I’m wondering how to describe some prints I’m listing. Their all from the 50’s/60’s. I just listed some Salvador Dali prints and chose the lithograph trait. But really, I’m not sure how to tell if they’re lithographs or some other type of print. Would I be safe just calling all of these older prints lithographs?
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Old-TimeTreasures Reputation: 37 See Old-TimeTreasures' booth |
Hi not sure if it is or not but I found this site that might explain it for you, since your in possession of the piece and can see it to determine.
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Your very welcome, glad I could help.
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Reader Reputation: 51 See Reader's booth |
Look at the prints through a loupe. If what you see are evenly spaced dots, then they are machine-produced and not true lithographs.
Editing to answer your questions :)
Evenly spaced dots are offset litho.
If the dot patterns are random you’ve likely got a true lithograph.
If there are no dots, it’s probably a giclee print.
Ooops, editing again :) If they’re from the 50’s/60’s, the ones with no dots wouldn’t be giclees since that’s an advanced inkjet process. Hand lithos sometimes don’t have any visible dots. If you’re sure of the age, then those would probably be lithos.
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collectiblecorner Reputation: 120 See collectiblecorner's booth |
Thanks, you motivated me to find my loupe that went missing a couple of weeks [URL removed]
Two of the sets have evenly spaced dots, so I used the offset litho as the trait. Would that be correct?
One of the sets has dots but definitely not evenly spaced, rather random and messy. Not sure what trait to choose there.
The last set has no dots. It says they’ve been reproduced from the original woodblocks. They’re Japanese color prints. Can I choose the litho trait for these?
@collectiblecorner Thanks a bunch, very [URL removed]
Thanks too @reader, I’m learning a bunch about prints this morning!
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