Prints
1820s Italian Neoclassical Antique Prints
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1930s English Vintage Prints
1880s English Antique Prints
Early 1900s English Antique Prints
1910s English Vintage Prints
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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20th Century Italian Prints
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1930s English Vintage Prints
1930s English Vintage Prints
1880s English Antique Prints
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Prints
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1910s English Vintage Prints
Early 1900s English Antique Prints
Early 19th Century French Regency Antique Prints
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1860s American Antique Prints
Lithograph
1910s French Modern Vintage Prints
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20th Century Italian Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1910s English Vintage Prints
1980s Italian Vintage Prints
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1890s English Antique Prints
Mid-20th Century Japanese Prints
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Prints
Wood, Paper
1910s English Vintage Prints
1980s American Modern Vintage Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1920s English Vintage Prints
1970s American Modern Vintage Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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Mid-18th Century Italian Georgian Antique Prints
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1970s Italian Vintage Prints
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Prints
Aluminum
19th Century American Folk Art Antique Prints
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20th Century Italian Other Prints
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19th Century American Antique Prints
19th Century Greek Revival Antique Prints
Burl, Paper
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
1970s American Vintage Prints
Stainless Steel
Mid-18th Century French Georgian Antique Prints
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20th Century Italian Prints
20th Century Italian Prints
1950s American Vintage Prints
Wood, Paper
20th Century Italian Prints
20th Century Italian Prints
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20th Century American Prints
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Early 20th Century French Prints
Gold Leaf
Late 20th Century French Prints
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1980s Vintage Prints
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1980s Vintage Prints
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Early 17th Century English Elizabethan Antique Prints
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Late 18th Century German Louis XVI Antique Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary English Prints
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2010s English 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.