Prints
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Prints
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Late 19th Century Antique Prints
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1850s English Antique Prints
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Late 20th Century Prints
Silk
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
Wood
1830s English Classical Roman Antique Prints
Paper
1880s English Romantic Antique Prints
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1980s American Modern Vintage Prints
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1880s English Romantic Antique Prints
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Late 20th Century Prints
Oak
Early 20th Century Prints
Glass, Wood, Paper
19th Century English Victorian Antique Prints
Giltwood, Paper
1850s English Other Antique Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century Showa Prints
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Mid-20th Century Prints
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Late 20th Century Prints
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Late 20th Century Prints
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Late 20th Century Prints
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Late 19th Century Antique Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Prints
Glass, Wood, Paper
1840s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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Early 1900s British Folk Art Antique Prints
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1840s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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20th Century American Classical Prints
Glass, Wood, Paper
1840s English Folk Art Antique Prints
Paper
1880s Scottish Victorian Antique Prints
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1880s English Romantic Antique Prints
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1930s British Art Deco Vintage Prints
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1880s English Romantic Antique Prints
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1970s American Vintage Prints
Chrome
Mid-19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Prints
Glass, Wood, Paper
1950s Dutch Vintage Prints
Glass, Wood, Paper
1880s Scottish Classical Roman Antique Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century Austrian Prints
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Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Prints
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
Wood, Paper
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Prints
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Early 20th Century Danish Prints
Other
Mid-20th Century Austrian Prints
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1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
Metal
Late 20th Century Prints
Silk
1850s English Renaissance Antique Prints
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1930s American Folk Art Vintage Prints
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1930s British Art Deco Vintage Prints
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1960s Japanese Modern Vintage Prints
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Mid-20th Century Prints
Paper
Late 20th Century French Prints
Plexiglass
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
Wood
Early 1900s Puerto Rican American Classical Antique Prints
Glass, Wood, Paper
1850s French Modern Antique Prints
Paper
1980s German Country Vintage Prints
Canvas, Wood, Paper
1970s German Modern Vintage Prints
Cut Glass, Pine, Lacquer, Paper
Mid-20th Century American Arts and Crafts Prints
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1880s English Romantic Antique Prints
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1880s Scottish Victorian 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.