It is for this reason that museums tend to collect prints that are vintage, rather than contemporary.
As a young man, Marshall started collecting prints, and later, music manuscripts.
Fodor started to collect paintings, drawings and prints from 1834 onwards.
He had an avid eye and an ambitious goal: to collect prints by every contemporary artist he met or knew about.
The baronet also collected books, prints, paintings and suits of armour.
They began collecting prints because, she said, that was what they could afford.
He began collecting prints by trading his own work with other students.
At this time, in Antwerp, he was already collecting Japanese prints.
As a young man he collected contemporary prints, but an interest in history stirred his feeling for ancient art, he said.