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Engraving

Scope note

Printing process that produces images in line and with little tonal quality; the plate, usually of copper, is incised using a burin, the slight burr produced is scraped away, and the plate is inked for intaglio printing. OCA

This term has 20,801 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique
Reproduction type
Inscription type
Material

Getty AAT term number

300053231

Broader Terms used

<engraving (printmaking process)>

Narrower Terms used

copper engraving (printmaking process)
roulette

Term used for

engravng

Equivalent Terms used

burin work
copper engraving
line-engraving
line engraving

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Anna Maria Schurmann

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Matham, Theodor

"Mittitur inferias…", plate 116 from P. Ovidius Naso, De Metamorphosen (The Metamorphosis of Ovid)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Passe, Crispijn I de

Samuel Maresius Picardus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Matham, Theodor
Painter: Stomme, Jan Jansz. de (After)

Plate Fifty-eight

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Plate Thirteen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Le Cabinet Des Beaux Arts ou Recueil d'Estampes Gravées daprès les Tableaux dun plafond où les Beaux Arts lexplication de ces memes tableaux I par Mr. Claude Perrault di L'Acad des sciences.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Perrault, Claude

Ferdinand Kolonitsch

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sadeler, Egidius II

Albert Johan von Smirzicz

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sadeler, Egidius II

Plate Forty

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Catherine Charlotte, Duchess of Bavaria

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Matham, Theodor
Painter: Spilberg, Johann II (After)

Plate Nineteen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Lepida, wife of Galba

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sadeler, Egidius II

Plate Thirty-nine

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

An image of Print

Bishop Melchior Pyrnesi de Pyra

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sadeler, Egidius II

Plate Fifty-two

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Oeuvres de Dusart

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dusart, Cornelis

"Baccharis Progne…", plate 57 from P. Ovidius Naso, De Metamorphosen (The Metamorphosis of Ovid)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Passe, Crispijn I de

The Libyan Sibyl

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Passe, Crispijn I de

Plate Forty-nine

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Plate Eighteen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Jacobus Laurentius

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Matham, Theodor

Vipsania Agrippina, wife of Tiberius

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sadeler, Egidius II

Plate Fifty-four

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Plate Sixty-seven

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Cornelis I
Draughtsman: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

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