Modern and Contemporary Prints by Click on the title of the book to see the location and call number.
How to Identify Prints: a Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Ink Jet
Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (5 vols.)
Iconoclass Index. Early German Prints (4 vols.)
The Seventeenth Century: an Iconographic Index to A. Bartsch, Le Peintre-Graveur
Volumes 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
Volumes 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
See Iconclass index for codes used to index subjects in the Illustrated Bartsch.
Italian Printmaking, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: an Annotated Bibliography
Early Italian Engraving: an Iconographic Index to A.M. Hind, Early Italian Engraving|
Old Master Print References: a Selected Bibliography
Fine Print References: a Selected Bibliography of Print-Related Literature
Print Reference Sources: a Selected Bibliography, 18th-20th Centuries
The Illustrated Bartsch
Volumes 1-7. ( See Iconclass index for codes used to index subjects in the Illustrated Bartsch).
American Lithographers, 1900-1960: the Artists and Their Printers
The German Single-Leaf Woodcut, 1550-1600
Volumes 1-3.
Early Italian Engraving: An Iconographic Index To A.M. Hind, Early Italian Engraving
Prints of the Twentieth Century: a History
The Art of the Print: Masterpieces, History, Techniques
The History of the Illustrated Book: the Western Tradition
A History of Engraving and Etching, from the 15th Century to the Year 1914
An Introduction to a History of Woodcut, with a Detailed Survey of Work Done in the Fifteenth Century
Volumes 1-2.
American Printmaking: a Century of American Printmaking (1880-1980)
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
Watermarks are the impressed mark or logo of paper makers. Watermarks reveal the paper maker 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
Papermaking: the History and Technique of an Ancient Craft
American Prints in the Library of Congress; a Catalog of the Collection
Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire Historique des Marques du Papier dès Leur Apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600 (4 vols.)
