Print room
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A print room is a room in an art gallery or museum where a collection of old master and modern prints, usually together with drawings, watercolours, and photographs, are held and viewed.
British Museum, Prints And Drawings Study Room
The Hundred Guilder Print, c.1647-1649, etching by Rembrandt. Most large print rooms have an example of this print
Drawing of martyrs John and Paul by Guercino, Courtauld Institute, London
Ukiyo-e coloured woodcut by Hokusai
Old master print
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An old master print is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition. The term remains current in the art trade, and there is no easy alternative in English to distinguish
Print room
…A print room is a room in an art gallery or museum where a collection of old master and modern prints, usually together with drawings, watercolours, and photographs, are held and viewed. A further meaning is a room decorated by pasting…
The Three Crosses, drypoint by Rembrandt, 1653, state III of IV
Melencolia I, 1514, engraving by Albrecht Dürer
This donor portrait of about 1455 shows a large coloured print attached to the wall with sealing wax. Petrus Christus, NGA, Washington.
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)