Soft-ground etching

Scope note

Use for the printing process in which the ground is mixed with a soft substance, such as tallow, allowing the rendering of textured lines and areas when the plate is etched. Sometimes, paper is placed over the grounded plate and drawn on, to pick up the ground.

This term has 153 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053251

Broader Terms used

<etching (printmaking process)>

Term used for

etching, soft-ground
soft ground
soft ground etching
soft-ground
soft-ground technique
vernis mou

Equivalent Terms used

soft-ground etchings

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

A Gatehouse

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

La Danse a la Campagne

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Renoir, Pierre Auguste

An old fen mill

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Charles John

An image of Print

Sur la scène (2ème planche)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Degas, Edgar

Sheep

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivares, Thomas
Publisher: Thompson, John P.
Draughtsman: Morland, George (After)
Publisher: Harris, John (publisher I)

Two boys fishing

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivares, Thomas
Draughtsman: Morland, George (After)
Publisher: Thompson, John P.
Publisher: Harris, John (publisher I)

Goats

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivares, Thomas
Draughtsman: Morland, George (After)
Publisher: Harris, John (publisher I)
Publisher: Thompson, John P.

Woman from Constantinople with her child

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Wilkie, David (Attributed to)

Battersea

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivares, Thomas
Publisher: Hixon, Robert
Draughtsman: Serres, John Thomas (After)

Original Etchings by George Hayter Historical and Portrait painter to his Majesty of Belgium and member of the Academy of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Palma, and Venice. Forty-Six Etchings. Printed for James Rimell & Son, 400, Oxford Street MDCCCLXXIX

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hayter, George
Publisher: Rimmel, James

Landscape with a shepherd driving his flock along a path in the right foreground, another man past a bend in the road, in a yard of a farm-house sheltered by trees

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Francia, François Louis Thomas

Imitations of modern drawings

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Francia, François Louis Thomas

An image of Print

John Wilmot

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Daniell, William
Publisher: Daniell, William
Draughtsman: Dance, George II (After)

An image of Print

George Stubbs

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Daniell, William
Publisher: Dance, George II
Draughtsman: Dance, George II (After)
Painter: Dance, George II (After)

Darling spirit of the north

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bruce, John

The Great Happiness

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Collins, Cecil

Young Muse

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Davies, Arthur Bowen

Cain and Abel

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Brussel-Smith, Bernard

View of a new Mexican Town

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Biesel, Fred

Four Riders LIII

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Brun, Christopher

Four Riders LIV

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Brun, Christopher

Four Riders LIV

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Brun, Christopher

Four Riders LIII

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Brun, Christopher

Four Riders LIII

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Brun, Christopher

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