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

Giuseppe Haydn

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

An image of Print

John Fane, Lord Burghersh

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

The Earl of Leicester

Maker(s)

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

Edward Lord Thurlow

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)
Publisher: Poggi, Antonio Cesare

An image of Print

Maximillian I, King of Bavaria, when Prince-Elector

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Goepffert, Karl
Painter: Dryad, Ltd. (After)

Sir Wiliam Henry Ashurst

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jones, John
Painter: Plott, John (After)

An image of Print

Mr Jan de Witt

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Charles James Fox

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lane, William
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)
Publisher: Lane, William

Louis XVI, King of France, making his will on the eve of his execution

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Keating, George
Painter: Singleton, Henry (After)

An image of Print

Self portrait (?)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Marcus, Jakob Ernst

An image of Print

Henry de Lorraine, comte d'Harcourt

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ridé

An image of Print

Joseph Shepherd Munden

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Portrait of William Woollett

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Painter: Stuart, Gabriel (After)
Publisher: Boydell, John

Louisa. The celebrated Maid of the Hay-stack

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Tomkins, Peltro William
Painter: Palmer, William (After)
Publisher: Palmer, William

An image of Print

Selima & Scander

Maker(s)

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

Lovelace in Prison

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter: Rigaud, John Francis (After)
Publisher: Dickinson, William

An image of Print

The Honble. Maria and Louisa Holroyd

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baldrey, John
Painter: Downman, John (After)
Publisher: Baldrey, John

An image of Print

Oh! Che Boccone!

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Burke, Thomas
Painter: Sicard, Louis Marie (After)
Publisher: Sicard, Louis Marie

Oh! Che Boccone!

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Painter: Sicard, Louis Marie (After)

Miss Farren

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter: Lawrence, Thomas (After)
Publisher: Jeffryes, John

Setting out to the Fair

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Eginton, John
Painter: Wheatley, Francis (After)
Publisher: Jee, Edward
Publisher: Eginton, Francis II

Lady Elizabeth Foster

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)
Publisher: Dickinson, William

War

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Whessell, John
Painter: Singleton, Henry (After)
Publisher: Simpson, Thomas (C18th)

Louisa Hammond

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter: Kauffmann, Angelica (After)
Publisher: Philipe, Thomas

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