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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

Elizabeth, Duchess of Rutland

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cousins, Samuel
Painter: Sanders, George (After)

Trade card of Mackie & Co., Nursey at Leamington called Ranelagh Gardens

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Miss Bowles

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cousins, Samuel
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Henry, Lord Brougham & Vaux.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Walker, William
Painter: Lawrence, Thomas (After)

William Beckford

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dean, Thomas Anthony
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

An image of Print

The Banishment of Cleombrotus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Garner, Thomas
Publisher: Jones & Co.
Painter: West, Benjamin (After)

Visit of Queen Victoria to the Duchesse D’Orléans

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Skelton, Joseph John
Printmaker: Hopwood, William
Painter: Lepoittevin, Eugene (After)

Portrait of a young woman as Hebe, holding a dish in her left hand, her bust nude, resting her head on the eagle to the right and touching its beak with her right hand

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

British Admirals (Vincent, Duncan, Nelson, Mitchell and others). Brittania viewing the conquerors of the seas

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Roberts, Piercy

Catherine Maria Bury, Countess of Charleville

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Thomson, James (C18th)
Painter: Hamilton, Hugh Douglas (After)
Publisher: Bull, Edward

Winter

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Morton, Edward
Draughtsman: Stewart, James Struthers
Publisher: Hollyer, Samuel
Publisher: Ackermann & Co.

An image of Print

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Shenton, Henry Chawner I
Publisher: Jones & Co.
Painter: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (After)

Juliette Récamier

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Parker, George
Painter: Cosway, Richard (After)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hicks, Robert
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co.
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Light as Love!

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Knight, Charles

An image of Album

A Collection of prints, from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating the dramatic works of Shakspeare [sic], by the artists of Great Britain. Volume II.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Boydell, John
Publisher: Boydell, Josiah
Printmaker: Smith, Benjamin
Printmaker: Leney, William Satchwell
Printmaker: Simon, Jean Pierre
Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Printmaker: Schiavonetti, Luigi
Printmaker: Ryder, Thomas
Printmaker: Taylor, Isaac, II
Printmaker: Middiman, Samuel
Printmaker: Facius, Georg Sigmund
Printmaker: Facius, Johann Gottlieb
Printmaker: Hellyer, Thomas
Printmaker: Caldwall, James
Printmaker: Legat, Francis
Printmaker: Skelton, William
Printmaker: Collyer, Joseph
Printmaker: Scriven, Edward
Printmaker: Kirk, Thomas
Printmaker: Burke, Thomas
Printmaker: Earlom, Richard
Printmaker: Sharp, William
Printmaker: Gaugain, Thomas
Printmaker: Ogborne, John I
Printmaker: Thew, Robert
Painter: Various (After)

Brisé fan

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

An image of Print

A Venetian Lady

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Picot, Victor Marie
Painter: Peters, Matthew William (After)
Publisher: Picot, Victor Marie

Shakespear’s Beautiful Idea on the Seven Ages of Man

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Fores, Samuel William (After)
Painter: Gear, Joseph C. (After)

Two women at a memorial

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Folding fan commemorating the marriage of George, Prince of Wales, and Caroline of Brunswick

Maker(s)

Maker: Sudlow's Fan Warehouse

The Rising Sun

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kirk, Thomas
Painter: Reni, Guido (After)

The Ladies Bill of Fare or a Copious Collection of Beaux

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Wilson, George (18thC)

Lovers in a garden

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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