18th Century British School Tondo Portrait of a Gentleman, Oil on Canvas
Located in Elkhart, IN
Rather than requiring an entire wall, it could hang above a small chest in a library, tuck naturally into a layered salon-style gallery wall, or sit among landscapes, sporting pictur...
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Healing of a Possessed Man & Calling of the Apostles, Pieter Mortier, ca. 1700
Located in Langweer, NL
The background of trees and sky frames the gathering in a timeless, pastoral landscape. Together, these engravings highlight Christ’s dual role as healer and teacher, affirming both...
Paper
Rideau Canal Locks and Haliburton’s Residence – Pair of Canadian Views, ca.1850
Located in Langweer, NL
Consider a double mat with an inner accent in green or charcoal to draw out the natural tones of the landscape scenes. Technique: Steel engraving Maker: Lemaitre, France, c. 1850
Paper
Scenic Views of Inseln Bay, New Zealand, from the Astrolabe Voyage, circa 1836
Located in Langweer, NL
Keywords: Inseln Bay, New Zealand, Astrolabe voyage, European exploration, coastal landscape, settlements, natural beauty, historical engraving, 19th-century print, colonial interact...
Paper
Antique map of Brecknockshire, Wales by Creighton & Walker, c.1831–1840
Located in Langweer, NL
Yet despite their simplicity, the maps retain a visual appeal, particularly through the careful hand-coloring of the boundaries and the crisp engraving of the landscape. For collect...
Paper
Dutch Conquest of Rio Grande, Brazil (1633) Under Prince Frederick Hendrick
Located in Langweer, NL
The scene prominently features the Portuguese fortress situated at the mouth of the Rio Grande River, surrounded by numerous ships, likely part of the Dutch fleet involved in the con...
Paper
Monuments of Easter Island: An Early European View of the Moai Statues, c.1785
Located in Langweer, NL
The foreground shows human remains, adding to the mysterious atmosphere of the island, while in the background, we see large, weathered stone structures and figures moving along the ...
Paper
1888 New Mexico Map – Railroads, Counties & The Land of Enchantment
Located in Langweer, NL
A double mat, in ivory with a warm earth-tone accent such as terracotta, can highlight New Mexico’s desert landscapes. Technique: Engraving Maker: Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 1888
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1888 Antique Map of Oregon – Railroads, Counties & Native Indian Reservations
Located in Langweer, NL
A double mat, perhaps ivory with a green accent, can draw attention to Oregon’s natural landscapes and rich geography. Technique: Engraving Maker: Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 1888
Paper
Portraits of Nobility from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Published circa 1790
Located in Langweer, NL
He was particularly famous for his engravings of landscapes and historical scenes. If his name is associated with these engravings, it suggests that he was the engraver responsible f...
Paper
Amours sur des Nuages Jouant avec des Colombes
By (After) Francois Boucher
Located in Milford, NH
French artist Francois Boucher (1707-1770) was well known for Rococo portrait, landscape and mythology painting, engraving, and palace decorating.
Canvas, Oil
18th Century, Italian Neoclassical Inlay Demi Lune Chest of Drawers
By Ravelli
Located in IT
Ignazio Ravelli often favored inlays with imaginative architectural views — capriccios of ruins and landscapes — inspired by the engravings of Giambattista Piranesi, Ferdinando Galli...
Marble
Historic View of Sugar Milling in 17th Century America, published in 1673
Located in Langweer, NL
The scene likely captures a moment of interaction between European explorers and indigenous peoples, set against a backdrop of the American landscape, which is rendered with attentio...
Paper
Antique Map of New Zealand, 1903, Featuring the North and South Islands and Alps
Located in Langweer, NL
Hand-colored in soft pastel shades to delineate regional boundaries, the map traces major cities, towns, rivers, and mountain ranges, including an inset illustration of the Southern ...
Paper
Elegant Avian Diversity: Illustrations from Buffon's Ornithology, c.1780
Located in Langweer, NL
For a more natural look, a walnut or oak frame can bring out the earthy tones in the birds and landscapes. Technique: Hand-colored engraving Maker: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de B...
Paper
Serene Vista of Messina and its Strait: An Engraved Jewel, circa 1800
Located in Langweer, NL
Birmann (indicated by 'pinx.' for 'pinxit,' meaning 'painted by'), captures the tranquil beauty of the region with a delicate touch and attention to the lush landscape. The masterfu...
Paper
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Set of Two Framed French Engraved Art Prints
Located in Guaynabo, PR
It also depicts an 18th century group of young couples playing blind-man bluff in a pastoral landscape. These two engravings are part of a group of four ones that are known by The fo...
Paper
Rosersberg Palace and Gardens near Stockholm in the Baroque Splendor of 1695
Located in Langweer, NL
The formal gardens, as seen in the etching, are meticulously laid out in a symmetrical pattern, which was a common feature in baroque landscape design. The engraving provides a valu...
Paper
Striking Antique View of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, in Kerala, India
Located in Langweer, NL
The city is shown in the background, with truly exceptional detail of the buildings, elephants, palm trees, and landscape. This engraving is based on Braun & Hogenberg's view of 1572.
Paper
Tom Tower, Christ Church, St Aldate's, Oxford by Hill after Pugin for Ackermann
By Rudolph Ackermann
Located in London, GB
Louis Mercantile Library wrote that: "Ackermann excelled in the creation of landscape and architectural engravings. He created beautiful illustrations of the city of London, his ado...
Aquatint
$308
St Sepulchre, The Round Church, Cambridge interior after Pugin for Ackermann
By Rudolph Ackermann
Located in London, GB
Louis Mercantile Library wrote that: "Ackermann excelled in the creation of landscape and architectural engravings. He created beautiful illustrations of the city of London, his ado...
Aquatint
$377
St Sepulchre, The Round Church, Cambridge exterior after Pugin for Ackermann
By Rudolph Ackermann
Located in London, GB
Louis Mercantile Library wrote that: "Ackermann excelled in the creation of landscape and architectural engravings. He created beautiful illustrations of the city of London, his ado...
Aquatint
Swedish Grace and Grandeur: The Aquatint Legacy of Ulrik Thersner, 1825
Located in Langweer, NL
This work aimed to be a modern counterpart to Erik Dahlbergh's "Suecia antiqua et hodierna," a significant 17th-century work that showcased Sweden's historical and contemporary lands...
Paper
Original Hand-Colored Antique Bird Print of The Northern Gannet, ca.1770
Located in Langweer, NL
His work is varried: from illustrating plays and operas to drawing and engraving landscapes, portraits of notables and scenes of court life at Versailles.
Paper
Antique Handcolored Bird Print of a Dove Named Le Colombi-Galline, Male, 1800
Located in Langweer, NL
was a French engraver, and a student of Longeuil. He made landscapes, flower and animal engravings. Jacques Louis Peree (1769-1832) was an engraver, mainly known for the superb engra...
Paper
Original Handcolored Bird Print of a Male Turtle Dove, 1801
Located in Langweer, NL
was a French engraver, and a student of Longeuil. He made landscapes, flower and animal engravings. Jacques Louis Peree (1769-1832) was an engraver, mainly known for the superb engra...
Paper
Original Antique Handcolored Bird Print of a Male Laughing Dove, 1803
Located in Langweer, NL
was a French engraver, and a student of Longeuil. He made landscapes, flower and animal engravings. Jacques Louis Peree (1769-1832) was an engraver, mainly known for the superb engra...
Paper
Original Handcolored Print of a Male Oriole, 1802
Located in Langweer, NL
was a French engraver, and a student of Longeuil. He made landscapes, flower and animal engravings. Jacques Louis Peree (1769-1832) was an engraver, mainly known for the superb engra...
Paper
Original Hand-Colored Antique Bird Print of Tanager Bird, ca.1770
Located in Langweer, NL
His work is varried: from illustrating plays and operas to drawing and engraving landscapes, portraits of notables and scenes of court life at Versailles.
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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