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Message:: [QUOTE="Iconodule, post: 11746525, member: 91417"]When you say "prints" do you mean original, fine art prints (woodcuts, etchings, engravings, serigraph/silkscreen, lithograph, monoprint, etc.) or reproductive "prints" (photographic or scanned reproduction)?  The distinction seems to be muddled today.  Some artists even have photographic reproductions made of their paintings or drawings, and then sign and number the repros and sell them as numbered prints. (Of course, photos are called "prints" too, and a photographer can legitimately make a a numbered series of their own photographic prints where each is an original, just like an original print in multiples.) For me, the intention is important.  If an artist creates drawings/sketches that are intended to become etchings, woodcuts, etc. the print is an original work of art and the preliminary drawings are preliminary drawings for the that print (just as for a painting or other single image work.)  But a reproductive print is just a copy, not made by the artist. So, what I am asking in this context, is whether your unsigned prints are serigraphs, lithographs, etc. or a good-quality photographic reproduction (usually mass produced for decoration.) "Print" is a confusing word because it is used for so many (even contradictory) things in the context of art.[/QUOTE]