To think of Chagall at all is to think of his mastery of color both in his paintings and his original etchings and lithographs, but to think of him exclusively as a master of color is to limit him. Chagall made almost 400 etchings in black and white and over 125 black and white lithographs, 24 woodcuts, and a number of linocuts; he also published a number of pieces in periodicals like Verve and Derrière le Miroir and in books containing less than 5 etchings; to spend some time with them is to see something we don't necessarily even think about when we confine ourselves to enjoying his wonderful use of color: his mastery of design, which becomes much easier to see when we are not allowing ourselves to be distracted by the joys of his colors. Chagall's first prints were etchings: 20 for Mein Leben, his autobiography, etched in 1922, published in Berlin in 1923; 96 etched for an edition of Gogol's Dead Souls (click here for examples) commissioned in 1923 by Ambroise Vollard on which Chagall worked in Paris from 1923-1927, printed in 1927, but not published until 1948 (by Teriade), when an additional 11 etchings for the chapter head pieces were etched and printed (click here for all 11); 5 for Marcel Arland's Maternité printed and published in Paris in 1926 (click here for all 5); 16 etchings for Les Sept Péches Capitaux / The Seven Deadly Sins printed and published in Paris in 1926; 100 for an edition of the Fables of La Fontaine (click here for examples) commissioned in 1927 by Ambroise Vollard on which Chagall worked in Paris from 1927-1930, printed in 1930, but not published until 1952 (by Teriade); 105 etchings for an edition of The Bible commissioned in 1930 by Ambroise Vollard (click here for examples) on which Chagall worked from 1930-1939, the first 66 etchings were printed in 1939 and the remaining 39 in 1956, but not published until 1956 (by Teriade); 13 original color lithographs for Four Tales from the Arabian Nights, printed and published in New York in 1948 (Chagall did the black and white stones, hand-colored a model, and the printers made the color stones; 12 lithographs for a special issue of Verve published in 1956 and dedicated to Chagall's Etchings for the Bible; the 12 black and white lithographs were printed on the versos of 17 of the color lithographs for the issue (published by Teriade); 23 lithographs for a special issue of Verve published in 1960 and dedicated to Chagall's Drawings for the Bible; the 23 black and white lithographs were printed on the versos of 24 of the color lithographs for the issue (published by Teriade); 15 black and white lithographs to accompany the 20 color lithographs executed for Cirque (1967; published by Teriade); 24 woodcuts for Poèmes in 1968 (publshed by Cramer, in Switzerland); 5 etchings for Lettre à Marc Chagall (1969); 50 lithographs for an edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest published by André Sauret in Monte Caro in 1975; and 15 etchings for André Malroux's Et sur la Terre. . . (Maeght Editeur, 1977; (click here for examples). We offer some examples below in chronological order.