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The Brasserie Hoffman) a relaxed French location for drinks and small plates)
The Brasserie Hoffman) a relaxed French location for drinks and small plates)

The Brasserie Hoffman) a relaxed French location for drinks and small plates)

Located in New Orleans, LA

This image of a relaxed setting in a typical French brasserie shows a woman in fur, a man reading the newspaper and a waiter serving other patrons. Frank Martin created this color e...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Talon Show (small things may contain grave danger. A single lie can grow + grow)
Talon Show (small things may contain grave danger. A single lie can grow + grow)

Talon Show (small things may contain grave danger. A single lie can grow + grow)

By Carol Wax

Located in New Orleans, LA

Talon Show is a color intaglio created in an edition of 30. This impression is #2 of 30. Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Mezzotint, Etching, Aquatint

Young man looking down to right, fr Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress

Young man looking down to right, fr Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress

By Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on tissue thin laid paper. 4 3/8 x 3 1/16 inches (110 x 78 mm), trimmed at plate mark. A very good, well inked impression. Only known state. Adhered at all four corners to ar...

Category

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Tissue Paper, Etching

Adolphe Appian (1818-1898) Les Bords de l'Ain (Shores of Ain), signed drawing
Adolphe Appian (1818-1898) Les Bords de l'Ain (Shores of Ain), signed drawing

Adolphe Appian (1818-1898) Les Bords de l'Ain (Shores of Ain), signed drawing

By Adolphe APPIAN

Located in Paris, FR

In 1870 he changed his style to use brilliant and striking color in his paintings but he still continued to make charcoal drawings as well as small etchings of landscapes in the Barb...

Category

1860s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Old Pine Estes Park
Old Pine Estes Park

Old Pine Estes Park

By George Elbert Burr

Located in Missouri, MO

He produced over 1000 watercolors and pulled more than 25,000 etchings generally small in size and showing "the miniaturist's precise delicacy".

Category

1920s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

UNTITLED (Important early Edmondson)
UNTITLED (Important early Edmondson)

UNTITLED (Important early Edmondson)

By Leonard Edmondson

Located in Santa Monica, CA

He produced a large body of work beginning in the late 40’s with small lyrical abstract etchings. In the early 50’s he began making prints that were some of the most advanced abstrac...

Category

1940s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

To a Wedding in North House
To a Wedding in North House

To a Wedding in North House

By Gene Kloss

Located in Missouri, MO

Despite their relatively small size, Kloss's landscape etchings capture quite convincingly the feeling of vast space associated with New Mexico's northern mountains.

Category

1970s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

I Knew Instantly...

I Knew Instantly...

By Amy Wilson

Located in New York, NY

Her drawings explore the tensions between her inner life and the exterior world, incorporating personal stories and observations along with commentary about current events both perso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pines
Pines

Pines

By William Woodward

Located in New Orleans, LA

"Pines", a small intimate etching of a Louisiana forest, is a remembrance of the artist's adopted home.

Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Vintage Nautical Aquatint - The Dock
Vintage Nautical Aquatint - The Dock

Vintage Nautical Aquatint - The Dock

By Günther Grassmann

Located in Houston, TX

Serene color aquatint etching of small boats lining a lakeside dock by artist Günther Grassmann (1900-1993), circa 1960.

Category

1960s Landscape Prints

Materials

Ink, Paper

Bambocciante Master Painting of Man with Horse End of XVII Century Oil on Canvas
Bambocciante Master Painting of Man with Horse End of XVII Century Oil on Canvas

Bambocciante Master Painting of Man with Horse End of XVII Century Oil on Canvas

Located in Roma, IT

Most were Dutch and Flemish artists who brought existing traditions of depicting peasant subjects from sixteenth-century Netherlandish art with them to Italy, and generally created s...

Category

16th Century Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Numbers (Small), 1st Etchings, 2nd State
Numbers (Small), 1st Etchings, 2nd State

Numbers (Small), 1st Etchings, 2nd State

By Jasper Johns

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Etching and photo-engraving Image: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches Sheet: 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches Edition of 40 Signed and numbered JOHX090A

Category

1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

A Small Sagebrush Palace
A Small Sagebrush Palace

A Small Sagebrush Palace

Located in Basalt, CO

Wyoming native Joel Ostlind is a self-taught artist who spent much of his life herding cattle on horses throughout the American West. His drawings found new life as copper plate etch...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Color Pencil, Etching

Amsterdam VI ed 28/50 black-white canal house facade aquatint etch print
Amsterdam VI ed 28/50 black-white canal house facade aquatint etch print

Amsterdam VI ed 28/50 black-white canal house facade aquatint etch print

By Olivier Julia

Located in Doetinchem, NL

Dutch art historian Jaap Nijstad wrote about these prints: "He made small series of etchings and lithographs in which he zoomed deep in on a subject.

Category

1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint

16th Century One-of-a Kind Etching by Pietro Faccini (ITALIAN 1562-1602)
16th Century One-of-a Kind Etching by Pietro Faccini (ITALIAN 1562-1602)

16th Century One-of-a Kind Etching by Pietro Faccini (ITALIAN 1562-1602)

By Pietro Faccini

Located in Gallatin, TN

In the 17th century, it was used as a support for small detailed oil paintings. Etching: A form of printmaking in which a metal plate is covered with a substance called a ‘ground’, ...

Category

16th Century More Art

Materials

Copper

Untitled - Landscape with a large hill / cliff near a stream.

Untitled - Landscape with a large hill / cliff near a stream.

By Herman Naywinx

Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant

Herman Naywinx (ca. 1624 - ca. 1654) made only 16 small landscape etchings. Very little is known of him; he is supposed to have moved to Hamburg where he died.

Category

17th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Ex Formis Nicolai Visscher cum Privelegio Ordinum Hollandiae & West-Frisiae

Ex Formis Nicolai Visscher cum Privelegio Ordinum Hollandiae & West-Frisiae

By Dancker Danckerts

Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant

Pastoral, rural scene of farmers with horse, cows and dogs crossing a small stream. Etching and engraving on a verge type handlaid paper, published ca. 1650, during life of artist.

Category

Mid-17th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving, Etching

Study for Self Portrait 1982

Study for Self Portrait 1982

By Francis Bacon

Located in New York, NY

Bacon worked with skilled printers to create his relatively small body of etchings and lithographs that total only about 40 editions.

Category

1980s Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

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Small Etching For Sale on 1stDibs

Surely you’ll find the exact small etching you’re seeking on 1stDibs — we’ve got a vast assortment for sale. You can easily find an example made in the Modern style, while we also have 7 Modern versions to choose from as well. Finding the perfect small etching may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 18th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right small etching is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes gray, beige, black and green. Finding an appealing small etching — no matter the origin — is easy, but Richard Smith, Ana Rosa de Ycaza, Tomma Abts, André Lhote and Barbara Rosiak each produced popular versions that are worth a look. Artworks like these — often created in etching, aquatint and paper — can elevate any room of your home. A large small etching can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while smaller examples are available — approximately spanning 2 high and 2.94 wide — and may be better suited to a more modest living area.

How Much is a Small Etching?

A small etching can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $800, while the lowest priced sells for $175 and the highest can go for as much as $12,000.

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.