Those...Plants
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Soft-ground etching from three copper plates printed in sepia, with hand colouring in watercolour (a yellow wash background) and green gouache.
Color, Etching
$286
Funeral Ceremony of the king and a monastery of Talapini - 1746-1751
By Gianfrancesco Pivati
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Ceremony of the king and a monastery of "Talapini" Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XXIX Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim:...
Etching
Atlantic City
By David Rosenthal
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Rosenthal (American 1876-1949) Title: Atlantic City Year: c.1930 Medium: Color Etching Image (Plate mark) size: 9 x 13 inches Sheet size: 9.75 x 14 inches Signat...
Etching
Mr. B. Promoted to Lieutenant and first putting on his uniform.
By George Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
From, The Progress of a Midshipman, Exemplified in the Career of Master Blockhead 1860 (plate 7) Etching with handcoloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 8 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (2...
Watercolor, Etching
"Improvidence"
By Daniel Garber
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Another of Garber’s many talents was etching. He created a series of approximately fifty different scenes, most of which are run in editions of fifty or less etchings per plate.
Etching
Master B. Finding things are not exactly what he expected-
By George Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
From, The Progress of a Midshipman, Exemplified in the Career of Master Blockhead 1860 (plate 2) Etching with handcoloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 1835. 210 x 290 mm; 8 3/...
Watercolor, Etching
Restaurant in Mott Street
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in New Orleans, LA
He was a master technician in the field of etching, reworking many of his plates to get the exact feeling he was seeking.
Drypoint, Etching
Stranger in England, St. Lawrence, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
[Fletcher 336] English Series No. 8; Miniature Series No. 25 This image was used in part to illustrate David Strang Etching: The Printer Proves the Plate Print, II: 3, 4, October, D...
Handmade Paper, Etching
14829 East 14th Street
By James Torlakson
Located in Burlingame, CA
Edition of 3' (one of three) Hand Colored Aquatint Etching with the plate (image itself) 10 x 15 inches.
Watercolor, Etching, Aquatint
Une rue de Rouen
By Maxime Lalanne
Located in Middletown, NY
Copper plate etching with drypoint on cream laid paper with a partial heraldic watermark, 11 x 8 inches (280 x 204 mm), full margins.
Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Village in France
By David Rosenthal
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Rosenthal (American 1876-1949) Title: Village in France Year: c.1927 Medium: Color Etching with aquatint Image (Plate mark) size: 13.5 x 10 inches Sheet size: 14...
Etching, Aquatint
La Pianiste (epuise)
By Etienne Ret
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Etienne Ret (French, 1900-1996) Title: La pianiste (Epuise) Year : Circa 1970 Medium: Color etching with aquatint Image (plate mark) size: 19 x 15.5 inches Framed size:...
Etching, Aquatint
$3,825
DH in Hollywood (David Hockney) Howard Hodgkin colorful abstract painting framed
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Paper 8.4 x 11 in. / 21.3 × 27.9 cm Soft-ground etching (from one plate) with hand coloring in watercolor (orange-red, brown, and green) and oil pastel (red and blue), printed on off...
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Etching
Shere Mill Pond
By Sir Francis Seymour Haden, R.A.
Located in Missouri, MO
Shere Mill Pond, No. II (large plate). 1860. Etching and drypoint. Schneiderman 37.v/ix. 7 x 13 1/8 (sheet 10 3/4 x 16 3/8).
Drypoint, Etching
"Birmingham Meeting House"
By Daniel Garber
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Another of Garber’s many talents was etching. He created a series of approximately fifty different scenes, most of which are run in editions of fifty or less etchings per plate.
Etching
"Spring Valley Willows"
By Daniel Garber
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Another of Garber’s many talents was etching. He created a series of approximately fifty different scenes, most of which are run in editions of fifty or less etchings per plate.
Etching
"Old Barney"
By Daniel Garber
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Another of Garber’s many talents was etching. He created a series of approximately fifty different scenes, most of which are run in editions of fifty or less etchings per plate.
Etching
"Don't Wine, " Original Surreal Serigraph by Paula Schuette Kraemer & Bill Weege
By Paula Schuette Kraemer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Paula also does photogravures - a method by which a photographic image can be transferred to an etching plate - into her work. The photorealistic images combined with Paula's style o...
Mixed Media
"Rembrandt's Mother with the Black Veil"
By (After) Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Henderson, NV
Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 6 1/2 x 6 inches (165 x 150 mm).
Photogravure
"Abraham's Sacrifice"
By (After) Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Henderson, NV
This heliogravure has a platemark surrounding the image and has the appearance of an actual etching. Signed in the plate (not hand-signed).
Photogravure
"Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House"
By (After) Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Henderson, NV
This heliogravure has a platemark surrounding the image and has the appearance of an actual etching. Signed in the plate (not hand-signed).
Photogravure
$329Sale Price|20% Off
Rare Engraving of NY Celebrations by the Moors Muslims in Bengal, India, 1708
Located in Langweer, NL
This very scarse attractive original old antique print / plate / etching / engraving originates from: 'Wouter Schoutens, Reys-Togten naar en door Oost-Indien ...'
Paper
Pair Grand Tour British Regency Engravings, After William Lodder, Edward Orme.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This rare pendant set includes the titled works "Infancy" and "Protection," executed with masterful stipple and line-etching techniques. Both plates were engraved from original drawi...
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
Rue de la Poissonnerie, Montivilliers, by A. Briend de Maignon, circa 1875
Located in Langweer, NL
The Rue de la Poissonnerie, the street of the fish market, runs through the old heart of the town. This is an original etching, drawn directly on the plate by the artist, with a cri...
Paper
$1,200 / set
French Mid Century Mirror and Console Set
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
Below that is the original mirror plate featuring reverse etching along its top and sides.
Aluminum, Brass
Mooncatcher
Located in Deddington, GB
This began as a rough sketch which the artist then drew onto a grounded zinc plate, using an etching needle. An aquatint was added to achieve the deep tone.
Paper, Color Pencil
River Landscape with Boatman and Cows after Corot, Photogravure, circa 1880
Located in Langweer, NL
This is a photogravure, made by etching a copper plate from a photograph of the painting and printing it in ink.
Paper
"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, WPA, American Modernist, New York State
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
There were sixteen etchings displayed. The remaining plates depicted scenes in Saxony, Germany, while five of the plates were based on scenes in Rondout, New York.
Oil, Board
French Engraving of an Eagle from the Description de l'Egypte, J. Ces. Savigny
By C. de Savigny
Located in Downingtown, PA
The plate is an etching and engraving with stipple work, printed in black and finished by hand in watercolor and bodycolor.
Paper
Chinese Qing-Dynasty Stone Prosperity Drum, 19th Century
Located in Chicago, IL
Between the folds of "fabric" are imitation ring handles, carved in shallow relief with hollowed recessions and floral lock plate etchings. Additional Dimensions: Diameter of Seat:...
Limestone
$3,500
Georges Rouault, color aquatint, rque de l'etoile filante-Circus of the Shootin
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
MoMA Art Institute of Chicago — Madame Carmencita, Plate Nine from Cirque de l’étoile filante, color etching and aquatint.
Aquatint
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
Throne, Signed Acrylic Abstract Expressionist Painting by Richard Martin Ash
By Richard Martin Ash
Located in Long Island City, NY
My first memorable art experience as a freshman in art school revolved around seeing an etching being printed. The plate and paper appeared as one thing on the left side of the press...
Paper, Acrylic
Amsterdam’s Elegant Herengracht: Historic Canal Scene, circa 1870
Located in Langweer, NL
Once the etching is complete, the plate is cleaned, inked, and carefully wiped so that only the etched lines hold the ink.
Paper
Monumental Antiquity: Giovanni Battista Piranesi Engraving of a Candelabrum
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Downingtown, PA
Because the text still calls him "Monsignor" and mentions the Pope as if he is currently reigning, art historians date the actual etching of this specific copper plate to between 176...
Paper
Collision Transit Study 3, abstract encaustic collagraph by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
PARK LIFE, Art Print, Folk, Affordable art, Landscape, Abstract
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
Park Life is an etching drawn on a copper plate and etched with acid.
Paper, Screen
Untitled - Lithograph by Ernesto Treccani - 1980s
By Ernesto Treccani
Located in Roma, IT
Etching made on zinc plate on Magnani-Pescia paper 310 gr/m2, paper size 50cm x 70cm, round engraving diameter 31cm hand coloured.
Lithograph
Christopher Murphy Jr. - Christ Church, Savannah Print
Located in Savannah, GA
Christopher Murphy, Jr (American, 1902-1973) An antique book plate after Murphy’s etching of Christ Church Episcopal circa 1930. 6 ½ by 5 ½ inches 11 ¼ by 10 ¾ inches
Glass, Wood, Paper
$560Sale Price|20% Off
Contour Study 5, encaustic monoprint by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
$600Sale Price|20% Off
Sigma Self Energy 15, encaustic monoprint by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
$500Sale Price|33% Off
Volcano, encaustic monoprint by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
$600Sale Price|20% Off
Remnant Topography 7, encaustic monoprint by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
$400Sale Price|20% Off
Calving 5, encaustic monotype referring to glaciers melting, by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
Collision Transit Study 3
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
Ghidini 1961 Thimble Ice Bucket in Copper by Studio Job
By Ghidini 1961, Studio Job (Job Smeets & Nynke Tynagel)
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
The here ice bucket is then represented by a gigantic thimble with etchings. Materials: Copper-plated aluminium.
Copper
Collision Transit Study 5, unique abstract monoprint by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
Collision Transit Study 6, unique abstract monoprint by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
Georges Lavalley (1868-1902) Engraving titled "Alma Mater" after V Demont Breton
Located in Argenteuil, IDF
Title: "ALMA MATER" engraved by Georges-Henri Lavalley (1868-1902), winner of the 1st Grand Prix de Rome in 1890 in intaglio, and dated 1899, after the painting by Madame Virginie DE...
Paper
Territory Warming #4, abstract encaustic collagraph by Elise Wagner
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
French Engraving Hand Colored Galerie des Modes Costumes Francais, 1779
Located in Vero Beach, FL
It is marked - Le Clerc Delin / Dupin Sculp / Plate 177. Etching is in good condition.
Paper
Academic engraving titled "Baptism in Lower Alsace" after by François Flameng
By François Flameng
Located in Argenteuil, IDF
Dimensions: "Baptème dans la Basse-Alsace" etching: Sheet: 325 x 460 mm - Engraving: 200 x 254 mm - Engraving plate: 250 x 300 mm Engraved signature: Léop.
Paper
$240Sale Price|20% Off
SeeFoam No2 (pattern, organic, abstract, black and white, monotype)
By Karin Bruckner
Located in New York, NY
Monoprint w/Chine Collé and Embossing On white BFK Printmaking Paper Handpulled by Artist on Etching Press Edition : Unique Plate Size: 3x3” Paper Size 8” x 10”
Paper, Monoprint
$240Sale Price|20% Off
RiverFlow (pattern, organic, abstract, black and white, monotype)
By Karin Bruckner
Located in New York, NY
Monoprint w/Chine Collé and Embossing On white BFK Printmaking Paper Handpulled by Artist on Etching Press Edition : Unique Plate Size: 3x3” Paper Size 8” x 10”
Paper, Monoprint
$320Sale Price|20% Off
Fall Contours
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
About the Process: Encaustic collagraph "monoprints" can be created using various mark making techniques such as dry point etching directly into the plate and through the wax texture...
Encaustic, Monoprint
French Engraving Hand Colored Galerie des Modes Costumes Francais, 1779.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
It is marked - Dessiné par le Clerc / Crave par Pelicier / Plate 151 Etching is in good condition.
Paper
$240Sale Price|20% Off
SeeFoam No 1 (pattern, organic, abstract, black and white, monotype)
By Karin Bruckner
Located in New York, NY
"UrbanFlow" Monoprint w/Chine Collé and Embossing On white BFK Printmaking Paper Handpulled by Artist on Etching Press Edition : Unique Plate Size: 3x3” Paper Size 8” x 10” 2023
Paper, Black and White
$240Sale Price|20% Off
SeeFoam No3 (pattern, organic, abstract, black and white, monotype)
By Karin Bruckner
Located in New York, NY
"SeeFoam No3" Monoprint w/Chine Collé and Embossing on white BFK Printmaking Paper Handpulled by Artist on Etching Press Unique Plate Size: 3x3” Paper Size 8” x 10” 2023
Paper, Monoprint
$328Sale Price|20% Off
CoverYourTracks (pattern, organic, abstract, black and white, monotype)
By Karin Bruckner
Located in New York, NY
"CoverYourTracks" Monoprint w/Chine Collé and Embossing On white BFK Printmaking Paper Handpulled by Artist on Etching Press Edition : Unique Plate Size: 4x4” Paper Size 9 x 9” 2017
Paper, Black and White
$240Sale Price|20% Off
OceanFlow (pattern, organic, abstract, black and white, monotype)
By Karin Bruckner
Located in New York, NY
"OceanFlow" Monoprint w/Chine Collé and Embossing On white BFK Printmaking Paper Handpulled by Artist on Etching Press Edition : Unique Plate Size: 3x3” Paper Size 8” x 10” 2023
Paper, Black and White
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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