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Sharing artworks from the Minneapolis Institute of Art's Prints and Drawings department. Not associated with the Minneapolis Art Institute. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 8h

The Times Annex, From 40th Street collections.artsmia.org/art/52158

The Times Annex, From 40th Street

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 10h

Rosier a cent feuilles, from Choix Des Plus Belle Fleurs et des Plus Beaux Fruits collections.artsmia.org/art/73221

Rosier a cent feuilles, from Choix Des Plus Belle Fleurs et des Plus Beaux Fruits

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 13h

Pedal-Mill (Plate I) collections.artsmia.org/art/91497

one of a collection of 15 engravings relating to textile production

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 15h

Judge collections.artsmia.org/art/52660

Judge

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 18h

Whirl of Dance collections.artsmia.org/art/56862

Whirl of Dance

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cats at the Window collections.artsmia.org/art/49811

Cats at the Window

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thomas Haden of Derby collections.artsmia.org/art/48428

Thomas Haden of Derby

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Alchemist collections.artsmia.org/art/9645

It was typical in depictions of alchemists to include a scholar seated at a lectern. In this print, Brueghel inserts a figure on the right side that gestures out at the scene in front of him and draws the viewer's attention to the foolish behavior in his midst. The alchemist works in his makeshift lab as he tries to discover the philosopher's stone, a material that will turn base metals into gold and silver. He is assisted in his pursuits by a fool, who is shown squeezing air from a bellows onto coals in a brazier. The alchemist's wife sits behind the fool and displays her empty purse, a sign that her husband has squandered all that they had in his quest for the philosopher's stone. Through the window we see the eventual outcome of the alchemist's folly as he and his family are welcomed at the poorhouse.

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Le Chant des Morts (The Song of the Dead) collections.artsmia.org/art/6096

125 Lithographs in red of varying sizes, two on cover and 123 for the text; binding: loose in Arches wove wrappers with 2 lithographs on the front and back cover and spine; beige paper-covered protective boards with title panel pasted to the spine; slip case: beige paper-covered slip case

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Untitled (Lake Superior Landscape) collections.artsmia.org/art/127478

abstract landscape with high horizon line; orange sky; blue band (water?) at horizon line; irregular rock formations in tan, orange, purple, blue, black and green
Among the final works Morrison created during his six-decade career, this boldly colored, abstract landscape encapsulates the artist’s creative philosophy and aesthetic vision. From his reliance on Surrealist-inspired automatic drawing techniques and expressive use of color, to the prominent horizon line motif and the theme of Lake Superior as both a symbol and source of spiritual knowledge, this drawing operates as a sort of visual and aesthetic manifesto, and fitting homage to Morrison’s distinguished career.

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Le pillage d'une ferme collections.artsmia.org/art/60256

From a set of 18 etchings

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man with Cane - Alvino Ortega collections.artsmia.org/art/58364

Man with Cane - Alvino Ortega

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yellow Lily and Scarab Beetles collections.artsmia.org/art/9821

plate II

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cairo Street collections.artsmia.org/art/93618

Plate V group of 6 woodcuts matted together; a: people standing behind a railing; b: crowd in a station; c: crowd and animals in front of stairs, in wind and rain; d: people walking behind a curtain being parted by a man in a fez accompanied by a man playing a horn; e: crowd of people with little girl in front; f: faces of crowd with fireworks overhead

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Street of Stairs, Siena collections.artsmia.org/art/51394

Street of Stairs, Siena

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

View of the Chateau of Versailles Showing the Chapel collections.artsmia.org/art/43359

The chapel at Versailles was begun toward the end of Louis XIV's massive construction effort and completed in 1710, just five years before the king's death. Jacques Rigaud, an accomplished illustrator and engraver of city and palace views, animated his architectural prints by populating the foregrounds with images of polite society. Here in the plaza in front of the chateau he depicts fashionable ladies and gentleman promenading and conversing, dogs running about, and two high-ranking visitors arriving in sedan chairs, carried by servants. Such bustling activity at the palace was quite common, as an estimated 1,000 courtiers kept rooms-pied-à-terres-in the chateau, accompanied by some 4,000 attendants. In addition, the staterooms and gardens at Versailles were open to the public, accessible to anyone in proper attire.

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sea Serpents: Tractatus Aristoteles collections.artsmia.org/art/67688

in three parts

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rocky Promontory, recto; Landscape Study, verso collections.artsmia.org/art/9241

Rocky Promontory, recto; Landscape Study, verso

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Portrait of a Woman collections.artsmia.org/art/53200

Portrait of a Woman

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Artist's Mother: Head Only, Full Face collections.artsmia.org/art/121477

head of elderly woman with large white headdress covering hair and ears; pensively looking downward; portion at L seems to be darker compared to grayish tone of other inking
Rembrandt was living at home in Leiden, Holland, when he sat down to etch in front of an easily accessible model, his 60-year-old mother. Old, lined faces would be a lifelong motif for him, but it’s hard to imagine one etched with more delicacy or penetration. The air of introspection may owe to the Dutch tradition of picturing aged people as pious and pondering salvation. When plans to extend the torso didn’t work out, Rembrandt, then age 22, did the unthinkable and severed the plate under his mother’s chin. He was nonetheless proud of the print, dating and signing it as a finished work. His mother is the only verifiable family member he recorded. Rembrandt named his three daughters (two died young) Cornelia, after her.

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fêtes (Celebrations) collections.artsmia.org/art/195

In 1926, Calder moved from New York to Paris, where he met many of the leading members of the European avant-garde, including Hayter, who would found the experimental print workshop Atelier 17 the following year. Calder's interest in printmaking began in earnest during this time, and though he returned permanently to America in 1933, his fascination with modernism and experimental art forms continued throughout his lifetime. Fêtes is a prose poem by French author Jacques Prévert honoring Calder's remarkable achievements as a modern artist. Prévert explained that Calder is a "sorcerer…of happiness," one whose art is a "pleasure of eyes and heart." Prévert was struck by Calder's seemingly effortless process, in which spontaneity, originality, and pure freedom of expression made him unclassifiable. In preparing the illustrations for this project, Calder devised an unconventional technique for printing the brilliantly colored aquatints that accompany Prévert's text. Calder first made a preliminary drawing in color, and then cut sheet metal that had been prepared in aquatint to match the drawing. The various metal forms served as printing surfaces, which were laid out on a press and colors applied. The metal plates were then run through the press, transferring the color to the paper, while simultaneously embossing the sheet.

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Foot collections.artsmia.org/art/128313

sketchy etching of a cartoonish L foot facing L; foot ends just at ankle; pronged structure begins at ankle, resembling prosthetic attachment; stray lines and marks

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Miren que grabes! collections.artsmia.org/art/80373

binding: mottled calf, gilt tooled with a green panel on spine lettered: CAPRICH DE GOYA; endpapers: contemporary Spanish marbled papers
Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos contains layers of meaning that even today challenge the modern viewer. Mia’s copy is a rare presentation proof containing early printings of all eighty images. In the first half, Goya explored themes of superstition, sensuality, greed, and violence with scenes set in Spanish brothels, salons, and prisons. The second half is given over to fantastic images from the artist’s dreams and nightmares. Even though Goya tried to disguise his attacks on Spanish society, he withdrew the set from sale because he had been reported to the Inquisition, a tribunal that ruled with lethal authority.

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Figure with Striped Blouse collections.artsmia.org/art/55437

Figure with Striped Blouse

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Colinet: Unhappy Hour collections.artsmia.org/art/122050

A-frame cottage at R next to winding river at center; high bank to L of river with a tree; heavy foliage behind cottage

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fashion Plate, from La Belle Assemblee collections.artsmia.org/art/78436

Fashion Plate, from La Belle Assemblee

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Intersection collections.artsmia.org/art/58652

Intersection

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

L'Escamoteur, from Cinq Costumes Parisiens collections.artsmia.org/art/76376

L'Escamoteur, from Cinq Costumes Parisiens

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Flesh, Armor collections.artsmia.org/art/58524

Flesh, Armor

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Studies for Costumes for Philip II collections.artsmia.org/art/9014

Studies for Costumes for Philip II

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Crested Jay, with Smilax collections.artsmia.org/art/9818

plate no. 15

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

View on the Orwell, near Ipswich collections.artsmia.org/art/43749

View on the Orwell, near Ipswich

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Woman collections.artsmia.org/art/26185

The Woman

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Blew-Bird collections.artsmia.org/art/9812

plate T47

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nocturne: The River at Battersea collections.artsmia.org/art/52896

second (final) state

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great Crested Grebe collections.artsmia.org/art/76432

Plate LXXIII

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Diverse Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys collections.artsmia.org/art/63794

Title doublesheet engraved dedication 1ff 1 t35 pp. tl. 1ff 70 engraved plates- lengraved vignette

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Erith Marshes collections.artsmia.org/art/48473

Erith Marshes

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Steam Excursion collections.artsmia.org/art/46814

Steam Excursion

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Mule Marie-Jeanne collections.artsmia.org/art/54195

The Mule Marie-Jeanne

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Broad Street, New York City collections.artsmia.org/art/57497

Broad Street, New York City

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Untitled [Girot] collections.artsmia.org/art/9113

Untitled [Girot]

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell collections.artsmia.org/art/51660

St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Showery Day, St. Augustine collections.artsmia.org/art/51160

Showery Day, St. Augustine

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Riverboat Station collections.artsmia.org/art/115224

three men with long poles and other figures on a dock with a ramp; ferry boats in middle ground; low mountains in background

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Five European Views collections.artsmia.org/art/43558

Five European Views

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Le Porte del Dolo (The Locks at Dolo) collections.artsmia.org/art/53668

Le Porte del Dolo (The Locks at Dolo)

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Y aun no se van! collections.artsmia.org/art/80369

binding: mottled calf, gilt tooled with a green panel on spine lettered: CAPRICH DE GOYA; endpapers: contemporary Spanish marbled papers
Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos contains layers of meaning that even today challenge the modern viewer. Mia’s copy is a rare presentation proof containing early printings of all eighty images. In the first half, Goya explored themes of superstition, sensuality, greed, and violence with scenes set in Spanish brothels, salons, and prisons. The second half is given over to fantastic images from the artist’s dreams and nightmares. Even though Goya tried to disguise his attacks on Spanish society, he withdrew the set from sale because he had been reported to the Inquisition, a tribunal that ruled with lethal authority.

MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dance of the Pascola and the Deer collections.artsmia.org/art/13004

Dance of the Pascola and the Deer

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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Horse Crossing a Barrier collections.artsmia.org/art/42253

Album containing 39 lithographs by and after Géricault

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