He was the only major figure whose career spanned the whole period which saw the birth of the reproductive print, and the beginnings of the "industrialization" of Italian printmaking.

Outside Italy, reproductive prints by Raimondi and others were the main way that Raphael's art was experienced until the twentieth century.

This scholarly exhibition will explore the history of the reproductive print from its beginnings in Germany to its peak of popularity in the Netherlands, France and England.

This show displays the variety and vitality of such reproductive prints, and points up how they effectively circulated artists' works and ideas in Europe.

Artists like Dürer, Raphael, Rubens and even Michelangelo became widely known through reproductive prints - relatively inexpensive and very portable - circulated throughout Europe.

The Italian partnerships were artistically and commercially successful, and inevitably attracted other printmakers who simply copied paintings independently to make wholly reproductive prints.

He is therefore a key figure in the rise of the reproductive print.

The cards were produced between 1926 and 1931 as serigraphs and as reproductive prints.

He "attempted to free artists from the traditional forms of state and aristocratic patronage by creating a public taste for reproductive prints of historical subjects".

Inevitably a few omissions occur ; Cecil Aldin, for example, whose reproductive prints after his paintings of horses, carriages and sportsmen have graced many an English home.