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

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Print

Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bovi, Mariano
Draughtsman: Bartolozzi, Francesco (After)

Florizel and Perdita

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

Lady Gertrude Emilia Stuart

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Elizabeth, Duchess of Rutland

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Henrietta Elizabeth Frederica, Lady Langham

Maker(s)

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

Solemnization

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Miller, R.

George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Skelton, William
Publisher: Skelton, William
Painter: Banck, Jan van der (After)

Portrait of William Taplin

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Heath, James
Painter: Unknown (After)

Samuel Hallifax

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Godby, James
Publisher: Orme, Edward
Painter: Edridge, Henry (After)

Samuel Hallifax

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Godby, James
Publisher: Orme, Edward
Painter: Edridge, Henry (After)

An image of Print

Self-portrait

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lutma, Jan II

Zumalacarregui and the Christino Spy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lewis, Charles George
Printmaker: Lewis, Frederick Christian I
Draughtsman: Lewis, John Frederick (After)

An image of Print

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)

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Holl, William I
Publisher: Holl, William I
Painter: Romney, George (After)

An image of Print

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)

An image of Print

Willem II Frederik Georg Lodewijk, King of the Netherlands

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Senus, Willem van
Painter: Pieneman, Jan Willem (After)

An image of Print

Dmitri Mendeleev

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Stodart, George J.
Photographer: Brookes, Warwick (Brookes of Manchester) (After)

An image of Print

Robert Burns

Maker(s)

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

John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Posselwhite, James
Painter: Ross, William Charles (After)

The last jig or Adieu to Old England.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Rowlandson, Thomas (After)
Publisher: Tegg, Thomas

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