Prints
Mid-20th Century Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Prints
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Early 20th Century Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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1840s Italian Neoclassical Antique Prints
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1960s English Vintage Prints
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1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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1840s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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Early 20th Century British Edwardian Prints
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1930s British Sporting Art Vintage Prints
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1930s English Sporting Art Vintage Prints
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1930s English Sporting Art Vintage Prints
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1960s British Modern Vintage Prints
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1970s French Minimalist Vintage Prints
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Prints
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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Prints
Zinc
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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1990s Dutch Modern Prints
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19th Century European Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1970s Vintage Prints
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1990s American Modern Prints
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19th Century English Antique Prints
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1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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16th Century Antique Prints
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Prints
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1960s Expressionist Vintage Prints
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Mid-19th Century English Other Antique Prints
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Mid-19th Century English Other Antique Prints
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1980s Spanish Vintage Prints
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1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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Early 2000s German Post-Modern Prints
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1850s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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Late 20th Century Prints
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20th Century American Classical Roman Prints
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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1950s French Modern Vintage Prints
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1980s French Vintage Prints
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Early 2000s Prints
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1980s Swedish Vintage Prints
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1930s Vintage Prints
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1930s Italian Vintage Prints
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Prints
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1980s Vintage Prints
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1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Prints
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20th Century Prints
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1980s American Vintage Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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1930s Vintage Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Prints
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1840s German Other 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.