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Mid-18th Century Antique Prints
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1850s Antique Prints
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1980s Modern Vintage Prints
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20th Century German Prints
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17th Century Antique Prints
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1970s French Vintage Prints
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1860s English Victorian Antique Prints
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Late 19th Century German Antique Prints
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Late 19th Century German Antique Prints
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1850s English Classical Greek Antique Prints
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Early 1900s English Chinoiserie Antique Prints
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1880s Antique Prints
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1920s British Vintage Prints
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20th Century Dutch Modern Prints
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1890s Antique Prints
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16th Century Antique Prints
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1950s German Vintage Prints
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1840s Antique Prints
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1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1730s English Antique Prints
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1880s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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20th Century Mexican Art Deco Prints
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1990s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1930s British Moorish Vintage Prints
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1970s Vintage Prints
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1890s Antique Prints
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18th Century Antique Prints
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1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1980s American Vintage Prints
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1920s British Art Nouveau Vintage Prints
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Mid-18th Century Antique Prints
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2010s North American Modern Prints
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Prints
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1930s British Art Nouveau Vintage 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.