Edition (printmaking)
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In printmaking, an edition is a number of prints struck from one plate, usually at the same time. This may be a limited edition, with a fixed number of impressions produced on the understanding that n
Rembrandt House Museum, printing studio
Aquatint by Goya, from the Cycle "Los Caprichos": Can't Anyone Untie Us?
State (printmaking)
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In printmaking, a state is a different form of a print, caused by a deliberate and permanent change to a matrix such as a copper plate or woodblock.
Edition (printmaking)
…unlike books. Prints were often run off as demand allowed, and often worn-out plates were reworked by the original artist or another, to produce a new state. The art market attempts to distinguish between "lifetime impressions" and "late impressions", which were produced after the death of the artist. This…
The Three Crosses, drypoint by Rembrandt. This is state III of 1653. State IV is believed to date from 1660, and looks very different, as Rembrandt greatly reworked and darkened the composition. State III is easy to identify, as only it has a visible signature.
Girolamo Mocetto, Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1500/05), engraving after Andrea Mantegna, second state. In the first state the background is plain; the landscape of state II was probably added some years later.