Rare Prints Gallery Field Trip

In Downtown Franklin, there is a little store that sells old prints that date back hundreds of years. Most of these prints are done by using a complicated process involving metal plates, and sometimes even stones, or wax. Then the print is colored individually by a separate artist. This tedious process makes these prints valuable, but because they are so old, it makes them rare. I really enjoyed my time spent in this store because I love vintage artwork and I was trying to find a print that maybe I could buy. Unfortunately this was the only one I could afford for 25 dollars:

you can barely see the quality because of the glass reflection, but it's a print of some kind of weird squirrel animal. I really wanted a bird or some flowers or something, but of course THIS was the only one that I could possibly get. I decided obviously, not to buy it, because I didn't want an image of an unidentified cat squirrel mongoose on my wall. But it was interesting to study regardless. The amount of detal in these prints is amazing. You can definitely see why they are so pricey, because even though the artist only carves/etches a print once, it takes them a LONG time to do it.