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Klaaver en Riet-Gras, Trifolium & Carex.

Maria Sibylla MerianKlaaver en Riet-Gras, Trifolium & Carex., 1730

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H 7.49 in W 6.03 in

Klaaver en Riet-Gras, Trifolium & Carex.

By Maria Sibylla Merian

Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant

Very rare decorative insect/botanical print with gorgeous hand colouring. Plate: CXXXIV. These are

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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Etching

Abrikoose-boom, Armeniaca.

Maria Sibylla MerianAbrikoose-boom, Armeniaca., 1730

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H 11.26 in W 6.23 in

Abrikoose-boom, Armeniaca.

By Maria Sibylla Merian

Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant

Very rare decorative insect/botanical print with gorgeous hand colouring. Plate: CXIX. The plate

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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Etching

St. Jans Bloemen of Koedille, Buphthalmum.

Maria Sibylla MerianSt. Jans Bloemen of Koedille, Buphthalmum., 1730

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H 7.84 in W 6.26 in

St. Jans Bloemen of Koedille, Buphthalmum.

By Maria Sibylla Merian

Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant

Very rare decorative insect/botanical print with gorgeous hand colouring. Plate: CXXIX. The plate

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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving, Etching

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Botanical Print Plates For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, there are several options of botanical print plates available for sale. Today, if you’re looking for modern editions of these works and are unable to find the perfect match for your home, our selection also includes abstract. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. Botanical print plates available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes gray, beige, brown, white and more. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Dr. Robert John Thornton, Basilius Besler, William Curtis, Henry C Andrews and Georg Dionysius Ehret produced especially popular works that are worth a look. Frequently made by artists working in engraving, paper and paint, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Some botanical print plates are too large for some spaces — a variety of smaller iterations, measuring # 4.44 inches across, are available.

How Much are Botanical Print Plates?

Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — botanical print plates in our inventory begin at $80 and can go as high as $17,376, while the average can fetch as much as $1,000.

A Close Look at Old-masters Art

Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.

The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.

Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.

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Finding the Right Prints And Multiples for You

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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