Prints
20th Century Post-Modern Prints
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Mid-20th Century Prints
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century American Rustic Prints
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1950s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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16th Century French Antique Prints
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1960s English Vintage Prints
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Late 19th Century Antique Prints
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1740s English Georgian Antique Prints
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1850s Swiss Antique Prints
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1880s English Gothic Revival Antique Prints
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Early 19th Century Venezuelan Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1780s French Antique Prints
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1670s Antique Prints
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1780s French Antique Prints
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1970s European Scandinavian Modern Vintage Prints
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2010s Prints
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1780s French Louis XVI Antique Prints
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Early 1800s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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Early 1800s English Antique Prints
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Late 20th Century Prints
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20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Prints
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17th Century French Louis XIV Antique Prints
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1990s Mexican Modern Prints
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Late 19th Century American Antique Prints
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1830s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Prints
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Mid-20th Century American Prints
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18th Century Antique Prints
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20th Century Japanese Showa Prints
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1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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Late 19th Century English Antique Prints
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1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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1710s French Antique Prints
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Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Prints
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1780s Swiss Georgian Antique Prints
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1940s Vintage Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1770s Italian Georgian Antique Prints
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1960s American Rustic Vintage Prints
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1770s Antique Prints
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1960s French Modern Vintage Prints
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19th Century Antique Prints
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1980s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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1980s American Vintage Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Prints
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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1940s Japanese Showa Vintage Prints
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Prints
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1830s English Anglo-Indian 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.