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 20,804 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

Equivalent Terms used

burin work
copper engraving
line-engraving
line engraving

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Wounded Horses of a Battle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Huchtenburgh, Jan van
Draughtsman: Meulen, Adam Frans van der (After)

An image of Print

Florimond de Roemond

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

An image of Print

Anonymous Jesuit

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

An image of Print

Portrait of Israël Silvestre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Edelinck, Gérard
Printmaker: Silvestre, Israël, the younger (Possibly)
Painter: Le Brun, Charles (After)

An image of Print

Portrait of Sir Samuel Morland

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lombart, Pierre
Painter: Lely, Peter (After)

Marie de' Medici

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hondius, Hendrik I

Suzanna and the Elders

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pontius, Paulus
Painter: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

An image of Print

Dorothy (Sidney), Countess of Sunderland

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lombart, Pierre
Painter: Dyck, Anthony van (After)

Apollo and Daphne

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Veneziano, Agostino
Painter: Bandinelli, Baccio (After)

Antoine Coypel

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Duchange, Gaspard
Painter: Coypel, Antoine (After)

An image of Print

Marie de' Medici wearing an open-necked ruff, half-length, facing right

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de
Painter: Quesnel, François (I) (After)

The Last Supper

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Goltzius, Hendrik

An image of Print

Henry de Lorraine, duc de Bar, half length

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

An image of Print

Henry Bourbon, prince de Condé

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

An image of Print

Equestrian portrait of Louis of Lorraine, Prince of Phalsburg

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Callot, Jacques

An image of Print

Henry IV, King of France, half-length wearing his crown and carrying his sceptre in his right hand.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

Medallion portrait of Pope Julius II in profile to the left

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Monogrammist A. A.

Wounded Horses of a Battle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Huchtenburgh, Jan van
Draughtsman: Meulen, Adam Frans van der (After)

Louis Dorléans

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Wierix, Hieronymus
Painter: Veen, Otto van (After)

The Fall of the rebel angels

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Orley, Richard van
Draughtsman: Orley, Jan van (After)
Painter: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

An image of Print

Isaac Barrow

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Loggan, David

Six columns decorated with figures

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Persyn, Reinier van
Podestà, Giovanni Andrea (After)

St Anthony

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leeuw, Willem Pietersz van der
Lievens, Jan (After)

A View of London as it was in the Year 1647.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Benning, R.
Publisher: Boydell, John
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

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