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WORLD MAP - Planisphaerium Terrestre Sive Terrarum Orbis... 1696
WORLD MAP - Planisphaerium Terrestre Sive Terrarum Orbis... 1696

WORLD MAP - Planisphaerium Terrestre Sive Terrarum Orbis... 1696

By Carel Allard

Located in Santa Monica, CA

) Engraving, 20 ½ x 23 ½”, sheet 21 x 24 1/8". A stunning double hemisphere World Map with sphere projections

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17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

New Map of the Terraqueous Globe - WORLD MAP - CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND
New Map of the Terraqueous Globe - WORLD MAP - CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND

New Map of the Terraqueous Globe - WORLD MAP - CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND

By Edward Wells

Located in Santa Monica, CA

EDWARD WELLS (British 1667- 1727) A NEW MAP of the TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE - according to the latest Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into CONTINENTS and OCEANS, 1700-01 (Sh...

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Early 1700s Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Engraving

Child Labor Day GO!

Child Labor Day GO!

By Mash Buhtayduss

Located in New Orleans, LA

old abandonments. Photographs printed on canvas are combined with mixed media elements including

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Mixed Media

Nursery Grime
Nursery Grime

Nursery Grime

By Mash Buhtayduss

Located in New Orleans, LA

old abandonments. Photographs printed on canvas are combined with mixed media elements including

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

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Old World

Jorge MacchiOld World, 2007

Unavailable

H 29.53 in W 21.66 in

Old World

By Jorge Macchi

Located in Tbilisi, GE

Edition size: 50 Signed

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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Double Hemisphere Old World Map Print,  Matted & Framed
Double Hemisphere Old World Map Print,  Matted & Framed

Double Hemisphere Old World Map Print, Matted & Framed

Located in Plainview, NY

A double hemisphere old world map print. The map is a reproduction of the original of the 1788 Mapa

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20th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper

Bloodthirst
Bloodthirst

Bloodthirst

By Mash Buhtayduss

Located in New Orleans, LA

old abandonments. Photographs printed on canvas are combined with mixed media elements including

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Mixed Media

The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World
The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World

The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World

By Bernard Picart

Located in Roma, IT

Little later hard cover on half brown calf with angles, 6 nerves spine with title and number of volume engraved in gilt. Frontispiece in red and black, engraving vignettes on titles...

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1730s Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Engraving

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Original Antique Hand-colored World Map with or without Frame, '1696'
Original Antique Hand-colored World Map with or without Frame, '1696'

Original Antique Hand-colored World Map with or without Frame, '1696'

$4,329Sale Price|20% Off

H 28.75 in W 33.67 in D 1.58 in

Original Antique Hand-colored World Map with or without Frame, '1696'

Located in Langweer, NL

Antique world map titled 'Mappe-Monde dressee sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences (..)'. Beautiful original antique world map. Relief shown pictorially. In...

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Antique Late 17th Century French Maps

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Paper

AMERICA
AMERICA

John SpeedAMERICA, 1626-76

$4,250Sale Price|50% Off

H 15.125 in W 20.5 in

AMERICA

By John Speed

Located in Santa Monica, CA

IMPORTANT AMERICAN MAP - ONE OF THE FIRST TO SHOW CALIFORNIA as an ISLAND JOHN SPEED (1552-1629) AMERICA - With Those Known Parts In That Unknown Worlde (sic), 1626-(76) (Burden 2...

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1620s Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Engraving

16th c. woodcut map - Tabula Asiae Vlll
16th c. woodcut map - Tabula Asiae Vlll

16th c. woodcut map - Tabula Asiae Vlll

By Sebastian Münster

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 edition of Ptolemy. Shows ancient Sc...

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16th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

AMERICAE - Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
AMERICAE - Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

AMERICAE - Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

By Abraham Ortelius

Located in Santa Monica, CA

ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (1527 - 1598) AMERICAE SIVE NOVI ORBIS, NOVA DESCRIPTIO, 1587 (1603) (Van Den Broecke 11, Burden 64; Schwartz & Ehrenberg 69) Engraving. A very good, well printed...

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16th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Engraving

!6th c. VIEW OF FLORENCE
!6th c. VIEW OF FLORENCE

!6th c. VIEW OF FLORENCE

By Sebastian Münster

Located in Santa Monica, CA

SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1488-1552) FLORENCZ - -- FIGUR UND GELEGENHEIT DER EDLEN UND HOCH BERHÜMPTEN STATT FLORENTZ. . c 1550 (Fauser, #3925.) Woodcut from Münster's., Cosmographei, ode...

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16th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis / Mappe Monde
Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis / Mappe Monde

Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis / Mappe Monde

By Homann Heirs

Located in New York, NY

This map was printed from a copperplate engraving in 1746. The printed image size is 18.25 x 21.75 inches (46.3 x 55.2 cm) plus margins. An attractive double hemisphere map of the w...

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18th Century Other Art Style More Prints

Materials

Engraving

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Old World Prints For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of old world prints available on 1stDibs. Finding the perfect Old Masters or Contemporary examples of these works for your space is difficult — today, we have a vast range of variations and more on offer. These items have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. If you’re looking to add old world prints that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of brown, beige, gray, orange and more. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Shane Russeck, Carel Allard, Philipp Clüver, Bernard Picart and Stafford Ives Veale produced especially popular works that are worth a look. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in archival pigment print, pigment print and engraving. If space is limited, there are small old world prints measuring 10.63 across, while our inventory also includes pieces up to 90 inches across to better suit those in the market for large iterations.

How Much are Old World Prints?

The average selling price for old world prints we offer is $1,600, while they’re typically $239 on the low end and $8,000 for the highest priced.

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.)

Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.

Questions About Old World Prints
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 29, 2024
    To tell if an old painting is a print, use a magnifying glass to look at its surface up close. A real painting will have visible brushstrokes left behind by the artist. A print will usually have a smooth surface and may look like it's made up of tiny dots, depending on the printing process used to produce it. If you're still unsure about your piece, a certified appraiser or knowledgeable art dealer can assist you. Explore a collection of paintings on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 9, 2024
    The list of old prints that may be worth money is really too long to name. The artist, number of prints in the series, age, historical significance and other characteristics of the print all contribute to the potential value. With older pieces, the condition is also a concern, and any flaws may reduce the potential selling price. Some artists whose prints are often sought by collectors include Albrecht Dürer, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Rembrandt and Frederic Remington. If you're interested in learning how much particular prints you own may be worth, consult a certified appraiser or experienced art dealer. Find a large collection of art prints on 1stDibs.