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

Equivalent Terms used

burin work
copper engraving
line-engraving
line engraving

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Print

Matthias Flacius

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissard, Robert

An image of Print

Williem Goeree

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gunst, Pieter Stevens van
Painter: Plas, David van der (After)

An image of Print

Self portrait

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mellan, Claude
Painter: Mellan, Claude (After)
Publisher: Odieuvre, Michel

Cavalry-Engagement

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, wearing a suit of armour and holding a sword in his right hand.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

Philadelphia and Elizabeth Wharton

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gunst, Pieter Stevens van
Painter: Dyck, Anthony van (After)

Venus on Her Couch as Eros Fills His Quiver with Arrows

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Saenredam, Jan
Draughtsman: Goltzius, Hendrik (After)

An image of Print

René de L'Espine

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Daret, Pierre

An image of Print

Blaise de Vignère

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

Monument to Thomas Guy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Middleton, M. H.
Sculptor: Bacon, John I (After)

Landscape near Bonn, Germany

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Hollar, Wenceslaus (After)

Strawberry Hill, the Seat of the Honourable Horace Walpole

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Barrow, Joseph Charles (After)

Spring

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Saenredam, Jan
Draughtsman: Goltzius, Hendrik (After)

The Wise Virgins Preparing for the Solemn Nuptials

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Saenredam, Jan

Hebe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Binck, Jacob (After)
Draughtsman: Caraglio, Jacopo (After)
Draughtsman: Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo) (After)

An image of Print

Ange Capel

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

St. John the evangelist and St. Mary Magdalen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Binck, Jacob

Portrait of Rembrandt

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Vliet, Jan van (After)
Draughtsman: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (After)

Christine-Caroline de Wurtemberg, margravine de Brandebourg

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Drevet, Pierre

Venus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Binck, Jacob (After)
Draughtsman: Caraglio, Jacopo (After)
Draughtsman: Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo) (After)

An image of Print

François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, wearing a neck ruff, in an oval border

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de

An image of Print

Michel Larcher, marquis d'Olisy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Collin, Jean
Draughtsman: Helard or Helart, Jean (After)

An image of Print

Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Leu, Thomas de (Attributed)
Publisher: Leu, Thomas de

A View of the Public Fireworks to be exhibited on Occasion of the General Peace, Concluded at Aix le Chapelle, Nov. 7. 1848.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Baldwin, R. Jun.

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