The 18th-century Italian engraver Francesco Bartolozzi used the stipple engraving technique to produce a fine drawing like a sanguine, such as Cupids at Play, 1773, from Grosvenor Prints
Images (Bartolozzi) Grosvenor Prints; (Dürer) Metropolitan Museum of Art; (Baxter Print) Richard Mole; (Gillray) Storey’s Ltd
People often talk about prints as affordable artworks. The walls of my own home are hung with countless pictorial prints. Many of these would have been cheap, even throwaway products within the historical context in which they were produced; however, some would have also been technically complicated and ground-breaking artistic manifestos in their own right, carrying important religious and political messages to an ever-increasing audience able to access cheaper and more widely available ‘art’. So it is important to define what a print is.