Legends Of The Prints Hall Thorpe And His Ilk

Far from the hot air and hype that haunt the fine art auction rooms, the nation's workaday print dealers are keeping up the good work - the relatively mundane trade in rare prints and multiples. Not to be confused with commercial posters and reproductions, prints have involved artists as diverse as William Hogarth and Pablo Picasso, who saw it as a way to make their output available to a wider audience - but turned print-making into an art form in its own right.