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Sharing artworks from the Minneapolis Institute of Art's Prints and Drawings department. Not associated with the Minneapolis Art Institute.
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Triumphal Arch of Germanicus, Saintes https://collections.artsmia.org/art/115233/
architectural double archway; trees in background
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Man Leading a Horse https://collections.artsmia.org/art/47178/
Man Leading a Horse
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The Peasant https://collections.artsmia.org/art/68705/
Bound album, p.17
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Iffley Mill https://collections.artsmia.org/art/47286/
Iffley Mill
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Unfinished Landscape https://collections.artsmia.org/art/63128/
light, upside-down image of standing man at L; sketchy trees in background; light shading in foreground at bottom Minnesotans might mistake this for a snow scene, but it is simply unfinished. More curious is the faint upside-down figure of the French writer Honoré de Balzac, apparently etched by Bracquemond’s artist friend Paul Gavarni when at some point he had the copper printing plate. Bracquemond must have begun this landscape thinking he could scrape out the figure or etch over it. But after etching the background and running the inked plate through the press to check his progress, he evidently decided to stop where he was.
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Nialel, from Hortus Indicus Malebaricus (Vol. 4) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/66645/
Nialel, from Hortus Indicus Malebaricus (Vol. 4)
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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She Was Tired of Filling Her Heart with Hopeless Dreams https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43166/
From a suite of four color lithographs. The mat and frame were designed by the artist.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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View of a Courtyard https://collections.artsmia.org/art/9565/
View of a Courtyard
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Landscape with a Fisherman https://collections.artsmia.org/art/53005/
From the cancelled plate.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Snake, Caterpillar, Butterfly, and Insects on Plant https://collections.artsmia.org/art/75548/
Plate 5 Here Merian drew the root of the cassava plant, Manihot esculenta (Crantz). She noted that the Suriname natives grated the starchy root, pressed out the juice, then placed the root on a hot plate and baked it "like a rusk." This process made the root palatable and eliminated (or at least safely reduced) the poisonous compounds. "Should a man or an animal drink the extracted juice cold, he or it dies an extremely painful death," she said. The snake is the Amazon Tree Boa, Corallus hortulanus (Linnaeus); its swollen stomach indicates that it had recently eaten.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Choir of Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8862/
Choir of Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Caterpillars, Butterflies, and Flower https://collections.artsmia.org/art/75551/
Plate 11 When Merian returned home from Suriname in 1701 she was suffering from malaria and mental exhaustion after two years of work in South America. She was not able to incise her own copperplates so the prints could be made for Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamesium, and entrusted this job to a talented team of engravers. They studied the watercolors Merian had completed in Suriname and created intaglio prints using a combination of etching and engraving, such as Caterpillars, Butterflies, and Flower. The images were then hand-colored following Merian's original watercolor. A large group of the original Suriname watercolors are held in the collection of the British Museum in London.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Charles Thomas Haden https://collections.artsmia.org/art/47179/
Charles Thomas Haden
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Alexander Pope https://collections.artsmia.org/art/59132/
Alexander Pope
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The Picnic Excursion https://collections.artsmia.org/art/57450/
"The Picnic Excursion" by Winslow Homer captures a lively scene, showcasing elegantly dressed figures alighting from a horse-drawn carriage. This engraving exemplifies Homer's keen observation of American life in the late 19th century, with attention to social interactions and the leisurely activities of the era.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Doctor Syntax/ Taking Possession of His Living https://collections.artsmia.org/art/77406/
caricature; plate 29
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The Baptism of the Eunuch https://collections.artsmia.org/art/55373/
This artwork, "The Baptism of the Eunuch" by Rembrandt, captures the biblical story of Philip baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch, an event symbolizing inclusion and spiritual awakening. Created with meticulous detail, the etching highlights Rembrandt's mastery in rendering texture and depth, while effectively conveying the narrative's emotional gravity.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Hampton Court Palace https://collections.artsmia.org/art/51805/
Hampton Court Palace
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Woman with Musical Instruments https://collections.artsmia.org/art/19327/
Woman with Musical Instruments
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Le chien buvant dans le ruisseau https://collections.artsmia.org/art/55910/
Le chien buvant dans le ruisseau
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Nude Study https://collections.artsmia.org/art/28251/
Nude Study
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Hillside Woods https://collections.artsmia.org/art/126873/
dense trees with leaves in three different shades of green; bits of blue sky at top, especially in ULC; image has a dark border surrounded by a green dotted line In 1917, the year before Gustave Baumann settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he visited his wealthy friend Lydia Avery Coonley Ward at her western New York estate, called Hillside. The print "Hillside Woods" originated during that trip. Baumann had recently ordered his own small printing press from a Chicago supplier and had it shipped directly to Hillside. He used the same press his entire career. A German émigré who moved to Chicago as a child, Baumann spent a year in Munich in his mid-twenties to learn printmaking. Like German printmakers centuries earlier, he preferred making prints on a manual press. While many of his American contemporaries were following the Japanese method of inking a print (applying paper to the inked block by hand and rubbing the back of the paper to transfer the ink), Baumann liked the consistent impressions he could get by using a press. He was also something of a maverick in his use of oil-based, rather than water-based, inks, which explains how he achieved the forceful blues and greens in these hundreds of tiny, intricately carved leaves.
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Cover for "2 times 5 Bats" https://collections.artsmia.org/art/94766/
from a portfolio containing ten prints, plus one frontispiece and one collaged cover and one pencil Speedy Drawing (79.55)
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Prosit Neujahr (Happy New Year), from the portfolio Gesichter (Faces) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43575/
Plate 17
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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A Group https://collections.artsmia.org/art/18109/
A Group
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM