Engraving Prints and Multiples
Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Etching, Handmade Paper
20th Century Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Etching, Drypoint
1990s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1960s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1930s Outsider Art Engraving Prints and Multiples
Drypoint
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Mid-18th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1930s Modern Engraving Prints and Multiples
Drypoint, Aquatint, Etching
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Early 19th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Handmade Paper
Early 19th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Early 19th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Early 19th Century English School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Handmade Paper
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
20th Century Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Wood
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1910s Engraving Prints and Multiples
Mezzotint, Etching
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving, Handmade Paper, Etching
1970s Surrealist Engraving Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Find Engravings and Other Fine Art Prints on 1stDibs
Art is a smart investment if the print-collecting bug has bitten you. But maybe you’re merely looking to bring art into your home — if so, engravings and other types of fine art prints can help enhance your space while supporting your effort to tie an interior design together.
An engraving is a print made by incising lines into a metal plate with a sharp tool called a burin. After the image is drawn, the plate is inked, wiped clean, and then firmly pressed to paper so the ink remaining in the incised grooves is transferred. Considerable force is required to mark the metal, so the lines made by engraving tend to be stronger than those made through etching, and characterized by gentle tapering. Light and shade have to be created through cross-hatching since the technique is line-based.
Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Francisco Goya are among the Old Masters admired for their engravings, but postwar and contemporary artists have made the most of the technique as well.
Vija Celmins, for example, engraved wood to create her series of ocean surfaces, while Louise Bourgeois, who spoke about the symbolic power of engraving to convert aggression into something useful, revisited the medium throughout her long career. For Jasper Johns, recognized as one of the most innovative, masterful print artists of all time, printmaking was ideal for exploring the ideas of repetition, seriality, patterning, semiotics, order and symbolism that intrigued him. His crosshatch prints (and paintings, for that matter) are a wonderful reference to the engraving process but also a brilliant conceptual update of Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, which Johns subverted again and again.
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