Search Demo: Museum Collection

• 

  Drawing, Cypress Trees of Chapultepec, Mexico, March 14, 1892

  Vertical view of a group of trees including the lower portion of an enormous trunk at right and a buttressed wall in the right background. High bottom margin.

• 

  Drawing, Cypress Trees, Chapultepec, Mexico, February 18, 1892

  Horizontal view of a goup of trees shown against a background of a wood. High bottom margin.

• 

  Plaque

• 

  Shawl (Mexico), late 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow shawl of cream colored cotton embroidered at the ends and along the sides in colored silks and paillettes in a leaf and bow-knot design. Scalloped ends of netting…

• 

  Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

  Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.

• 

  Textile (Portugal), 19th century

  Part of cover or curtain, of cotton striped in blue and white with printed designs in stripes. In blue, a vase with flowers; in white, groups of dogs alternating with…

• 

  Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1950

  Holiday huipil made up, front and back, of three strips of undyed cotton cloth banded horizontally at regular intervals with small groups of red and dark blue wool pencil stripes.…

• 

  Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1952

  Everyday huipil made up, front and back, of three lengths of undyed cotton plain weave, joined with a loose embroidered basket weave in colored cottons. A shallow toothed border in…

• 

  Plaque (England), ca. 1777

  Omphale (or Jöle) and frame. Vertical oval plaque of unevenly colored grayish blue solid jasper, with half-draped figure of Ophale in profile, standing on bracket and carrying the lion’s skin…

• 

  Plaque, ca. 1778

  Vertical oval plaque, pale blue solid jasper body with darker slip and white relief showing a youth, nude except for drapery falling from shoulder. He stands in left profile and…