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Today is the 86th birthday of "Uncle Charlie". What makes this relevant to this blog is that my Uncle Charlie is Charles Rand Penney, who put together

Some time ago, an what seemed to be an exciting find appeared on the market, a collection of woodblock prints from the estate of an unknown

I have looked at the subject matter which appears in old prints, as well as the processes used to make them. Another important aspect

Nature printing is not a single process, but includes any printmaking procedure where actual natural specimens—such as a plant or insect

Has done a great job in other posts on this blog of talking about what makes a map valuable from a connoisseur's perspective. But for a beginning

This means that whenever you see a nineteenth-century British sporting print in North America, the odds

One of the most common questions we get at the Philadelphia Print Shop is how we price our prints. What makes one print worth

It has been a number of weeks since my last Antiques Roadshow taping (in Raleigh, NC). Don Cresswell, did his three stops in the subsequent

Sidney Z. Lucas was an art entrepreneur who was responsible for a large number of prints which generate many questions

At the Print & Posters table we saw a wide range of prints, with some really wonderful things coming in. There

Institutions which hold important collections of antique prints. I have already written about the Library of Congress, the

A couple of weeks ago, Victoria wrote a great post about traditions of allegory in Western art. As I’ve been researching