3. Being of low cost, but not cheap, naturally focus on the picture by itself rather than the expected skill of an “original and unique” artwork. Hand made prints are hybrid beings, somewhere between an immaterial image and a paper as (collectable) object. Not expensive, remembering that money is not the name the best of the art critics. The plate was inked and printed on a vintage etching press.
The invention of printing is one of the greatest artistic achievements of the late Middle Ages. The mass reproduction of images only became possible in Central Europe with the arrival of paper production in the late 14th century.