Mare Atlanticum - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Technique is etching and they are hand watercolored, with co...
Etching
Polus Antarcticus - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Technique is etching and they are hand watercolored, with co...
Etching
Epirus Albania - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Technique is etching and they are hand watercolored, with co...
Etching
Freti Canalis - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Technique is etching and they are hand watercolored, with co...
Etching
Nova Zemla - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Technique is etching and they are hand watercolored, with co...
Etching
Anemogra Phica - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Technique is etching and they are hand watercolored, with co...
Etching
Barbarga Etching, Hand Watercolored, 1650, Modern Style, Unframed
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Technique is etching and they are hand watercolored, with co...
Etching
Surgical Instruments and Treatments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
By Lorenz Heister
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments and Treatements is part of the suite realized by Lorenz Heister in the series of Institutiones Chirurgicae, Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750. Etching on pap...
Etching
S.Juan de Puerto Rico - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
From Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Technique is etching and they are hand watercolored, with co...
Etching
'Bridge, Venice' — Turn of the Century American Impressionism
By John Marin
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
While abroad, he made finely-nuanced impressionist etchings of Paris, Amsterdam, and Venice, which were among his first works to find a market.
Etching
A Wooded River Landscape; Entry into the Wood
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Middletown, NY
A magnificent forest scene with lush, vast foliage along a brook by a master of the Dutch Golden Age. Amsterdam: c1650. Etching on cream laid paper, 5 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (130 x 147 ...
Laid Paper, Etching
The Three Oaks
Located in Middletown, NY
A well-inked impression of Ruisdael's finest Haarlem-period etching. Amsterdam: Franz van Wyngaerde, 1649. Etching on buff cream laid paper, 5 1/8 x 6 inches (130 x 153 mm), the ful...
Laid Paper, Etching
Shipping on the Maas, Rotterdam in the background.
Located in Middletown, NY
This image depicts four vessels, from left to right: spritsail-rigged inland vessel, an English yacht, an English frigate, and a boeier. Amsterdam: 1701. Etching on lightweight l...
Laid Paper, Etching
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Arcadian riverscape with different figures by a tree [Arcadisch rivierlandschap]
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful Arcadian landscape after Johannes Glauber. Amsterdam: 1721. Etching on handmade laid paper with an intact fleur-de-lis watermark. 203 x 275 mm; 8 x 10 7/8 inches, trimm...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Rembrandt van Rijn - Christ Between His Parents, Returning from the Temple -1820
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Dallas, TX
The letter states in part: “In my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, the etching presented to me by Antonio’s Collection and entitled Rembrandt E van RIJM is an authentic Rembr...
Paper
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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