Steel engraving

Scope note

Printmaking process of engraving using plates of steel or steel-faced copper; replaced the use of less durable copper plates in the early 19th century. For the engraving of steel plates for the production of documents such as banknotes, use "siderography."

This term has 283 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

3000190536

Broader Terms used

<engraving (printmaking process)>
<etching (printmaking process)>

Term used for

engraving, steel
steel-engraving

Equivalent Terms used

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Restoration of the Roman Forum

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Smith, William Richard
Walker, S. J.

Caeserea

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lizars, William Home

Town of St. Helena's from St. Saviour's, Jersey

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Harwood, J. & F.

Convent of Zahle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lizars, William Home
Publisher: Whyte, William

St. Brelades Bay, Jersey

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Harwood, J. & F.

Temple of the Sun at Palmyra

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lizars, William Home

Landscape with a view over a wide river with a stone bridge, two riders and a man with dogs in the foreground

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Painter: Berchem, Nicolaes Pietersz. (After)

Boulay Bay, Jersey

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Harwood, J. & F.

Arabic landscape with mountains and travellers

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Miller, William
Painter: Archer, John Wykeham (After)

St. Saviour's Church, Jersey

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Harwood, J. & F.

Gate Way, Lincoln Castle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watkins, W.
Publisher: Saunders, John
Rhodes, John N. (After)

An image of Print

Thomas Carlyle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Armytage, James Charles
Lawrence, S. (After)

An image of Print

Alfred Tennyson

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Armytage, James Charles
Lawrence, S. (After)

An image of Print

Sea-Shore, Cornwall

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Miller, William
Draughtsman: Bonington, Richard Parkes (After)

Residence of Genl. Sir Herbert Taylor, Bart. Regent's Park

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Tombleson, William
Publisher: Jones & Co.
Draughtsman: Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (After)

Brand im Tower (Tower of London Armoury fire on 31 October 1841)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

The Royal Hospital of St. Katherine, Regent's Park

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Tombleson, William
Publisher: Jones & Co.
Draughtsman: Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (After)

Ticket to the 5th Anniversary dinner of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, 1822

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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