Prints
1620s Antique Prints
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1840s Scottish Gothic Revival Antique Prints
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20th Century American Other Prints
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1970s German Modern Vintage Prints
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Prints
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Mid-20th Century French Prints
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Late 19th Century Antique Prints
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Mid-19th Century Antique Prints
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1620s Antique Prints
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20th Century American Regency Prints
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1810s Antique Prints
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1810s Antique Prints
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1920s French Vintage Prints
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20th Century North American Modern Prints
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Late 18th Century Louis XVI Antique Prints
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1810s Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1810s Antique Prints
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1920s British Art Nouveau Vintage Prints
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Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1840s Antique Prints
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16th Century Antique Prints
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1810s Antique Prints
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1980s Japanese Vintage Prints
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Early 2000s American Modern Prints
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1810s Antique Prints
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1750s Antique Prints
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Early 1900s American Romantic Antique Prints
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1880s Danish Antique Prints
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19th Century British Antique Prints
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1810s Antique Prints
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1880s Danish Antique Prints
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints
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Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Prints
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20th Century Prints
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1990s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1970s American Vintage Prints
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Antique and Vintage Prints for Wall Decor
Prints are works of art produced in multiple editions. Though several copies of a specific artwork can exist, collectors consider antique and vintage prints originals when they have been manually created by the artist or are “impressions” that are part of the artist’s intent for the work.
Modern artists use a range of printmaking techniques to produce different types of prints such as relief, intaglio and planographic. Relief prints are created by cutting away a printing surface to leave only a design. Ink or paint is applied to the raised parts of the surface, and it is used to stamp or press the design onto paper or another surface. Relief prints include woodcuts, linocuts and engravings.
Intaglio prints are the opposite of relief prints in that they are incised into the printing surface. The artist cuts the design into a block, plate or other material and then coats it with ink before wiping off the surface and transferring the design to paper through tremendous pressure. Intaglio prints have plate marks showing the impression of the original block or plate as it was pressed onto the paper.
Artists create planographic prints by drawing a design on a stone or metal plate using a grease crayon. The plate is washed with water, then ink is spread over the plate and it adheres to the grease markings. The image is then stamped on paper to make prints.
All of these printmaking methods have an intricate process, although each can usually transfer only one color of ink. Artists use separate plates or blocks for multiple colors, and together these create one finished work of art.
Find prints ranging from the 18th- and 19th-century bird illustrations by J.C. Sepp to mid-century modern prints, as well as numerous other antique and vintage prints at 1stDibs. Browse the collection today and read about how to arrange wall art in your space.