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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

Frontispiece. Portrait medallion of Bunyan, with the figures of Faith, Hope and Charity

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Strutt, Joseph
Publisher: Thane, John
Painter: Stothard, Thomas (After)

A Swedish lady in the court dress

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ruotte, Louis Charles
Publisher: Cadell, T

Elizabeth Countess of Lanesborough

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher: Diemar, Emanuel Mathias
Draughtsman: Hone, Horace (After)

An image of Print

Selima & Scander

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Skorodumov, Gavrila Ivanovich
Publisher: Gamble, James
Publisher: Williams, John

Three shining ones appearing to Christian at the Cross

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Strutt, Joseph
Publisher: Thane, John
Painter: Stothard, Thomas (After)

Portrait of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)
Draughtsman: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (After)
Publisher: Macklin, Thomas

Lord John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Romney, George (After)

Venus attired by the Graces

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Kauffmann, Angelica (After)

Jane Countess of Harrington, and her children

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Reynolds, Joshua (After)

N. Bonaparte

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher: Molteno, James Anthony
Appiani, Andrea I (After)

Mercury seated on the ground, with three children

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco

Adelaide and Fonrose

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Zancon, Gaetano
Painter: Hamilton, William (After)

An image of Print

Two soldiers speaking to a girl gathering flowers

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Neagle, James
Publisher: Ernst, George
Draughtsman: Ramberg, Johann Heinrich (After)

Lamia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher: Diemar, Emanuel Mathias
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (After)

Brisé fan

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

An image of Print

Mr Jan de Witt

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kobell, Jan I
Painter: Smit, Jan (After)

An image of Print

Le Tzar Alexis Michailowich

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. A. J. le grand Duc Michel

Maker(s)

Printmaker: John, Friedrich
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. M. l'Empereur Pierre II

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coupé, Antoine Baptiste
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. M. l'Imperatrice Anne Iwanowna

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. M. l'Imperatrice Catherine I

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. M. l'Imperatrice Elisabeth Petrowna

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. A. J. le grand Duc Nicolas

Maker(s)

Printmaker: John, Friedrich
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. M. l'Imperatrice Marie

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

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