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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: 1920s
La Perruque d'argent (Juffermans 6), Van Dongen, Kees van Dongen
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Van Dongen, 1925. Published by Henri Floury, Paris; printed by Pierre Dumont, Pa...
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Circa 1920 original poser by Gaspar Camps : Élégante au chapeau
Located in PARIS, FR
Gaspar Camps, a prominent Spanish poster artist, became a leading figure in the world of graphic design during the early 20th century. His works are a perfect reflection of the evolv...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Original Impermeaili Moretti Italian art deco vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Italian poster: Impermeabili Moretti by Leopoldo Meticovitz. Archival linen-backed original Italian vintage poster IMPERMEABILI MORETTI. This pre-art deco poster is in v...
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1920s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled (Nude with Horse)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Nude with Horse), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 10 in pencil. Number 10 of Volume 1, a series of 10 ...
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Amolago (Aglaonema) Plant: 17th Century Botanical Engraving by H. van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 17th century engraving of a plant entitled "Amolago" by the Dutch botanist Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 16 from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' (Garden of Malabar), published in Amsterdam in 1686 by Johann van Someren. The engraving depicts the Amolago plant, a large leafed plant, possibly corresponding to the present day aglaonema plant. Rheede's 19th century publication featured illustrations of exotic plants and fruits labelled with script in the upper right corner in Latin, Malay, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus is believed to be the earliest comprehensive published work on the flora of Asia and the tropics. The 17th century treatise featured important illustrations of 740 plants of the region, including Indian medicinal plants. The engraving is printed on 17th century laid, chain-linked paper. The sheet measures 14.75" high by 17.25" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. There are a few tiny spots and there is minimal irregularity of the left edge of the paper where the print was previously bound in the 17th century publication. The print is otherwise in very good condition. There are additional Rheede botanical engravings from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' publication that are listed on my 1stdibs storefront and online website. These would make for an impressive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of two or more of the prints. Hendrik Adriaan van...
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Late 17th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

(after) Amedeo Modigliani "Nu sur le divan"
By Amedeo Modigliani
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the painting). Printed in 1926 at the Leon Marotte atelier and published in an edition of 1000 by Editions des Quatre Chemins. Image size: 4 3/4 x 7 7/8 inch...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ crucified between the two thieves: oval plate, 1648
Located in Torino, IT
Christ crucified between the two thieves: oval plate, 1648 Original Etching. Bibliography: Bartsch, 79; Hind 173; Biörlund, 41-2; White & Boon, B79. (mm. 163x131). Wonderful evidence...
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1640s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Japanese Original Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Japanese Original Woodblock Print Harunobu Suzuki (né Hozumi) (Japanese, 1724 - 1770) Presented in a black mat. Mat: 16"H x 12"W Paper: 12"H x 9"W I...
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18th Century Edo Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

Jo Mora's 1928 "Carte" of San Diego, Very Rare Pictorial Map
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jo Mora's 1928 "Carte" of San Diego, Very Rare Pictorial Map Size: 28 x 22.5 in (71.12 x 57.15 cm) Every good condition for it's age Originally came folded in envelope for mailing....
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1920s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

16th c. woodcut map - Tabula Asiae Vlll
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1488-1652) ASIAE TABVLA Vlll 1540 (45) Woodcut from Munster's edition of Geographia Universalis, Basel, Henri Petri. 1545 edit...
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16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy. 18th century architectural view engraving
By Ferdinando Ruggieri
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Facciata del Palazzo Reale de Pitti' (Florence) Etching with engraving by Ferdinando Ruggieri (1691 - 1741). From 'Scelta di architetture antiche e moderne della città di Firenze'...
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Early 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Etching

Original Vini di Lusso Italian wine vintage poster 1922
By Plinio Codognato 1
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, Italian, Vini di Lusso lithograph vintage poster for fine wines. The Italian Society for Superior Wine. The image of a satyr (or Bacchus) getting ready to eat a group ...
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1920s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

'George Washington Bridge (Under Construction)' — 1920s New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'George Washington Bridge' (under construction) also titled 'The Cables That Hold it All', etching, 1928, edition unknown. An uns...
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

CALIFORNIA VISTA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 – 1974) CALIFORNIA VISTA, 1923 Aquatint signed and titled in pencil. 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Sheet 11 x 14 inches. Good condi...
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1920s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

London Bridge, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'London Bridge' Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington. Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl London, 1780-1822) was an eng...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Le Gladiateur - Lithograph by Giorgio de Chirico - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by De Chirico in 1929, and belonging to the famous suite "Metamorphosis". Hand signed and numbered 57/100. Ref: A. Ciranna, Giorgio de Chirico. Catalogo delle o...
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Still Life - Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is a vintage offset print, realized in 1929 reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi. Very Good conditions.
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Cicero, Ancient Roman, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Cicerone' (Cicero) Copper-line engraving by C Gregory after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image. Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Ita...
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Mid-18th Century Renaissance Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Earl Waldegrave coat of arms
Located in Middletown, NY
London: c 1750. Steel engraving on cream wove paper, 5 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (sheet) (142 x 162 mm), margins trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered handling wear, creasing and edge nic...
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Mid-18th Century English School Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Etching

Mythological Roman Alphabet Leaf with Celtic Motif, Letter X
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving printed in black ink on hand-made, thin-laid paper, 3 5/8 x 3 5/8 inches (84 x 84 mm), 3/4 inch margins. In excellent condition, printed 19th century.
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17th Century Italian School Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Engraving

Les Pavots Noirs - Phototype after Odilon Redon - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Les Pavots Noirs is a phototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923...
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1920s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Original King of Caprice vintage Russian silent movie lithographic poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original silent movie poster: King of Caprice (translated from Russian.). Archivally linen-acked in very good condition. Images shown are of the exac...
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1920s Constructivist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Printed in 1928 and published in Paris in a limited edition of 1100 for Abel Hermant's "Bigarrure". Plate size: 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches (130 x 88 ...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Jeux de boules - Near the City Gate
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 6 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (175 x 275 mm), thin margins. Some minor surface soiling and paper tape residue in four areas along the top sheet edge, verso, othe...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Etching

Le Charlemagne (Foret de Fontainebleau)- 1991
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of Eugène Bléry's etching Le Charlemagne depicts the Forêt de Fontainebleau, a renowned forest located south of Paris. The print is produced by La Calcographie du L...
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Late 17th Century Renaissance Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Banana Plant: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 2. Mauze, Baradis-feigen", p...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Joen and Deborah - Etching by Jan Pieters Saenredam - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Joen and Deborah is an old master artwork realized in 17th Century by Jan Pieters Saenredam. Black and white etching. Good condition. Signature on ...
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17th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'Spirit of Buffalo' — Urban Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Spirit of Buffalo', etching, edition not stated, c. 1927. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'Spirit of Buffalo 522', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 12 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches. ABOUT THE ARTIST Etcher, painter, and architect, Anton Schutz was born in Germany in 1894. He studied at the University of Munich, earning a double degree in mechanical engineering...
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1920s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'Delaware River Bridge' — Mid-Atlantic Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Delaware Bridge' (Delaware, New Jersey), etching, c. 1927. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with skillfully wiped plate tone, on BFK Rives, cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (302 x 225 mm); sheet size 15 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (403 x 311 mm). ABOUT THIS IMAGE The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, originally named the Delaware River...
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1920s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Flowering Morning Glory: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Convolvulus Major Folio Subrotundo Purpureg Albo, B. Convolvulus Major...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Mezzotint

En Espagne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En Espagne Pochoir (silk screen) printed in colors Signed by the artist in pencil lower right The artist won a gold medal in Paris in 1925 for his pochoirs Condition: Excellent Image...
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1920s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Screen

J. Kosbü Optik by Theodor Paul Etbauer, Modernist optometry lithograph c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Expressionist lithographic poster by Theodor Paul Etbauer for J. Kosbü Optik, a German optometry practice. Etbauer elegantly merges art and advertisement with a simple, striking desi...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Flowering Spurge: 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Esula seu Tithyinalus Africanus SpinosusCera Effigie, B. Esula seu Ti...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Capital Letter C - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter C is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Untitled (Profile of an African Woman)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, 'Untitled (Profile of a Black Woman)', lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 14 in pencil. Number 14 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publishe...
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1920s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Genip Tree & Fruit: An 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Geniculata Wieder Kraief, B. Genipa seu Ganipaba". It is plate 531 in...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo
Located in New York, NY
Castello Sant Angelo from "Vedute di Roma" by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 2nd Roman state, 1754. Etching on laid paper with a watermark of a Fleur-de-Lys in a double circle with CB a...
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1750s Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper

Sacelle male, de la cote de Coromandel /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800) Title: "Sacelle male, de la cote de Coromandel" (Plate 949) Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux *Signed by Martinet in the...
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1770s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Cultivated Pea Plants: An 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "a. Pisum Minus sine Putamine, b. Pisa Indicum". It is plate 819 in Weinma...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Captain Mazin Rides, and the Marquis Gives the Lesson /// Equestrian Horse Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Cavendish (English, 1593-1676) Title: "Captain Mazin Rides, and the Marquis Gives the Lesson" (Plate 17, Page 76) Portfolio: Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser ...
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1730s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching, Intaglio

Campi Phlegraei - View of a section of a part of the cone of Astruni, Italy
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Campi Phlegraei - View of a section of a part of the cone of Astruni taken at the entrance of this volcano Copper-line engraving with gouache. 1776. ...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Rococo design for a gate, German mid 18th century etching
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rococo design for a gate, etching, by Joseph Baumann (active 1740-1760), circa 1750. Published by Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756). Similar works ar...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Etching

Vitraux in Four Sheets Puzzle of Life by Salvador Dali
Located in New York, NY
Vitraux in Four Sheets, Puzzle of Life, 1974, by Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Lithograph on paper 52 ¼ x 55 ½ inches unframed (132.715 x 140.97 cm) 53 ½ x ...
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1770s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Papaya and Moth Metamorphosis: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Maria Merian
Located in Alamo, CA
This exquisite hand-colored 18th century folio-sized engraving of a papaya plant and moth metamorphosis is plate 64 from Maria Sibylla Merian's publication '...
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Early 18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Portrait of an African Woman — 1920s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Portrait of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 13 in pencil. Number 13 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publis...
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1920s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A Calvary Skirmish - by Jan van Huchtenburg
Located in Middletown, NY
Haarlem: c1700. Mezzotint on watermarked laid paper, 11 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches (290 x 462 mm), thread margins. In good condition with expert repairs at the right corners, and upper-lef...
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18th Century Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Mezzotint

Figure assise, le bras droit appuye sur une table - Etching by H. Matisse - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Seated figure is an original modern artwork realized by Henri Matisse in 1929. Etching on Chine appliquè on Arches Velin paper. Original title: Figure assise, le bras droit appuye ...
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Thomas Maitland Cleland, Signed 1929 Lithograph by Rockwell Kent
Located in Long Island City, NY
Thomas Maitland Cleland by Rockwell Kent, American (1882–1971) Date: 1929 Lithograph, signed in pencil Image Size: 9.5 x 7 inches Size: 12 x 10 in. (30.48 x 25.4 cm)
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A Group of Twelve 18th Century engravings of Parrots.
Located in London, GB
Edwards, George Parrots, a group of twelve. London, For the author, at the College of Physicians in Warwick-Lane. 1747-1751 Decorative plates for “A Natural History of Birds” one ...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Engraving

Hebdomeros - Lithograph by Giorgio De Chirico - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
"Hebdomeros" is an hand-signed colored lithograph realized by Giorgio de Chirico in 1929. This is an edition of 100 prints, and is part of the series "Metamorphosis: Suite de Six Lithographies", editions des Quatre-Chemins, 1929. Very good condition. Numbered. Edition, 88/100. Bibliography: A. Ciranna, " G. De Chirico: Catalogo dell’Opera Grafica 1921-1969 ”, Roma, edizione " La Medusa ", 1969, p. 33, n. 13. The widely renowned precursor of Surrealism was the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). De Chirico’s definitely ambiguous artworks of cityscapes are the most celebrated examples of a movement called Pittura Metafisica , or Metaphysical Painting.
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

RED ROCK CANYON
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869 – 1958) RED ROCK CANYON ca 1936 Color block print. Signed and titled in pencil. 10 x 11” on fibrous paper, sheet 13 3/8 x 15...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

Woman in hat and stockings, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original 1922 collotype lithograph of a well-dressed woman in a hat and stockings, created from Gustav Kilmt’s handzeichnungen (sketch). Published by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vien...
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1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

The Gothic Spirit
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gothic Spirit (also called A Gargoyle, A Gothic Spirit). 1922. Etching and stipple. Fletcher 120. 11 5/8 x 7 (sheet 15 1/4 x 11 1/4). Gargoyle Series #8. Edition 130. Illustrated...
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Drypoint

Pompelmus (Grapefruit): An Early 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Volckamer
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an early 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of the anatomy of grapefruit by Johann Christoph Volkhamer, entitled "Pompelmus (Grapefruit), Der Herra Sitz und Burg...
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Early 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Thisbe and Pyramus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical Myth engraving, 1768
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Nicolas de Launay after Charles Monnet (1732-1808). Thisbe, finding the dead body of Pyramus, throws herself on a sword. Fro...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Flowering Peppermint Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Pulegium Cervinum, Pseudo Pulegium Struthium, Pulegium Regium", depicting flowering Peppermint, Weld and Pennyroyal plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. There are subtle creases in the right upper corner, very common with Besler's relating to the drying of the paper during its production. The right margin is thinner than the others. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
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1640s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Figure with Their Head Leaning Against...- Etching by Castiglione - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Castiglione (Il Grechetto) in 1640 ca. From the Series Small Studies of Heads Good condition. Ref. Bartsch 46.43
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17th Century Baroque Prints and Multiples

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Etching

original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1926 on Montgolfier wove paper in an edition of 1260 for "Le The du Capitaine Sogoub" and published in Paris by Au Sans Pareil. The artist's name...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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