The Mouseion · Works on Paper · Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Dürer’s engravings, Rembrandt’s etchings, Japanese prints, botanical studies and the first photographs. Paper fades in light, so in a real museum these are shown for a few months at a time; here they change monthly too.

Walk inThe whole museum

On the walls this month

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  Le Geant, Champ de Mars — Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) (1820–1910), October 18, 1863, probably printed 1880/89, Gelatin silver printing out paper print
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Sun Rays—Paula, Berlin — Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), 1889, printed 1920/39, Gelatin silver print
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Sheet of Studies and Sketches — Edgar Degas (1834–1917), 1858, graphite, pen and dark brown ink, and watercolor on thick ivory wove paper
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Hand of Man — Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), 1902, printed 1920/39, Gelatin silver print
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Victoria Dubourg — Edgar Degas (1834–1917), c. 1866, graphite
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Italian Family, Chicago — Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), 1910, Gelatin silver print
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Dancing Sailors — Charles Demuth (1883–1935), 1917, watercolor over graphite
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  A Young Man Caressing the Young Hostess — Cornelis Pietersz. Bega (1620–1664), c. 1650, Etching on cream laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Rest on the Flight into Egypt — Bartolomeo Biscaino (1629–1657), n.d., Etching printed in reddish brown on paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Dead Blue Roller — Hans Hoffmann (1545–1592), 1583, watercolor and gouache with touches of gold
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Navicella (recto) — Parri Spinelli (1387–1453), c. 1410s, pen and brown ink (iron gall)
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Head of a Tahitian Woman — Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), 1891, graphite with stumping and graphite wash on parchment
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Arm of Eve — Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), 1507, point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Art Lovers — Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), c. 1863, Gray and black wash, charcoal, and graphite, with watercolor, on cream laid paper
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill — Fra Bartolommeo (1472–1517), c. 1508, pen and brown ink
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Simon Vouet — Robert van Voerst (1599–1641), 1630/36, Engraving in black on cream laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Playground in a Mill Village (Playground in a Tenement Alley), Boston — Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), 1909, Gelatin silver print
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Invocation to Love — Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), c. 1781, Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream laid paper
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Guard Drawing His Sword — Raphael (1483–1520), n.d., Black chalk on tan laid paper, edge mounted on buff laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Captain Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards (an Early Photographer), Taken at the Crimea — Roger Fenton (1819–1869), 1855, Thinly albumenized print
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The cannon 'Mons Meg' at Edinburgh Castle, and a private in the 2nd battalion of Royal Scots who garrisoned the Castle in 1846 — David Octavius Hill (1821–1848), 1846, Salted paper print
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Ideal Pastoral Life — Edward Calvert (1799–1883), n.d., Woodcut on paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Untitled — Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), c. 1910, Gelatin silver print
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Les-Parents-Terribles series: Here is the little Dancer — Paul Gavarni (1804–1866), 1852, Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Drawing Room — François Dequevauviller (1737–1807), 1783, Etching on ivory laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Joseph Sold by his Brothers — Master of the Die (1483–1520), 1533, Engraving, printed in black, on paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago

Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere