Prints
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1780s German Georgian Antique Prints
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1950s Vintage Prints
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1970s Dutch Vintage Prints
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1940s Art Deco Vintage Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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1990s French Prints
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1740s Dutch Antique Prints
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1980s Spanish Vintage Prints
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Mid-19th Century Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Prints
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17th Century Antique Prints
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1880s Japanese Meiji Antique Prints
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17th Century Antique Prints
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1980s American Vintage Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century American Sporting Art Prints
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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1930s French French Provincial Vintage Prints
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Early 19th Century English Antique Prints
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1780s German Baroque Antique Prints
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1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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18th Century Antique Prints
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1820s American American Classical Antique Prints
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1820s English Antique Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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18th Century Antique Prints
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Late 20th Century American Prints
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16th Century Swiss Renaissance Antique Prints
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Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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18th Century German Antique Prints
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Mid-19th Century Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Prints
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18th Century Antique Prints
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Late 18th Century Antique Prints
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1960s French Modern Vintage Prints
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Late 20th Century North American Modern Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary British Prints
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Mid-17th Century Antique Prints
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20th Century Dutch Modern Prints
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Mid-18th Century European Antique Prints
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Early 1800s Antique Prints
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1880s English Victorian Antique Prints
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Late 19th Century Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century American Aesthetic Movement Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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1970s French Vintage Prints
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Late 19th Century Antique Prints
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1890s British Sporting Art Antique Prints
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1780s German Baroque Antique Prints
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1950s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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Late 17th Century French Antique Prints
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Antique and Vintage Prints for Wall Decor
Prints are works of art produced in multiple editions. Though several copies of a specific artwork can exist, collectors consider antique and vintage prints originals when they have been manually created by the artist or are “impressions” that are part of the artist’s intent for the work.
Modern artists use a range of printmaking techniques to produce different types of prints such as relief, intaglio and planographic. Relief prints are created by cutting away a printing surface to leave only a design. Ink or paint is applied to the raised parts of the surface, and it is used to stamp or press the design onto paper or another surface. Relief prints include woodcuts, linocuts and engravings.
Intaglio prints are the opposite of relief prints in that they are incised into the printing surface. The artist cuts the design into a block, plate or other material and then coats it with ink before wiping off the surface and transferring the design to paper through tremendous pressure. Intaglio prints have plate marks showing the impression of the original block or plate as it was pressed onto the paper.
Artists create planographic prints by drawing a design on a stone or metal plate using a grease crayon. The plate is washed with water, then ink is spread over the plate and it adheres to the grease markings. The image is then stamped on paper to make prints.
All of these printmaking methods have an intricate process, although each can usually transfer only one color of ink. Artists use separate plates or blocks for multiple colors, and together these create one finished work of art.
Find prints ranging from the 18th- and 19th-century bird illustrations by J.C. Sepp to mid-century modern prints, as well as numerous other antique and vintage prints at 1stDibs. Browse the collection today and read about how to arrange wall art in your space.