Prints
1880s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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1840s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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1860s English Chinoiserie Antique Prints
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Mid-20th Century Prints
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Mid-20th Century French Modern Prints
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Early 1900s American Romantic Antique Prints
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1870s English Japonisme Antique Prints
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20th Century Japanese Showa Prints
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1840s German Other Antique Prints
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18th Century Unknown Elizabethan Antique Prints
Glass, Wood, Paper
19th Century French Victorian Antique Prints
Giltwood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints
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Early 20th Century Prints
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1990s American Prints
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1840s Italian Neoclassical Antique Prints
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Early 20th Century Baroque Prints
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
Wood, Paper
1880s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Prints
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1880s English Folk Art Antique Prints
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1950s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1880s English Gothic Revival Antique Prints
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1840s Antique Prints
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1850s English Early Victorian Antique Prints
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1780s English Georgian Antique Prints
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1840s Antique Prints
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20th Century Tribal Prints
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20th Century Prints
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18th Century Italian Greco Roman Antique Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary French Country Prints
Gold Leaf
20th Century Victorian Prints
Other
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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Mid-20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Prints
Stainless Steel
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Prints
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Late 18th Century Antique Prints
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Late 20th Century Mexican Modern Prints
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1970s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1980s American Vintage Prints
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Early 20th Century British Sporting Art Prints
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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1830s Scottish Folk Art Antique Prints
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Late 19th Century Antique Prints
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1820s English George IV Antique Prints
Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Paper
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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1960s Spanish Modern Vintage Prints
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1970s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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Early 18th Century Antique Prints
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1820s English Georgian Antique Prints
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Mid-18th Century Antique Prints
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2010s American Prints
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1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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20th Century American Classical Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Prints
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2010s Argentine Modern 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.