Prints
1960s American Modern Vintage Prints
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1930s British Sporting Art Vintage Prints
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18th Century Antique Prints
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1970s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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1980s Vintage Prints
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20th Century Victorian Prints
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16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Prints
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Early 2000s Spanish Modern Prints
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1980s Modern Vintage Prints
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2010s Italian Modern Prints
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1750s Antique Prints
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Early 17th Century French Renaissance Antique Prints
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1960s Vintage Prints
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20th Century Victorian Prints
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18th Century Antique Prints
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century Prints
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2010s Prints
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1750s Chinese Georgian Antique Prints
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Early 20th Century North American Late Victorian Prints
Gesso, Paper
1980s German De Stijl Vintage Prints
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1870s English Other Antique Prints
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2010s American Prints
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2010s Prints
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16th Century Antique Prints
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1960s English Modern Vintage Prints
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2010s Spanish Modern Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Post-Modern Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian French Provincial Prints
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20th Century Victorian Prints
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1810s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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20th Century French Prints
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20th Century Prints
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19th Century French Antique Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Prints
Metal
Early 20th Century North American Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
Metal
18th Century Antique Prints
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20th Century Victorian Prints
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2010s American Prints
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17th Century French Louis XIV Antique Prints
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1960s French Vintage Prints
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Late 20th Century Minimalist Prints
Satin, Paper
20th Century Victorian Prints
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1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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20th Century Italian Prints
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1740s Swiss Baroque Antique Prints
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2010s Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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20th Century Victorian Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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1810s English Antique Prints
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17th Century Dutch Antique Prints
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1930s British Sporting Art Vintage Prints
Wood, Paper
1930s British Sporting Art Vintage Prints
Paper, Wood
2010s American 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.