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

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Trade card

Trade card for Henry Jones, Watch maker, Goldsmith & Jeweller, Bristol

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Trade card

Trade card for Henry Jones, Watch maker, Goldsmith & Jeweller, Bristol

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baker, William (Bristol, 19thC)

An image of Trade card

Trade card for Henry Jones, Watch maker, Goldsmith & Jeweller, Bristol

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Trade card

Trade card for Mary Sadler at the York Family Hotel, Clevedon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

View in the Regent's Park

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lacey, Samuel
Publisher: Jones & Co.
Draughtsman: Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (After)

An image of Trade card

Trade card for George Jull, Grocer & tea dealer, Leamington

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

Thomas Webster

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pound, D. J.

An image of Print

David Wilkie

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Robinson, Henry
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co.
Painter: Beechey, William (After)

An image of Print

David Roberts

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pound, D. J.

Trade card of Garaway, Mayes & Co., Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Florists, Durdham Down

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Silvester, Richard William

An image of Print

View of an interior with a tall ceiling and pillars, with two men looking to the right, startled at a vision of a reclining female figure reading a book

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

An image of Print

The Prophet of St Paul's

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Heath, Charles
Painter: Chalon, Alfred Edward (After)

An image of Print

View of a five story building with two tall, thin turrets, three domes beyond, figures on the river banks below

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

An image of Print

Mountainous landscape, with road leading from foreground towards a bridge, river and houses below, two figures on the road, herding cows and sheep

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

The Moorland Pool

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Smetham, James

An image of Print

View across a river towards a city, riverbank and house to the right with figures below, one washing clothes in the water, a boat with three men in the foreground to the right

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

Val St Nicola, Switzerland

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Wallis, Robert
Painter: Harding, James Duffield (After)
Printer: Virtue

An image of Print

View of buildings from across river, with figures and boats in the foreground

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Higham, Thomas (Possibly)
Draughtsman: Roberts, David (After)

An image of Print

Lochleven Castle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Brandard, Robert
Draughtsman: Cattermole, George (After)

An image of Print

The trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Melville, Henry (Attributed)

An image of Print

Landscape with expanse of moorland, two riders and a dog on a path to the right, three goats in the foreground

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

An image of Print

The Gendarmenmarkt square, Berlin, with a view of the French and German cathedrals

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

An image of Print

La Spezia, Coast of Genoa

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Allen, James Baylis
Draughtsman: Harding, James Duffield (After)

Cephalonia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Finden, Edward Francis
Draughtsman: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (After)
Draughtsman: Page, William, (British) (After)
Publisher: Murray, John, publisher i
Production: Tilt, C.

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