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Colour printing

Scope note

Printing processes, generally involving materials such as dyes and inks, to produce a variety of shades of the visible spectrum.

This term has 2,433 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique
Material

Getty AAT term number

300053329

Broader Terms used

<printing techniques>

Narrower Terms used

full-colour printing

Term used for

chromotypography

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Surimono

A female musician playing a flute at a cherry blossom viewing party

Maker(s)

Designer: Gakutei, Yashima

Taira no Tadanori

Maker(s)

Designer: Kiyochika, Kobayashi

An image of Surimono

A female musician playing the sho (chinese pipes) at a cherry blossom viewing party

Maker(s)

Designer: Gakutei, Yashima

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX as Mitsuhida in Act Ten from the play Taikoki

Maker(s)

Designer: Kunichika, Toyohara

A woman and a youth kneeling in front of a court lady holding a spray of plum blossom

Maker(s)

Designer: Hokuba, Teisai

Poster for Le Monde Moderne, mai

Maker(s)

Designer: Verneuil, Maurice Pillard
Publisher: Imprimerie de Vaugirard

Portrait of a young woman

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Krüger, Albert
Painter: Pollaiolo, Antonio del (After)

The head of Jesus Christ

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Strixner, Johann Nepomuk
Publisher: Strixner, Johann Nepomuk
Painter: Eyck, Jan van (After)

Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Painter: Ghirlandaio, Domenico (Domenico Bigordi) (After)

Poster for Job cigarette papers

Maker(s)

Designer: Mucha, Alphonse Marie
Printer: Champenois, Ferdinand

Poster for Societe Populaire des beaux-arts

Maker(s)

Designer: Mucha, Alphonse Marie
Printer: Champenois, Ferdinand

Circular design with Cupid standing on a lion

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Stodart, Edward Jackson

L'Illustration magazine - cover for Christmas 1896/1897

Maker(s)

Designer: Mucha, Alphonse Marie
Printer: Ducourtioux & Huillard

An image of Print

The story of Tamiya Bôtarô. From the series New selection of brocade pictures (Shinsen azuma nishiki-e)

Maker(s)

Designer: Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka

Christ standing holding an orb

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gubitz, Friedrich Wilhelm
Draughtsman: Cranach, Lucas, the elder (After)

Mitate Sangoku-shi bairin ni asondeshuen o tanoshimu zu

Maker(s)

Designer: Kunisada, Utagawa
Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô

Bandô Shuka I as Miyuki (right sheet, above) with Asao Okuyama III as Yakama Shikaroku (right sheet, below) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Jiraiya with an unidentified actor as Sendô (‘boatman’) Shimahachi (left sheet) in Jiraiya Gôketsu Monogatari premiered at the Kawarasaki-za, 19/07/1852

Maker(s)

Designer: Kunisada, Utagawa

Hikaru Uji iso asobi

Maker(s)

Designer: Kunisada, Utagawa

Iwai Kumesaburô III as Arajishi Otokonosuke (right sheet) Matsumoto Kinshô as Nikki Danjô (centre sheet) and Sawamura Chôjûrô as Tsubone Yashio (left sheet, above) with Onoe Baikô IV as Menoto Masaoka (left sheet, below) in the Yukashita scene from Date Zensei Sakura no Iromaku performed at the Nakamura-zafrom 02/04/1849

Maker(s)

Designer: Kunisada, Utagawa

Sesshu Diamotsu-no-ura ni Heiki no onryo arawaruru no dzu

Maker(s)

Designer: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa

Eiroku yonen kugatsu yokka Kawanakajima no Kassen ni Yamamoto Kansuke nyûdô uchiji no zu

Maker(s)

Designer: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa

Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tomiya Jinbei (right sheet), Bandô Shûka as Shinsuke nyôbo Omoto (‘Omoto, wife of Shinsuke’), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Shikagi? Shinsuke in the play Aoto Banashi performed at the Ichimura-za from 17/1/1849

Maker(s)

Designer: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa

Picture of Minamoto no Yoritomo’s Daibutsû ceremony (Minamoto no Yoritomo Daibutsû kuyô no zu)

Maker(s)

Designer: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa
Designer: Hiroshige, Utagawa

Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Ryôshi Yoemon (right sheet), Onoe Baikô IV as Miura no Takao (centre sheet), and Sawamura Chôjûrô V (Sôjûrô V) as Shimada Jûzaburô (left sheet) in Kôshoku Shimada Monogatari performed at the Ichimura-za in 03/1850

Maker(s)

Designer: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa

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