Black & White

When it comes right down to it, there’s nothing more classic than an image in black and white. There’s a good reason that women

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Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Division

This is the first of a series of blogs in which I will look at the major American historical print repositories. In any consideration

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Prints with "decorative value"

Throughout history, the production of prints was intended as a relatively inexpensive way of creating images that could be distributed in multiple

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Framing art on paper

This is to take care of art on paper. Here I will give our recommendations for the proper framing of prints. The manner in which

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Shadows Antique Print Mystery series

I am a big fan of mysteries and so was delighted when I found out that there was a series of mysteries that revolved around antique prints

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Collecting Antique Prints

Collecting does not have to involve spending large sums of money; large expenditure is neither sufficient nor necessary for collecting

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Intaglio prints: part 1

An intaglio print is one whose image is printed from a recessed design incised or etched into the surface of a plate. In this type of print

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Originals and restrikes

Original prints can be divided into those that are original strikes and those that are restrikes. An original strike of a print is one that was printed

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Collecting Antique Prints; part 2

how in order to be a collector, one needs to approach acquiring prints using criteria, and I talked about the collecting criterion of having a

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Antiques as investments

“Your children will thank you. Include American Paintings and Rare Documents In your diversified portfolio.” So reads an advertisement

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Collecting antique prints; part 3

I looked at a number of criteria that a collector should use in developing his/her collection. Today I will consider a final two

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The color of old prints

Many antique prints were initially issued with color, but many have been colored subsequent to their original publication.

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