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Printing

Scope note

Use for processes in which an image, pictorial or textual, is transferred, usually to paper or cloth, most often by means of a plate, block, stone, or screen. Use also for the making of photographic prints and, with computers, for the production of a paper copy of stored data. For the production of prints in a fine arts context, prefer "printmaking."

This term has 2,069 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique
Role

Getty AAT term number

300053319

Broader Terms used

<bookprinting and related printing processes and techniques>

Narrower Terms used

inkjet
intaglio printing
laser printing
lithographic printing
planographic printing
relief printing
screen printing
transfer printing

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Gordon at Khartoum : being a personal narrative of events in continuation of "A secret history of the English occupation of Egypt"

Maker(s)

Author: Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
Publisher: Stephen Swift and Co. Ltd.
Printer: Chiswick Press
Printer: Charles Whittingham & Co.

Secret history of the English aggression on Egypt 1875-1882 : being a personal narrative of the events of those years

Maker(s)

Author: Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
Printer: Chiswick Press
Printer: Charles Whittingham & Co.

The Fitzwilliam Music Vol. 1-3

Maker(s)

Novello, Vincent (Organist to the Portuguese Emb)

Five "Songs of innocence" by William Blake, set to music by Arthur Somervell

Maker(s)

Composer: Somervell, Arthur
Publisher: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.

Select ayres and dialogues : for one, two, and three voyces; to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol.

Maker(s)

Composer: Playford, John
Publisher: Playford, John
Composer: Wilson, John, 1595-1674
Composer: Coleman, Charles, ca. 1605-1664
Composer: Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662
Composer: Lawes, William, 1602-1645
Composer: Lanneare, Nicholas, 1588-1666
Composer: Webb, William, c1600-1657
Composer: Colman, Edward, 1622-1669
Composer: Savile, Jeremy
Composer: Dering, Mary, Lady, 1629-1704
Composer: Brewer, Thomas, 1611-ca. 1665
Composer: Johnson, Robert, 1583-1633
Composer: Warner, Mr.
Composer: Goodgroome, John, ca.1630-1704
Composer: Smegergill, William
Composer: Ives, Simon, 1600-1662
Composer: Tompkins, William
Composer: Cobb, John, fl 1630-1650
Composer: Jenkins, John, 1592-1678
Printer: Godbid, William, d.1679

The St Edward Plate

Maker(s)

Factory: Spode

Le livre des portes

Maker(s)

Designer: Lecuire, Pierre
Author: Lecuire, Pierre
Illustrator: Rouan, François
Publisher: Editions des Livres de Pierre Lecuire
Typographer: Mérat, Francis

An image of Drawing

Ballads and sonnets

Maker(s)

Author: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Draughtsman: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Annotator: Rossetti, W. M.
Annotator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina
Annotator: Cockerell, Sydney C.
Publisher: Ellis and White
Printer: Chiswick Press

Notes by William Michael Rossetti prepared in 1911 to accompany the complete works of his brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Maker(s)

Writer: Rossetti, W. M.
Annotator: Cockerell, Sydney C.
Binder: Adams, Katharine
Publisher: Astolat Press

Day and night songs, and The music-master : a love poem

Maker(s)

Author: Allingham, William
Illustrator: Hughes, Arthur
Illustrator: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Illustrator: Millais, John Everett
Illustrator: Dalziel family
Publisher: Bell and Daldy
Printer: Savill and Edwards

The seraphim, and other poems

Maker(s)

Author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Annotator: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Publisher: Saunders and Otley
Printer: Samuel Bentley

Publisher’s proofs for the first book edition of Jude the Obscure, annotated by the author

Maker(s)

Author: Hardy, Thomas (writer)
Publisher: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.

An image of Vase

Vase

Maker(s)

Unknown

Morris as I knew him

Maker(s)

Author: Shaw, Bernard
Contributor: Morison, Stanley
Contributor: Blackwell, Basil
Publisher: William Morris Society
Printer: Dolmen Press

Bernard Shaw and William Morris

Maker(s)

Author: Arnot, Robert Page
Publisher: William Morris Society

The medieval vision of William Morris : a lecture given by R. Furneaux Jordan on November 14, 1957, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.

Maker(s)

Author: Jordan, Robert Furneaux
Publisher: William Morris Society
Printer: Dolmen Press

Morris and the printed book : a reconsideration of his views on type and book design in the light of later computer-aided techniques

Maker(s)

Author: Dreyfus, John
Printer: William Morris Society

Facsimile of William Morris’ design for the pigskin binding of the Kelmscott Chaucer

Maker(s)

Morris, William
Printer: White Dove Press
Publisher: Kelmscott Manor
Paper maker: Modo Merchants

L'Odyssée d'Homére.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Réveil, Achille
Draughtsman: Flaxman, John (After)

Folding fan

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Brisé fan

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

Folding fan

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Neo-classical fan with dancing figures

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Giant folding fan with Aurora in her chariot

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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