Printmaking

It was probably first developed as a means of printing patterns on cloth, and by the 5th century was used in China for printing text and images on paper.

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings.

was a Flemish printmaker, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer

Melencolia I is a large 1514 engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Its central subject is an enigmatic and gloomy winged female figure thought to be a personification of melancholia. Holding her head in her ha

Woman With Dead Child is a 1903 etching by Käthe Kollwitz. Its subject was influenced by her experiences in an underserved sector of Berlin as a physician's wife where disease and infant mortality rate were high. The image is ofte

Knight, Death and the Devil (German: Ritter, Tod und Teufel) is a large 1513 engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, one of the three Meisterstiche (master prints) completed during a period when he almost ceased to work in

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) is a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797-1798 and published as an album in 1799. The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya's sa

The Disasters of War (Spanish: Los desastres de la guerra) is a series of 82 prints created between 1810 and 1820 by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. Although Goya did not make known his intention when creating t

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.

Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator.

Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 - May 9, 1994) was a German-Jewish visual artist and printmaker. A leading textile artist of the 20th century, she is credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art.

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists, known for his skill in depicting modern American life and landscapes.

At first, he painted murals and religious works, and designed stained glass windows and illustrations for books from the printer Johann Froben.

He is an important person in the development of the old master print.

Thomas Gainsborough (; 14 May 1727 (baptised) - 2 August 1788) was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker who specialised in portrait and landscape painting. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he was one of the most important British artists of the 18th century.

William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode.

Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; French: [ɔdilɔ̃ ʁədɔ̃]; 20 April 1840 - 6 July 1916) was a French Symbolist draughtsman, printmaker, and painter. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, Redon worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, works known as his noirs.

Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 - June 7, 1980) was a Canadian and American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years".

Alberto Giacometti (, US also , Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 - 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker, who was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism.

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (French: [mɑjɔl]; December 8, 1861 - September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker. He began his career as a painter and developed an early interest in the decorative arts.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834 - July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

Screen printing (also written as screenprinting and known as silkscreening or serigraphy) is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer paint ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by

The Three Crosses is a 1653 print in etching and drypoint by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, which depicts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Most of his prints are mainly in etching and this one is a drypoint with burin adjust

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue is a poster by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It is a colour lithograph from 1891, probably printed in about 3,000 copies, advertising the famous dancers La Goulue and "No-Bones" Valentin, and the

Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. It depicts a paradoxical architectural structure in which

Drawing Hands is a 1948 lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher in which two lifelike hands appear to emerge from a flat sheet of paper and draw each other. It is among the best-known works by Escher, and an example of an artw

The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper is an 1805 editorial cartoon by the English artist James Gillray. The popular print depicts caricatures of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese: 月岡芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇芳年; 30 April 1839 - 9 June 1892) was a Japanese printmaker. Yoshitoshi has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting.

William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 - 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. He was one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.

Max Ernst (; German: [ɛʁnst] 2 April 1891 - 1 April 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe.

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German: Lucas Cranach der Ältere [ˈluːkas ˈkʁaːnax deːɐ̯ ˈʔɛltəʁə]; c. 1472-16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈrœyzdaːl] ; c. 1629-10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden

Pierre Bonnard (French: [pjɛʁ bɔnaʁ]; 3 October 1867 - 23 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.

Jan Miel (1599 - April 1664) was a Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Italy. He initially formed part of the circle of Dutch and Flemish genre painters in Rome who are referred to as the 'Bamboccianti' and were known for their scenes depicting the lower classes in Rome.

Bernardino Mei (23 October 1612 - 1676) was an Italian painter and engraver, who worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family.

Cherubino Alberti (1553-1615), also called Borghegiano, was an Italian engraver and painter. He is most often remembered for the Roman frescoes completed with his brother Giovanni Alberti during the papacy of Clement VIII. He was

Giacomo del Pò (1654-15 November 1726), also spelled del Po, was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver.

Angelus Novus (New Angel) is a 1920 monoprint by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, created using the oil transfer method he invented. It is now in the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Newton is a monotype by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake first completed in 1795, but reworked and reprinted in 1805. It is one of the 12 "Large Colour Prints" or "Large Colour Printed Drawings" created betwe

1565-29 March 1629) was a Dutch painter and engraver, whose work shows the transition from Northern Mannerism to Dutch realism over the course of his career.

Hendrick Goltzius (German: [ˈhɛndʁɪk ˈɡɔltsi̯ʊs], Dutch: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈxɔltsijʏs]; né Goltz; January or February 1558-1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter.

1436, buried 12 December 1487) was an Italian goldsmith and engraver of the Renaissance, active in his native Florence.

Francesco Rosselli (1445, before 1513) was an Italian miniature painter, and engraver of maps and old master prints.

1534), was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists largely of prints copying paintings.

Lucas van Leyden (1494-8 August 1533), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut.

1575-1616) was an artist and printmaker from the Duchy of Lorraine (then independent but now part of France) whose etchings and some drawings are his only securely identified works today.

Jean-Louis Forain (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi fɔʁɛ̃]; 23 October 1852-11 July 1931) was a French Impressionist painter and printmaker, working in media including oils, watercolour, pastel, etching and lithograph.

Lucas Vorsterman (1595-1675) was a Baroque engraver.

1498, after 1574) (or Giulio de Antonio Buonasone or Julio Bonoso) was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna.

was a German painter and lithographer

was a German painter and printmaker

but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance

was a Spanish painter and printmaker

was an Italian painter, printmaker and miniaturist

noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings

including printmaking, tapestry and glass design

Abraham van Diepenbeeck (9 May 1596 (baptised), between May and September 1675) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, glass painter, print maker and tapestry designer who worked most of his active career in Antwerp.

Antoine Coypel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan kwapɛl]; 11 April 1661-7 January 1722) was a French painter, pastellist, engraver, decorative designer and draughtsman.

10 September 1645-10 June 1708) was a late Dutch Baroque painter, sculptor, engraver and caricaturist.

1500-11 October 1550) was a German engraver, painter and printmaker.

Shikō Munakata (棟方 志功, Munakata Shikō; September 5, 1903, September 13, 1975) was a woodblock printmaker active in Shōwa period Japan.

Augustin Hirschvogel (1503, February 1553) was a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings.

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (1618-1677) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period.

Nishikawa Sukenobu (西川 祐信; 1671, August 20, 1750), often called simply "Sukenobu", was a Japanese printmaker from Kyoto.

1 November 1641) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker, mostly of animal, landscape and still-life subjects.

He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.

was a German painter, engraver and architect

was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker

was a French painter and lithographer

was a Mexican political printmaker

is a Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor

was an Indian American artist and printmaker based in New York City

was an Indian master printmaker, sculptor, and teacher

was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker

was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma

was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker

was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher

was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker

was an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna

was a Spanish painter and etcher of the Baroque era

was an Austrian painter and engraver, one of the most renowned exponents of Rococo painting in the German and Hungarian regions

was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice

was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching

was an Alsatian engraver and painter

was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, engraver, and goldsmith

was an Italian Counter-Maniera painter and printmaker highly influenced by the vaghezza and sensual reform of Federico Barocci

was an Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-Baroque periods

was an Italian painter, engraver, and draughtsman of the Baroque

was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of

was a Japanese designer of woodblock print art in the ukiyo-e style

was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer

was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school

Maurits Cornelis Escher (; Dutch: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛɕər]; 17 June 1898-27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics.

Antonio Frasconi (28 April 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay, 8 January 2013 in Norwalk, CT, USA) was a Uruguayan - American visual artist, best known for his woodcuts.

He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s.

He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy.

Méndez's work mostly focused on engraving for illustrations and other print work generally connected to his political and social activism.

Hasui Kawase (川瀬 巴水, Kawase Hasui; May 18, 1883, November 7, 1957) was a Japanese artist who was one of 20th century Japan's most important and prolific printmakers.

Paraphrase über den Fund eines Handschuhs, often referred to in English as Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove, is a set of ten etchings by Max Klinger.

Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act.

The Apocalypse, properly Apocalypse with Pictures (Latin: Apocalipsis cum figuris; German: Die heimliche Offenbaru[n]g ioh[an]nis), is a 1498 printed book by Albrecht Dürer containing fifteen woodcuts accompanied by text.

Teresa del Pò (1649-1716), also spelled del Po, was an Italian painter and engraver of the late Baroque.

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɔnɔʁe fʁaɡɔnaʁ]; 5 April 1732-22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism.

Félix Édouard Vallotton (French: [feliks edwaʁ valɔtɔ̃]; December 28, 1865, December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis.

It was made into an engraving by Pieter van der Heyden in 1557.

was an Italian painter and engraver

Rops, Félicien (Belgian painter, etcher, and lithographer, 1833-1898)

Simberg, Hugo (Finnish painter and printmaker, 1873-1917)

Zorn, Anders (Swedish painter, etcher, and sculptor, 1860-1920)

Klinger, Max (German painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1857-1920)

He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.

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Corita (American designer, printmaker, and educator, 1918-1986)

Coornhert, D. V. (Netherlandish printmaker, humanist and writer, 1522-1590)

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Utagawa Kuniteru (Japanese illustrator and printmaker, ca. 1830-1874)

Dix, Wilhelm Heinrich Otto (German painter and printmaker, 1891-1969)

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