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Stipple

Scope note

Printmaking process that achieves tonal areas by making short flicks or dots in an etching gorund, sometimes in combination with etched lines. For 15th-century process of making relief-printed engravings with stippled areas, use "dotted manner."

This term has 980 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053239

Broader Terms used

<etching (printmaking process)>

Term used for

engraving, stipple (printmaking process)
stipple (printmaking process)
stipple engraving
stipple-engraved
stipple-engraving

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Cymon and Iphigenia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Evening Devotion

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Adlard, Henry
Fussell, Joseph (After)

Female figure painting

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

Henrik Hooft Danielsz.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Claessens, Lambert Antoine
Painter: Lelie, Adriaan de (After)

The Flanderkin Pair

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Adlard, Henry

Putti Flying Around a Column

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Portrait of Thomas Pennant

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chapman, John

Portrait of Richard Reynolds

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Meyer, Henry Hoppner
Publisher: Branwhite, Nathan Cooper
Branwhite, Nathan Cooper (After)

Reclining male figure with a cornucopia and a swan

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Untitled: a Young Woman Mourning over an Urn, subtitled "Charlotte, Charlotte"

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Putti with Masonry Instruments

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Reclining female figure with a palm branch and a harp

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Cybele

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Untitled: Jupiter in his Carriage

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

King Louis XVI of France

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coutellier, F.

Untitled: Venus Taking Away Cupid's Bow and Arrows

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Untitled:Freize with Dancing Figures

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

General Lafayette

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boutrau
Draughtsman: Meyer, Madame (After)

An image of Print

Thomas Twining

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Godby, James
Painter: Halls, John James (After)
Draughtsman: Evans, William (After)

An image of Print

The Chevalier d'Eon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chambars, Thomas
Painter: Cosway, Richard (After)

Venus dissuades Adonis from Hunting

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William
Painter: Cosway, Richard (After)
Publisher: Gibbs, H.

An image of Print

Lady Catherine Howard

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Wilkin, Charles
Painter: Wilkin, Charles (After)

Allegory of London

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chapman, John
MacQuin, Ange Denis (After)

An image of Print

Lady Northwick with her daughter

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Burke, Thomas
Painter: Kauffmann, Angelica (After)

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