calyces. Its frame is polyangular with curved sides., Rome, Italy, 1815-30, furniture, Drawing, Drawing

Print (France)

Unidentified, Ionic capital, elevation (recto) blank (verso) early to mid-16th century Drawn by Anonymous, French, 16th century French. Unidentified, Ionic capital, elevation (recto) blank (verso) 362592

Design for a wall cabinet with étagère in an indoor functioning, Anonymous, 1796 drawing paper. ink. watercolor (paint) pen / brush ornamental cupboard. decorative furniture

Design for a Chandelier. Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century. Dimensions: sheet: 15 15/16 x 15 3/8 in. (40.5 x 39.1 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Tafelfontein, c. 1830 - c. 1850 Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral) pen Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral) pen

Schneider Hugo (1841-1925), figures and ornaments (without date): View. Pencil on transparent, 20.4 x 32.2 cm (including scan edges) Schneider Hugo (1841-1925): Figuren und Ornamente

Design for a baptismal font, with a top view and two variants of a front view, anonymous, c. 1810 Paris paper. ink. graphite (mineral) pen

Three photo productions of a print and drawings of architectural elements, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Left (185) a print of Corinthian and composite column base, center (186) a drawing of a part of a round arch, right (187) a drawing of a torsing female figure and fantasy ornaments. Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print base (~ column, pillar). arch, archivolt ~ architecture. woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti' Europe

Domus Aurea, unidentified, grotteschi, details (recto) blank (verso) early to mid-16th century Drawn by Anonymous, French, 16th century French. Domus Aurea, unidentified, grotteschi, details (recto) blank (verso) 362615

Design for a vignette with two shaking hands, Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries (1874-1953), 1884 - 1952 drawing paper. pencil shaking hands, 'dextrarum junctio'

Design for wallpaper or chimney, Abraham van Strij (I), 1763 - 1826, draughtsman: Abraham van Strij (I), 1763 - 1826, paper, brush, h 263 mm × w 424 mm

Three photo productions of drawings of ceiling decorations by Bernardino Poccetti, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Left (24) and Right (22) a ceiling painting with a woman with a staff, center (23) a detail of a bow with cassettes. Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print drawing, sketch. (decorated) ceiling Europe

Design for a Ceiling Decoration (with a Parrot), Sir James Thornhill, 1675-1734, British, undated, Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 7 3/8 x 8 1/4in. (18.7 x 21cm) and Mount: 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (26 x 29.2 cm), architectural subject, balustrades, ceiling, design, festoons, figures (representations), parrot, putti, silhouettes

Design for a Frieze, Pencil, pen and ink on paper, Horizontal rectangle showing entablature with consoles below the cornice. In the frieze, festoons are supported by candelabra. Above them, a terrine and a roundel with flaming heart at center. At left, a half drawn mitre, book and archbishop cross rod. At right, above a suggested pilaster, a vase with cornucopia., Italy, early 19th-mid- 19th century, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

Design for a Cabinet with Glass Side Doors and Porcelain Plaques. Artist: Anonymous, British, 19th century. Dimensions: sheet: 5 7/16 x 7 in. (13.8 x 17.8 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Wrought Iron Balcony. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 23 x 30.5 cm (9 1/16 x 12 in.). Medium: pen and ink and watercolor on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Al Curry.

Cast Iron Window Grille. Dated: 1937. Dimensions: overall: 38.5 x 51 cm (15 3/16 x 20 1/16 in.). Medium: graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Austin L. Davison.

GSELL-Laurent workshop. Album n ° 4; stained glass project for Ménétéol on Sancerre; Three spans window: scenes from the life of Sainte-Hilaire. Pencil and photography. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Album Numero 4, pencil, window three travees, menetreol on Sancerre, project of stained glass, photography, scene of holy life

Crest of a chair, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, Upper row: at left, a pedestal of a kind stands upon the upper part of the door frame. It has at the front an ovoidal medallion with a figure, and on top the tiara upon the crossed keys. Center: the escutcheon stands upon a base, upon which garlands drag. On top are the keys and the tiara, Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, furniture, Drawing, Drawing

Design for the foot of a candlestick or candlestick, c. 1864 - c. 1894 Paris tracing paper. deck paint. pencil brush Chandelier, a candlestick

Mantlepiece Design with Mirror. Artist: Anonymous, British, 19th century. Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Attributed to John Carter, 1748-1817, British, Basso-relievos in the Groins of the Undercroft of St Stephen's Chapel, ca. 1781. Graphite and pen and black and brown ink on three sheets of slightly textured, moderately thick, white laid paper pasted together.

Drawing, Design for One Quarter of a Ceiling; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, traces of graphite on light green paper.; 20 x 15.3 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.)

Two photo productions of drawings of ceiling decorations by Bernardino Poccetti, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Above (25) a surface division for a ceiling painting, below (26) a decoration with a globe centrally. Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print drawing, sketch. (decorated) ceiling. armillary sphere, skeleton celestial globe Europe

Print (France)

Vestigia delle Terme di Tito. Sordino decoration in room 25. Carlone, Marco (1742-1796), graphic artist, Smuglewicz, Franciszek (1745-1807), draughtsman, cartoonist, Brenna, Vincenzo (1745-1820), draughtsman, cartoonist, Manna, Pietro (17..-18..), publisher

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812-1852, British, St. Marie, Newcastle on Tyne: Designs for Side-Screen, 1851. Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Print (France); Print Maker: Pierre Claude Delagardette (French, 1745 - 1792)

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, Design for Ceiling Decoration., Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

Cabinet-making: a tapestry frame (top), and a music-stand (below). Wood engraving.

Monogram of the Mother of God in rich lily ornamentation, sketch for an album of St. Marys Exhibition; verso: drawing of two lily twigs. Ruszczyc, Ferdynand (1870-1936), draughtsman, cartoonist

Quast Ferdinand von (1807-1877), Mosque Eski Djouma/Djami in Saloniki/Thessaloniki (without Dat.): Details: View of column chapter with acanthus ornamentation, floor plan, cut, with dimensions (presumably according to Charles Texier and Richard P. Pullan, XLI. . Pencil on transparent, 41 x 29.4 cm (including scan edges) Quast Ferdinand von (1807-1877): Moschee Eski Djami, Thessaloniki

James Bruce, 1730-1794, British, 1 of 2 finished drawings of Arch at Hydra and a double page of details, undated. Graphite, pen and black ink, red pencil on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper.

Print (France)

Six Designs for Decorated Plates 1845-55 Alfred Henry Forrester Alfred Crowquill British. Six Designs for Decorated Plates 394814

Drawing (Italy); pen and brown ink with brown wash and traces of graphite support: off-white laid paper

DECORACION DEL TECHO DEL SALON DE SESIONES DEL PALACIO DEL CONGRESO - GRABADO SIGLO XIX. Author: RIBERA CARLOS LUIS. Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-ARCHIVO. MADRID. SPAIN.

Print, Design for an Andiron; Designed by Jean François Forty (active 1775 - 1790); Print Maker: Augustin Nicolas Foin (French, 1726-c. 1759); Published by Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); France; etching and engraving on laid paper

Seeling Heinrich (1852-1932), Hotel Deutscher Hof, Berlin (1894-1894): Ceiling view of the Great Hall. Photo on paper, on cardboard, 27.1 x 33.1 cm (including scan edges) Seeling Heinrich (1852-1932): Hotel Deutscher Hof, Berlin

Print, Frame or Cornice Design; Designed by Richard de Lalonde (French, active 1780-96); Print Maker: Augustin Nicolas Foin (French, 1726-c. 1759); Published by Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); France; etching on off-white laid paper

Drawing with Seven Designs for Firearms Ornament 1806 Jean-Francois Lucas These seven designs are original studies made by the inventor and naturalist Jean-Francois Lucas for a pattern book of firearms ornament in the neoclassical or Empire style. The twenty-two total sheets comprising this pattern book were issued in installments between 1807 and 1808. The signed sheets were executed by two little-known engravers, Rennesson, who did the majority, and Ruhierre (possibly Edme Jean Ruhierre, born 1789).Pattern books of firearms ornament were published in Paris from the early seventeenth century to the third quarter of the eighteenth century and were instrumental in spreading French designs to artists and gunmakers across Europe. The Lucas pattern book continued that tradition and appears to be the only firearms pattern book published during the Napoleonic period. The original design drawing, beyond its rarity, is also of great interest because of the inscription on its reverse, in which

Kabinet, c. 1830 - c. 1850 Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral) Paris tracing paper. graphite (mineral)

Print (France)

Architectural elements with figures, dogs, and corn. Río, Antonio del. Prints. 1822. General Research Division. Mayas , Antiquities, Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico), Corn, Dogs

Project for a painting Ceiling 1700-1780 Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century Italian. Project for a painting Ceiling 365532

French Crown, Paris, Chéreau, Jacques-François, Lalonde, Richard de, Berthault, 4e Cahier de l'Oeuvre D Cahier de Bordures à the use of Sculpture &c, with their Profiles, Frame with floral motifs and tulips, verso - stamped, An ornamented frame with floral motifs and tulips., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 215 mm, width 345 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1784 - 1785, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1742-10-14 - 1794-05-16, publisher, uitgever van privilege

Print (France)

Print, Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions; Designed by Jacques Vauquer (French, 1621 - 1686); France; engraving on laid paper

Design for candelabra ..

Two Designs for Mantels in the Adam Style 18th century Anonymous, British, 18th century British. Two Designs for Mantels in the Adam Style 363085

Album n � 1, stained glass project: decorative pattern Gsell-Laurent workshop. Stained glass project: decorative pattern. Pencil and Gouache.

GSELL-Laurent workshop. Album n ° 4; stained glass project for Lourdes; Single span window: delivery of the laws of the law to Moses, the appearance of the Virgin in Bernadette Soubirou. Ink, wash and watercolor on a photograph. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Album Numero 4, Virgin Apparition, Lavis, Fenetre, Lourdes, Glass Project, Table of Law, Sainte, Watercolor

Paul Miller (as an artist): Various ornaments

Lucien Verbeke, Iron Railing, 1935 1942 Iron Railing

Ink and feather drawing on paper of the Hermesvilla in Vienna XIII by Carl von Hasenauer, dated 1883, showing architectural details and structural layout.

Print (France)

Drawing, Motif for Decorative Design; Walter Shirlaw (American, b. Scotland, 1838-1909); USA; graphite and black crayon on paper; 25.5 × 19.5 cm (10 1/16 × 7 11/16 in.) Mount: 26.3 × 20.3 cm (10 3/8 × 8 in.)

Frans Standard, conquered in the Battle of Oudenaarde, 1708, 1713 - 1720 A French standard, conquered at the Battle of Oudenaarde in 1708. In the book with drawings of French banners, standards and timpani, conquered during the Spanish War of Succession (1701-1713). Northern Netherlands paper writing (processes) / drawing A French standard, conquered at the Battle of Oudenaarde in 1708. In the book with drawings of French banners, standards and timpani, conquered during the Spanish War of Succession (1701-1713). Northern Netherlands paper writing (processes) / drawing

Album # 2; Stained glass project for Saint Aubin on Gaillon: Decorative Reasons Gsell-Laurent workshop. Album # 2; Stained glass project for Saint-Aubin-sur-Gaillon: Decorative motifs. Pencil, watercolor and gouache.

Sir James Thornhill, 1675-1734, British, Design for a Ceiling Decoration (with a Parrot), undated. Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

A mixed media drawing by Marie Lippert-Hoerner combining pencil, watercolor, and gold paint to depict a decorative ornament, showing form, pattern, and composition.

Pewter Tankard. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 28.6 x 37.9 cm (11 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 7 1/4" high; 3 1/2" in diameter. Medium: pen and ink and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Harry Goodman.

Print (France)

Vignette with sitting woman and two portraits. Sitting woman, flanked on either side by portraits of a man and woman. Also studies of architectural details. Leaf 3 recto from a sketchbook with 58 sheets.

Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects. Artist: Workshop of Charles Percier (French, Paris 1764-1838 Paris); Workshop of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (French, Pontoise 1762-1853 Paris). Dimensions: 15 11/16 x 10 in. (39.8 x 25.4 cm). Date: ca. 1800-1850. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ceiling design for a house on the rue Velezai second half 19th century Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise French. Ceiling design for a house on the rue Velezai 384779

Design for Metal Frame, Johann Alois Seethaler, 1796 - 1835, Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, Rosette and palm-leaf motifs in the center of each side. The cresting is composed of facing swans that terminate in vegetal arabesques, flanking an urn of grapes. The motif of the base is in the center, leaf arabesques, with seated amorini kissing swans at the corner., 1825-35, metalwork, Drawing, Drawing

Design of an Architectural Monument (Tomb). 1850-80 Anonymous, Italian, 19th century Italian. Design of an Architectural Monument (Tomb). 365412

Print, Design for a Quarter of a Ceiling; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768); Germany; etching and engraving on off-white laid paper; Platemark: 31.2 x 26.8 cm (12 5/16 x 10 9/16 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

Tabl. VIII View of frieze and panels in: Building designs Hummitzsch, H. (fl. 1833 1854)

Design for Interior Ornament, unknown artist, undated, Pen and brown ink on slightly textured, thin, brown laid paper, Sheet: 12 7/8 × 7 inches (32.7 × 17.8 cm), architectural subject, design, interior decoration, ornament, Rococo

Vestigia delle Terme di Tito. Decoration Carlone, Marco (1742-1796), Smuglewicz, Franciszek (1745-1807), Brenna, Vincenzo (1741-1820), Manna, Pietro (17 ..- 18 ..); after 1776 (2nd edition of black and white) (1776-00-00-1801-00-00);Rome, Sas-Zubrzycki Jan, collection, Vestigia delle Terme di Tito, 1776, Illustration, archeology, antiquity, purchase (provenance)

Four tables, stacked; Several school sweets / plusieurs Menuiseries. Four tables stacked. The four rectangular tables are shown from the side. On the side of three of the four tables a mascaron. The print is part of an album.

Design for a Coronet, Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper, Horizontal rectangle. Design for a small crown or tiara. Converging at the center are two branches with alternatively two stems, the upward having two leaves and a round bead, the downward a pearl-like diamond below two small leaves, and two leaves. In the center a lozenge is formed, with a diamond on top, in the center and below., Italy, mid- 19th century, jewelry, Drawing, Drawing

Study for En Tête Vignette in Tacitus Tibère, ou Les Six Premiers Livres des Annales , Book IV 1758-1773 France . Hubert François Gravelot

1/4 Design for a Painted Ceiling, architectural perspective 1700-1780 Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century Italian. 1/4 Design for a Painted Ceiling, architectural perspective 340360

Sofa, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I 1760 Thomas Chippendale British Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate XXXI in the third edition of 1762, but created as early as 1760 according to the Act of Parliament on the print itself.. Sofa, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I. Thomas Chippendale (British, baptised Otley, West Yorkshire 1718-1779 London). 1760. Pen and brown and black ink, brush and gray wash

Guide for Constructing the Letter I; Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish , Hungarian, 1542 - 1600); Vienna, Austria; about 1591 - 1596; Watercolors, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 16.6 x 12.4 cm (6 9,16 x 4 7,8 in.)

Three Studies of an Oriental Relief. Dimensions: overall (approximate): 12 x 18.8 cm (4 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.). Medium: graphite. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JOHN FLAXMAN.

Iron Fireplace. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 23.1 x 30.5 cm (9 1/8 x 12 in.). Medium: pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Thomas Byrne.

A feather drawing by Carlo Caliari, also known as Carletto, depicting a detailed design for a cartridge, emphasizing ornamental and structural elements.

Omlijstingen, Unknown, after Franz Xaver Habermann, 1731 - 1775 print Two rocaille frames with leaf motifs. Publishing number 175. Augsburg paper etching rocaille ornament. ornaments ~ art (+ framing decorations)

Three photo productions of drawings of scales, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Left (316) A bowl with lid, center (317) a gift bowl with Artemis van Ephesus, right (318) a bowl with a female figure. Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print drawing, sketch. dish, plate, saucer Europe

Drawing, Design for diadem; Italy; 1940-86-281

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