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Lithography

Scope note

Planographic printing process in which a design is deposited on the stone or plate with a greasy substance and the surface is chemically treated to accept ink only in the greasy areas.

This term has 4,456 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053271

Broader Terms used

<planographic printmaking processes>

Narrower Terms used

chromolithography
color lithography
lithotint
offset lithography
pen lithography
transfer lithography
zincography

Term used for

lithograhpy

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Print

Croquis par divers artistes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel
Printer: Lemercier & Cie
Publisher: Rittner
Publisher: Osterwald, Georg
Publisher: Tilt, Charles

An image of Print

Tout çâ n vaut point mon doux falaise...

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

The Harvest Moon (Reapers)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Clausen, George

An image of Print

Carle Vernet en pied, dessinant

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Horace
Printer: Motte, Charles

La Fontaine de Cibèle et la Porte d'Alcala à Madrid.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bacler d'Albe, Baron Louis Albert Guillain
Printer: Engelmann, Godefroy

An image of Print

Croquis par divers artistes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel
Printer: Lemercier & Cie
Publisher: Rittner
Publisher: Osterwald, Georg
Publisher: Tilt, Charles

Le Scmaddribach, Vallée de Lauterbrunnen (Canton de Berne)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Calame, Alexandre
Printer: Schmid

An image of Print

A sheet of lithographic sketches

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bellangé, Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François
Publisher: Gans, S.

An image of Print

Soldier having his wounds attended by two nuns

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Thierriat, Augustin-Alexandre
Printer: Engelmann, Godefroy

Guirlande de fleurs

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Français, Louis
Painter: Geertgen tot Sint Jans (After)
Printer: Bertauts
Publisher: Challamel

An image of Print

Conrad sauve Gulnare de l'incendie (Le Corsaire, de Byron)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Horace

Croquis par divers artistes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel
Printer: Lemercier & Cie
Publisher: Rittner
Publisher: Osterwald, Georg
Publisher: Tilt, Charles

Sheet of studies (horses, children, rural scenes)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cooper, Thomas Sydney

Woodland scene

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Calame, Alexandre
Painter: Calame, Alexandre (After)
Printer: Jacomme & Compagnie
Publisher: Delarue, F.

Scrivano

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dura, Gaetano
Printer: Gatti, Francesco

Worum legst de denn den Sattel verkehrt uf's Pferd ?

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Camphausen, Wilhelm
Printer: Arnz & Co.

Vue prise à Cauteretz, département des hautes Pyrénées

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bourgeois, Constant
Printer: Delpech, François Séraphin

Three ladies and a man in a salon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Devéria, Eugène

Etude No. 7

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jaime, Ernest
Painter: Bonington, Richard Parkes (After)
Printer: Ducarme
Publisher: Giraldon-Bovinet

Le Mont Sinaï

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dauzats, Adrien
Printer: Bertauts

Charles V., visiting Francis I. after the battle of Pavia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Harding, James Duffield
Designer: Bonington, Richard Parkes (After)
Printer: Hullmandel, Charles Joseph
Publisher: Carpenter, J. & Son

The Portland Vase

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printer: Burton, C.

Ecoute donc mon petit lapin ? (Une racoleuse)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Grandville, J. J.
Printer: Langlumé
Publisher: Lean

Head of a woman in profile

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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