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.
AAT
Technique
300053239
engraving, stipple (printmaking process)
stipple-engraved
stipple-engraving
stipple (printmaking process)
stipple engraving
14yrs ago
Printmaker:
Watson, Caroline
Publisher:
Pine, Robert Edge
Painter:
Pine, Robert Edge
(After)
Printmaker:
Watson, Caroline
Painter:
Gainsborough, Thomas
(After)
Printmaker:
Earlom, Richard
Publisher:
Evans, Benjamin Beale
Painter:
Rubens, Peter Paul
(After)
Printmaker:
Bartolozzi, Francesco
Romney, George
(After)
Draughtsman:
Bunbury, Henry William
(After)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Publisher:
Dickinson, William
Printmaker:
Facius, Johann Gottlieb
Painter:
Opie, John
(After)
Printmaker:
Sergent-Marceau, Antoine Louis François
Printmaker:
Phelippeaux, Antoine
Draughtsman:
Saint-Aubin, Augustin de
(After)
Printmaker:
Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter:
Reynolds, Joshua
(After)
Draughtsman:
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista
(After)
Publisher:
Macklin, Thomas
Printmaker:
Leney, William Satchwell
Publisher:
Bell, John (publisher)
Painter:
De Wilde, Samuel
(After)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Publisher:
Harding, Sylvester
Painter:
Unknown
(After)
Printmaker:
Cheesman, Thomas
Painter:
Romney, George
(After)
Publisher:
Shakespeare Gallery
Printmaker:
Walker, William
Painter:
Raeburn, Henry
(After)
Publisher:
Walker, William
Printmaker:
Meyer, Henry Hoppner
Publisher:
Cadell & Davies
Draughtsman:
Jackson, John
(After)
Painter:
Reynolds, Joshua
(After)
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