Old master print facts for kids

The Three Crosses by Rembrandt, 1653

An old master print is a work of art made by a printing process. Most of the old master prints were made by 1830 and no new ones came after. The main techniques used to make an old master print are woodcut, engraving and etching. Sometimes, old master prints are printed on paper, but rarely.

Many great European artists, such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, and Francisco Goya, were printmakers.

Images for kids

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  Melencolia I, 1514, engraving by Albrecht Dürer

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  Anonymous German 15th-century woodcut, about 1480, with hand-colouring, including (unusually) spots of gold. 5.2 x 3.9 cm (similar to the original size on most screens)

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  A woodcut of St Christopher dated 1423 (southern Germany); John Rylands Library

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  The first self-portrait, by the first businessman in the history of printmaking, Israhel van Meckenam, with his wife

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  Reproductive engraving by Jacob Matham, in this case of a sculpture, Moses, by Michelangelo, 1593

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  The Milkmaid, engraving by Lucas van Leyden, 1510

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  The Little Fool by Sebald Beham, 1542, 4.4 x 8.1 cm

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  Hercules, engraving by Giorgio Ghisi, after Bertani, 1558

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  The Farnese Hercules, engraving by Goltzius

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  Self-portrait by Rembrandt, 1630

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  "The Raising of Lazarus", etching by Castiglione

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  One of Piranesi's views of Rome