Ornate Engravings and Motifs

Stylized ornamental designs featuring elaborate patterns, florals, and pendants, primarily from the late 16th to 17th centuries, rendered in monochrome and intricate detail.

Wilkinson Tracing, Two designs for inlay, 1820. Ink on tracing paper. Designer: George Bullock. Draughtsman: Thomas Wilkinson

Ornamentrand, Monogrammist F (Italië) (attributed to), 1500 - 1599 print Frisian with moresken in a buckle-like form. In between are arabesken. Italy paper engraving foliage ~ ornament - AA - stylized

Heart formation pendentive and eleven smaller motifs, 1619 print The pendentive and smaller motifs are decorated with white tifles and schweifwork on a black surface. paper engraving / etching

Large Pendant, Surrounded by Twelve Small Studs. Dated: 1593. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Daniel Mignot.

Johannes Hanias, Star Embellished with Flowers, 1650 Star Embellished with Flowers

Title Page: Large Pendant, Two Winged Imaginary Figures at Bottom. Dated: 1596. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Daniel Mignot.

Large Pendant, Ornamental Foliage Design. Dated: 1596. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Daniel Mignot.

Albrecht Dürer, Fourth Knot, 7 circular groups of knots with black centers, c. 1506, woodcut on paper.

Drawing, Ceiling Decoration; Designed by James Byres

Wilkinson Tracing, Two designs for inlay, 1820. Ink on tracing paper. Designer: George Bullock. Draughtsman: Thomas Wilkinson

Detail of Stencilled Wall. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 35.5 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ray Holden.

Applique Bedspread. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 44 x 37.4 cm (17 5/16 x 14 3/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mary Berner.

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), pendant (main title), 1907. Graphite on transparent vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

White tile with purple small flowerpot in circle frame with meanders, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Large Pendant, Justice Standing at Centre. Dated: 1593. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Daniel Mignot.

Design for oval edge of dial and six ornaments, 1612 print Leiden (possibly) paper engraving

Design for the Decoration of the Jaw of the Cock of a Firearm ca. 1795-1805 Workshop of Nicolas Noël Boutet French. Design for the Decoration of the Jaw of the Cock of a Firearm 652967

Baum Philipp (1849-1886), color window (without date): window. Tusche watercolor on paper, 18.6 x 10.6 cm (including scan edges)

Bliżej Kultury Unknown, Printing House of Krzysztof Schehedl, Schedl, Mikołaj Aleksander (1644 1708)

Albrecht Dürer, The Sixth Knot (combining seven small systems of knots with black centers), probably 1506 1507 The Sixth Knot (combining seven small systems of knots with black centers)

Wooden stick after 1538 depicting the network of an icosidodecahedron for geometric construction.

Drawing, Design for a Fan Embroidery, Unfinished; France; sharp stylus on oiled paper mounted on black paper; 19.6 × 25.9 cm (7 11/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

Designs for the Decoration of a Percussion Pistol. Culture: Spanish. Designer: Eusebio Zuloaga (Spanish, Madrid and Eibar 1808-1898). Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 17 5/8 in. (34.5 x 44.8 cm). Date: ca. 1847.This sheet and two others in the collection (acc. nos. 2015.99 and 2015.100) are rare examples of finished design drawings for the decoration of firearms and edged weapons created in the workshop of Eusebio Zuloaga, gunmaker to the Spanish monarchs, keeper of the Royal Armory in Madrid, and the most famous Spanish metalworker of the mid-nineteenth century. This sheet records the decoration created for various parts of a highly elaborate cased pair of all-steel percussion pistols with accessories, which was made in the Zuloaga workshops in Madrid or Eibar. The set of pistols was stolen from the Higgins Armory Museum (Worcester, Mass.) in 1978 has never been recovered. These designs, therefore, provide invaluable evidence of the color and beauty of the missing originals. Museum: Metropolitan

Master T.F., French (active probably 16th century), Ornament, engraving

Vase 16th century Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian. Vase 342222

Curtain Panel with Scenes of Merrymaking, 500s. Egypt, Byzantine period, 6th Century. Tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; undyed linen and dyed wool; overall: 144.2 x 57.1 cm (56 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.); mounted: 153.7 x 66 x 3.2 cm (60 1/2 x 26 x 1 1/4 in.).

Jodocus Hondius I after Thomas Talbot (Dutch, 1563 - 1611-1612), Talbot's Rose: A Record of the Knights of the Garter, 1486-1589, 1589, engraving

Cartouche with a flying putto. Draughtsman: Pieter Jansz.. Dating: 1630 - 1672. Measurements: h 65 mm × w 192 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Italian ornament

Blackwork Print with Eight Motifs ca. 1620 Claes Jansz. Visscher Dutch Blackwork print with eight small motifs for goldsmiths work. All motifs appear twice with variations for their decorations. The two motifs in the middle are depicted only once. The print is a copy in reverse after Georg Arnoldt.. Blackwork Print with Eight Motifs 419990

Fragment, Medium: Warp; S-spun linen. Wefts: S-spun linen. S-spun wools Technique: slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping, Monochrome circular medallion showing a centaur in the center surrounded by a variety of animals., 4th-5th century, woven textiles, Fragment

From series of 24 gothic letters with braid: A-I, K-T and V-Z., Letter Q Alphabet (series title), print maker: anonymous, anonymous, publisher: anonymous, Netherlands, (possibly), c. 1600 - c. 1699, paper, engraving, h 57 mm - w 56 mm

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), pendant (main title), 1905. Graphite on transparent vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Trivet. Dated: 1941. Dimensions: overall: 36.5 x 29.2 cm (14 3/8 x 11 1/2 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Sydney Roberts.

Tin Frame. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 35.7 x 25.6 cm (14 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 12 3/4"high; 8 1/4"wide. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Alfonso Mirabal.

Copper engraving print 'Bastoni-Eight' by an anonymous artist, late 15th century, depicting a playing card with baton suit and numerical design elements.

A Greek vase with figures and arabesques in a rectangular frame, Greek vase, draughtsman: anonymous, , 1800 - 1900, paper, brush, pen, h 216 mm × w 194 mm

Match Holder. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 44.3 x 27.6 cm (17 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 5 3/8" wide; 13 1/2" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Chris Makrenos.

The Initial is to the Poem Dreaming the Pale Lilies of My Orchard In: Zygmunt Lubicz Zaleski, On A Narrow Sleep and Storm. Tadeusz Józef Makowski, Warsaw Paris Kraków: Centnerszwer I SKA, 1914, p. 15. Makowski, Tadeusz (1882 1932), Centnerszwer and S ka, Reiff, A. Heymann

Decorative design with two stylized lions, Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874 - 1945 drawing pencil brush other ornament derived from animal forms. beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion

Rectangular purple border tile on white ground with decorated decor, with flowers, leaves, yellow pottery, edge tile wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Ornamental Border Design with Winged Female Figures. Dimensions: overall: 13.5 x 18.8 cm (5 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.). Medium: graphite (and brown wash). Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JOHN FLAXMAN.

Amsterdam, Dupont, Pieter, Derkinderen, Antoon, Fragment of the front of a banknote of twenty-five guilders, verso - stamped, Fragment of a rectangular frame decorated with plant motifs. Top right the number '25'., print, prent, paper money, prints, prenten, height 110 mm, width 95 mm, 1859-12-20 - 1925-11-02, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1910 - 1910, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Dutch, 1870-07-05 - 1911-02-07, print maker, printmaker

Decorative design with an animal ..

Drawing (France)

Lazio Roma Rome Tomb of the Valerii5. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Illuminated letter C in a medieval style

Drevniia zolotiia barmy. (izobrazhenie 1.) Watercolor by Acad. F. Solntsev. Chromolithography by F. Dreher. 1849 - 1853, Moskva, Tip. A. Semena. Additional, Old golden shoulder mantle. Art, Russian, Chromolithographs

Herman Bader, Iron Holder, c 1937 Iron Holder

Bound Print (France)

Strack Heinrich (1841-1912), ceiling fields in Mantua (without date): cover decoration. Ink, pencil watercolor, white -raised on cardboard, 37.7 x 30.5 cm (including scan edges) Strack Heinrich (1841-1912): Deckenfelder, Mantua

Ornamental Vignet, 1884 - 1957 wood (plant material)

Warsaw. Rosette in the coffer of the ceiling of the palace chapel in the Royal Łazienki Park - front view and cross section in the scale of 1:2. Sztolcman, Władysław Roman (1873-1950), draughtsman, cartoonist

Drawing, Design for Ceiling; Designed by Chas A. Busby; England

Minton Floor Tile. Manufacturer: Minton & Co

An Alhambra vase, Hispano-Moresque ware. Vaso aribico. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Modern o Story, Florence, 1829.

From series of 24 gothic letters with braid: A-I, K-T and V-Z., Letter L Alphabet (series title), print maker: anonymous, anonymous, publisher: anonymous, Netherlands, (possibly), c. 1600 - c. 1699, paper, engraving, h 56 mm - w 55 mm

Master BHM, Ornament Ornament

Henry Swinburne, 1743-1803, British, One of Four Sketches, of Ceilings, in the Vatican Gallery, 1777 to 1778. Waercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, mounted on, moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.

Suffolk Latch. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 27.9 x 22.9 cm (11 x 9 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and goauche on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Regina Henderer.

Drawing, Design for a Book Cover; Designed by Alice Cordelia Morse (American, 1863-1961); USA; brush and gouache on paper; Mount: 19.2 x 12.7 x 0.1 cm (7 9/16 x 5 x 1/16 in.); 1943-33-1-14

Roundel. Coptic; Egypt. Date: 201 AD-500 AD. Dimensions: 21.2 × 20.5 cm (8 1/4 × 8 in.). Linen and wool, tapestry weave. Origin: Egypt. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Bit. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 35.8 x 26.7 cm (14 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Edward Jewett.

Album Of Frames

Drawing, Design for a brooch; Designed by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi (Italian, active 1762 - 1794); Italy

Decorative design. Draughtsman: Carel Adolph Lion Cachet. Dating: 1874 - 1945. Measurements: h 145 mm × w 88 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), knots (main title), 1902. Graphite. Ink on block sheet. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Sebald Beham (German, 1500 - 1550), Three Medals with Coats of Arms, engraving

Decorative ceramic tile rosette with lattive and foliage pattern in the hallway of the Green Mosque, or Mosque of Mehmed I, at Bursa. Turkey, made in Iznik, circa 1424. Mosquee Verte de Brousse. Rosace dans le couloir dentree. Isnik vers 1424. Pochoir (stencil) handcoloured lithograph from Alexandre Raymonds Faience Decorative de la Vieille Turquie, Decorative Pottery from Ancient Turkey, Editions Albert Morance, Paris, 1927.

Drawing, Design for Gate; Designed by William Hunt Diederich (American, b. Hungary, 1884-1953); USA; pen and black ink, graphite on paper mounted on ribbed paper; 9 x 21 cm (3 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Sixteen European coins; European coins. Sixteen European coins, shown in three columns - one column of 6 coins and two columns of 5 coins. This print is part of a series of ten prints with representations of coins brought into circulation between 1522 and 1629 in Europe, mainly in Germany and Italy. The front and rear are shown side by side of each coin, connected by a cartouche with the letters AR (Argentum - Silver) or AV (aureum - gold). The silver coins cover the first nine blades and a part of the tenth leaf, which also shows mainly gold coins.

Design for a pulpit, mid-late 18th century, (1943). Creator: Ignatz Günther.

Wood Engraving. Vignette., Engraving and etching, A trophy of classical arms. Two wreaths are included., Europe and USA, 1800-1830, Wood Engraving. Vignette.

Three Brooches with Winged Snakes at Left and Right and Winged Griffins at Bottom. Dated: 1596. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Daniel Mignot.

Seventeenth century sign from Küthya, Theo Nieuwenhuis, 1876 - 1951 drawing paper. ink pen dish, plate, saucer. container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase. work of applied art (+ other non-European art developments)

Picture Frame. Dated: 1940. Dimensions: overall: 34.2 x 24.5 cm (13 7/16 x 9 5/8 in.) Original IAD Object: Approx: 13"long x 10"wide. Opening 3 1/2" x 2". Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Harry Mann Waddell.

Tile

Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Vignette with geometric shapes, print, prints, height 44 mm, width 44 mm, Dutch, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, papier, houtgravure

Greek Ornament and Etruscan Ornament

Band design for: poets of this time, c. 1899, Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries (1874-1953), in Or Before 1899 drawing paper. ink. pencil brush

Copper engraving by Telman von Wesel depicting a scene titled Capeline Four, created around 1500.

Drawing, Design for a Buckle; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on white laid paper; 9.4 x 11.6 cm (3 11/16 x 4 9/16 in.)

Blackwork Print with a Ring Bezel and Horizontal Panel at Center Flanked by Vertical Fillets and Curved Motifs. Artist: Hans de Bull (German, active 1592-1604). Dimensions: Sheet: 2 1/16 × 2 5/8 in. (5.2 × 6.6 cm). Date: 1592-1604.Blackwork print with a three-pronged bezel above a horizontal panel at center, flanked by small vertical bezels and pair of inward-curving motifs below. All of the motifs are in a Schweifwerk pattern. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Woodcut wooden stick by Hans Springinklee from 1512 showing the horoscope of Emperor Maximilian I according to Johannes Stabius, with zodiac signs and astrological details.

Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card, Stencil-colored woodblock print, Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards., Florence, Italy, 17th century, Playing card, Playing card

Trivet. Dated: c. 1941. Dimensions: overall: 35.4 x 24.4 cm (13 15/16 x 9 5/8 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Glenn Wilson.

Calico Printing Block. Dated: c. 1941. Dimensions: overall: 40.7 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.) Original IAD Object: 6 1/4" long; 1 1/4" thick; 3 1/4" wide. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George File.

Decorated Initial G in Red with Conventional Flower from a Manuscript 1301-1400 Europe. Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf on vellum .

Design for a Circular Ceiling Decoration 1750-1899 Italy. Watercolor, with pen and black ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper . Unknown Florentine

Knot with White Disk, 1505-1507, Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528, Woodcut, Germany, 16th century

Rectangular edge tile in purple with sling of leaves, flowers and twisted snake with scales and fin, edge tile wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Eleven rectangular border tiles in purple with serpentine pattern of leafy wanched bird to the right bunch of grapes (1-6) leaves flowers and twisted snake with scales and fin (7-11).

Hauer, Johann Thomas, Paris, Desseins de la Mode neuve au Gout antique, IV Cahier des Serruriers, Smeedwerk, verso - stamped, Three designs for wrought iron with leaf and flower motifs., print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 227 mm, width 158 mm, Hungarian, 1748 - 1820, print maker, printmaker, 1781 - 1781, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by

Goldsmith's Ornament in Square. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: M. Christollien.

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara Museo Civico di Schifanoia98. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD--NEGATIVES PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Théorbe, in or before 1828 One of 103 designs for marqueterie from ribbons -hung musical instruments in round medallions, intended for the set of chairs made by Van Doren for the large room of the Prince of Orange's palace in Brussels in 1828. Brussels paper. ink. graphite (mineral) trophy, i.e.: decorative arrangement of symbolic or typical objects ~ ornament. lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo Royal Palace

Playing Card, Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card; stencil-colored woodblock print; 1909-22-4-26

Master AD, Ornament Ornament

Drawings of mosaics, Grand Masters Palace built in the 14th century by the Johnnite Order, Fortress and Palace for the Grand Master, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Old Town, Rhodes Town, Greece, Europe

Tadeusz Kosciuszko; Łopaciński, Jan Nikodem (1747-1810); 1810 (1810-00-00-1810-00-00);

'16th Century', 1862. Artist: Unknown.

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