Limited-edition print documentation now available on news blog
A Limited Editions page on our news blog now provides direct access to our portfolio of 66 limited-edition, original artworks available from the Artists of Al Young Studios. These miniature drawings were produced in a series of 14 editions from July 1996 through July 2003.
Each lithograph was hand-drawn by the artist on a slab of Bavarian limestone carefully prepared for the purpose. Upon completion of the drawings, stones were treated and the images were hand-printed using a chemical process invented in 1798.
Editions of this kind are carefully documented to ensure the integrity of the status of these artworks among collectors as being original, signed and numbered prints. In fact, once an edition of this kind is completed, the images on the printing element are destroyed. Limited editions are very different from open-edition, offset prints (whether numbered or unnumbered, signed or unsigned). The latter may be fine art prints, but they are not original and they are not collectible in the sense of genuine, limited-edition impressions.
While the blog's Limited Edition page provides access to these original artworks by edition (through the edition documentation now residing on the blog) the Limited Edition Collection will continue to provide access to the same artwork via our online art gallery.
Each image in the Limited Edition Collection was hand drawn with a wax pencil on the finely ground surface of a slab of Bavarian limestone. Because the limestone slab becomes the printing element from which impressions are printed in the hand-operated press, images drawn on the stone must be drawn in reverse. Here, the Cinderella-stamp wax-image for Anthony Trollope 1 appears above the wax drawing for Ratty's River.
Each lithograph was hand-drawn by the artist on a slab of Bavarian limestone carefully prepared for the purpose. Upon completion of the drawings, stones were treated and the images were hand-printed using a chemical process invented in 1798.
Editions of this kind are carefully documented to ensure the integrity of the status of these artworks among collectors as being original, signed and numbered prints. In fact, once an edition of this kind is completed, the images on the printing element are destroyed. Limited editions are very different from open-edition, offset prints (whether numbered or unnumbered, signed or unsigned). The latter may be fine art prints, but they are not original and they are not collectible in the sense of genuine, limited-edition impressions.
While the blog's Limited Edition page provides access to these original artworks by edition (through the edition documentation now residing on the blog) the Limited Edition Collection will continue to provide access to the same artwork via our online art gallery.
Each image in the Limited Edition Collection was hand drawn with a wax pencil on the finely ground surface of a slab of Bavarian limestone. Because the limestone slab becomes the printing element from which impressions are printed in the hand-operated press, images drawn on the stone must be drawn in reverse. Here, the Cinderella-stamp wax-image for Anthony Trollope 1 appears above the wax drawing for Ratty's River.
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