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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)>

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Mrs Sheridan & Son

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Nugent, Thomas
Publisher: Nugent, Thomas
Painter: Hoppner, John (After)

Edward Maltby

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cooper, Robert
Publisher: Cadell & Davies
Painter: Edridge, Henry (After)

Sir Henry Raeburn

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Walker, William
Painter: Raeburn, Henry (After)

Isaac Barrow

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Holl, William I
Sculptor: Noble, Matthew (After)

Francis Wollaston

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Evans, William
Painter: Edridge, Henry (After)

Charles Dignum

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Heath, James
Publisher: Preston, John
Painter: Callcott, Augustus Wall (After)

William Austin

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Godby, James
Draughtsman: Scott, Edmund (After)
Publisher: Austin, William

Robert Burns

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Shaw, George Baird
Draughtsman: Nasmyth, Alexander (After)

Mrs Coutts

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blood, T.
Publisher: Asperne, James
Painter: Stump, John (After)

Antonio Canova

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Adlard, Henry
Painter: Fabre, François Xavier (After)

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