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Surrealism avant la lettre from the Bizzarie di varie figure (1624) by Giovanni Battista Braccelli

Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., January 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished. Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.

Adspectus Incauti Dispendium (1601), woodblock title page from the Veridicus Christianus.

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old master print, print culture

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. The process is capable of producing multiple copies of the same piece, which is called a print. Each copy is known as an impression. Painting or drawing, on the other hand, create a unique original piece of artwork. Prints are created from a single original surface, known technically as a matrix.

Each print is considered an original work of art, not a copy. Works printed from a single plate create an edition, in modern times usually each signed and numbered to form a limited edition. Prints may also be published in book form, as artists' books. A single print could be the product of one or multiple techniques.

Role in the history of the visual culture: democratic means of distribution.

Noted printmakers

• Odilon Redon
• William Blake
• Albrecht Dürer
• Hendrick Goltzius
• William Hogarth
• Martin Schöngauer
• Gustave Doré
• Roland Topor
• Jacques Gautier d'Agoty
• Fornasetti
• Jacques Callot
• José Guadalupe Posada

See also

• Quatre siècles de Surréalisme (1973) by Pierre Belfond
• Artist's proof
• Banhua, Chinese printmaking
• Carborundum printmaking
• Edition
• Graphic design
• Line engraving
• Old master print
• Shin hanga
• Sosaku hanga
• Ukiyo-e
• Viscosity printing
• List of Printmakers