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Color prints

Here are entered works on artistic color prints. Works on color work in practical printing are entered under Color printing.

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• Engraving
• Prints
• Painting

• Chromolithography

• Color prints, Japanese

• Chromoxylography
• Color-etchings
• Painting -- Color reproductions
• Wood-engraving, Colored

• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)

• Japanese Colour Prints (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by Laurence Binyon and J. J. O'Brien Sexton (page images at CMU)
• The Japanese Print: An Interpretation (Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1912), by Frank Lloyd Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese Wood-Cutting and Wood-Cut Printing, by T. Tokuno (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

• The Masters of Ukioye: A Complete Historical Description of Japanese Paintings and Color Prints of the Genre School (c1896), by Ernest Fenollosa, contrib. by William H. Ketcham and Frederick William Gookin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Masters of Ukioye: A Complete Historical Description of Japanese Paintings and Color Prints of the Genre School (c1896), by Ernest Fenollosa, contrib. by William H. Ketcham and Frederick William Gookin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Hizakurige Gajō: Tokaidō Meisho (illustrations and selections from the 19th century comic novel, Tokaidochu Hizakurige: A Shanks' Mare Tour of the Tokaido; in Japanese; originally published Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, ca. 1868), by Ikku Jippensha, illust. by Tamenobu Fujikawa (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Collections)

• The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Colta Feller Ives (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Prang's Chromo (partial serial archives)

• The Best Portraits in Engraving (fifth edition; New York et al.: F. Keppel, c1875), by Charles Sumner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Engravings of Albrecht Durer (London: Seely and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894), by Lionel Cust (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature: Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup (New York: W. L. Andrews, 1899), by William Loring Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Le Tableau des Riches Inventions, Couvertes du Voile des Feintes Amoureuses, Qui Sont Représentées dans le Songe de Poliphile: Desvoilées des Ombres du Songe et Subtilement Exposées (in French; Paris: M. Guillemot, 1600), by Francesco Colonna, contrib. by Béroalde de Verville
  • page images at Tours
  • page images at Gallica
  • PDF at e-rara-ch

• Passional Christi und Antichristi (in German; woodcuts sometimes attributed to Hans and sometimes to Lucas Cranach; 1521), by Martin Luther, contrib. by Philip Melanchthon and Johann Schwertfeger, illust. by Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach (page images at HathiTrust)

• Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
  • Part 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust

• Engraven Desire: Eros, Image and Text in the French Eighteenth Century (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Philip Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalog of the National Exhibition of Prints (partial serial archives)

• Harry Bertoia, Printmaker: Monotypes and Other Monographics (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by June Kompass Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Le Peintre Graveur (21 volumes in French, published in Vienna 1803-1821), by Adam von Bartsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacobus Houbraken et Son Oeuvre (in French; Arnhem: P. Gouda Quint, 1875), by Alexander Ver Huell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), by Michal Lewis, R. E. Lewis, and Suzanne Boorsch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide to the Collections: Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin, par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, et des Vernix Durs et Mols (in French; Paris: Bosse, 1645), by Abraham Bosse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ancient Art in Miniature: Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Holly Pittman, contrib. by Joan Aruz (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature: Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup (New York: W. L. Andrews, 1899), by William Loring Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Die Antiken Gemmen, Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im Klassischen Altertum (3 volumes, n German; Leipzig: Giesecke und Devrient, 1900), by Adolf Furtwängler
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Nouvelles de l'Estampe (in French) (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

• Allgemeiner Portrait-Katalog (2 volumes in 1, in German; Leipzig: Kunst-Comptoir, 1860), by Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin, par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, et des Vernix Durs et Mols (in French; Paris: Bosse, 1645), by Abraham Bosse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Japanese Wood-Cutting and Wood-Cut Printing, by T. Tokuno (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

• An Account of a Method of Etching or Engraving, via Sicca, by Means of Voltaic Electricity (Weston-Super-Mare, J. Whereat; et al., 1848), by James H. Pring
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin, par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, et des Vernix Durs et Mols (in French; Paris: Bosse, 1645), by Abraham Bosse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wood Engraving (London: Ditchling Press, 1921), by R. John Beedham, contrib. by Eric Gill (HTML at woodblock.com)
• Hand-Book of Wood Engraving (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Emerson (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

• How to Make Etchings (Pelham, NY: Bridgman Publishers, c1929), by John J. Barry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lambert (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) As an Engraver of Book-Plates (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed for the author by A. Reid, 1896), by John Vinycomb, contrib. by Richard Welford and John Vessey Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mediaeval Gem Engraving, by C. W. King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1987), by Daniel M. Friedenberg (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell, by Hans Henning van der Osten (page images at Chicago)

• Sigillographie de l'Empire Byzantin (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1884), by Gustave Léon Schlumberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mezzotints (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1903), by Cyril Davenport (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Block Printing Craft (Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, c1938), by Raymond W. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on Engraving (New York: W. E. Rudge, 1921), by Timothy Cole
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.