Prints: Identification and Valuation

Sources for the Identification and Valuation of Fine Art Prints

Located in Reference, 1st floor, Willis Library or 3rd floor Willis if indicated.

How to Identify Prints: a Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Ink Jet, NE850 .G37 2004
Bryan's  Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, N40 .B945 vols. 1-5
Iconoclass Index. Early German Prints, NE651 .L386 1995 vols. 1-4
The Seventeenth Century: an Iconographic Index to A. Bartsch, Le Peintre-Graveur, NE90 .B2377 1990 vols. 19-21 (See Iconclass index for codes used to index subjects in the Illustrated Bartsch)
Marcantonio Raimondi and His School: an Iconographic Index to A. Bartsch, Le Peintre-Graveur, NE90 .B2135 1988 vols. 14-16 (See Iconclass index for codes used to index subjects in the Illustrated Bartsch)
Antonio Tempesta and His Time: an Iconographic Index to A. Bartsch, Le Peintre-Graveur, NE90 .B2137 1987 (See Iconclass index for codes used to index subjects in the Illustrated Bartsch)
Italian Printmaking, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: an Annotated Bibliography, Z5947.3 .I8 K37 1987
Early Italian Engraving: an Iconographic Index to A.M. Hind, Early Italian Engraving, NE659 .H48 index
Old Master Print References: a Selected Bibliography, Z5947.3.E85 M37 1986
Fine Print References: a Selected Bibliography of Print-Related Literature, Z5947.A3 L82 1982
Print Reference Sources: a Selected Bibliography, 18th-20th Centuries, Z5947.A3 M37 1979
The Illustrated Bartsch, NE90 .B213 vols. 1-7 (3rd Floor), (See Iconclass index for codes used to index subjects in the Illustrated Bartsch)
American Lithographers, 1900-1960: the Artists and Their Printers,
NE2304 .A3 1983 (3rd floor)
Who's Who in Graphic Art, NC45 .W5 1982 (3rd floor)
The German Single-Leaf Woodcut, 1550-1600, NE1150 .G47 vols. 1-3 (3rd floor)
Early Italian Engraving: An Iconographic Index To A.M. Hind, Early Italian Engraving, NE659 .H48
Early Italian Engraving: a Critical Catalog... NE 659 .H48 (index to catalog listed above)   
Prints of the Twentieth Century: a History, NE490 .C27 (3rd floor)
The Art of the Print: Masterpieces, History, Techniques, NE400 .E32 (3rd floor)
The History of the Illustrated Book: the Western Tradition,  Z1023 .H387 (3rd floor)
A History of Engraving and Etching, from the 15th Century to the Year 1914, NE400 .H66 1930, (3rd floor)
An Introduction to a History of Woodcut, with a Detailed Survey of Work Done in the Fifteenth Century, 761 H584 vols. 1-2 (3rd floor)
American Printmaking: a Century of American Printmaking, 1880-1980, NE507 .W37 1984 (3rd floor)
A Guide to Collectors. 3,500 Illustrations. English Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork & Allied Arts during the Last Half of the Seventeenth Century, the Whole of the Eighteenth Century, and the Earlier Part of the Nineteenth, 749 St81e (3rd floor)

Watermarks

Watermarks are the impressed mark or logo of papermakers.  Watermarks reveal the papermaker or manufacturer.  This knowledge may give some insight into the history, place and time period when the work was created.

*To look for a watermark, hold the work up to the light and tilt in various degrees while looking for the impression of the watermark.  Watermarks will usually be located in the corner of the paper.  If you do find a watermark, visually match the mark to examples shown in the sources listed below.

Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and Their Interconnection, Z237 .C56 1967 (Science Library)
Papermaking: the History and Technique of an Ancient Craft, TS1090 .H816 1943, (Rare Books, 4th floor, Willis Library)
American Prints in the Library of Congress; a Catalog of the Collection, NE505 .A47 1970
Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire Historique des Marques du Papier dès Leur Apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, Z237 .B845 1985 vols. 1-4 (Rare Books, 4th floor, Willis Library)