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The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceabout.com Inventors: The History of Printing and Printing Processes
Access sites about the history of printing, as well as some on technique. 

ADAM: Printing
Part of ADAM, a project of UK librarians. This portion of ADAM covers printing, including: Geographical Area, History, Mediums, Organisations, Printers A-Z, Resource Type, Techniques, and Theory & Criticism.

Albrecht Dürer: An Exhibit of Four of Our Favorite Prints
View details or full images of four of Dürer's prints: The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, The Knight, Death and The Devil, Melancholia and St. Jerome in his Study.

ASU: Glossary of Printmaking Terms

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceColor Printing in the Nineteenth Century
From the University of Delaware Library. This exhibition defines Intaglio, Relief, Lithography, and nature printing and Photomechanical processes, accompanied by images of prints to illustrate the technique.

Honoré Daumier
Part of the larger University of Montana Museum of Fine Arts Print Collection. View 100 Daumier prints.

Louvre: Major Works from the Prints and Drawings Collection
A small but choice sample of prints and drawings from the fabulous Louvre. Click on the images to see the larger version.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceMoMA: What Is a Print? 
From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). An overview of woodcuts, etching, lithographs, and screenprints.

National Gallery of Art: Prints, Drawing and Photographs
Tour of part of the museum's works, including: Works on Paper from the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection; Selections from John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827-1838); Winslow Homer Watercolors - A Survey of Themes and Styles; or Mary Cassatt - The Color Prints, 1889-1894.

Printing: Renaissance & Reformation
From the University of South Carolina Library. The collection is divided into eight "islands" which include images and descriptions of 15th, 16th and 17th century printing.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceThe Printroom
From Max Kade-Erich H. Markel Department of Graphic Arts, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. An excellent rescourse on prints. Special interest: Glossary, Image Maps

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceThe University of Montana Museum of Fine Arts Print Collection
This site includes work dated from the early 1500's as well as examples of contemporary artists' work. One of the highlights is the Daumier collection, but it also includes examples of such artists as Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec. Also note the link to WPA Period Prints.

Yahoo! Master Printmakers
Not many printers are included here yet, probably because currently there just are not that many sites dedicated to this group of artists.

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