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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 4,451 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

13yrs ago

Connected records

Scipio Africanus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Sinbad The Sailor and The Old Man Of The Sea [last three words struck through]

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Leap Frog Down Constitution Hill

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas
Draughtsman: Monogrammist A (with John Doyle [HB]) (After)

A Very Prophetical And Pathetical Allegory

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Mistake And No Mistake

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

The Royal Agricultural Society's show yard at Cambridge, July 14th 1840

Maker(s)

Unknown
Printer: Metcalfe and Palmer

Sketch of the Coronation Fete on Parker's Piece, Cambridge, on June 28th, 1838

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printer: Metcalfe and Palmer

Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, &c.

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Printmaker: Lear, Edward
Publisher: Bentley, Richard

Salt

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Yunkers, Adja

An image of Print

Tremblez, ennemis de la France !

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Printer: Villain, Jean-François
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

The Aegean Suite

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hepworth, Barbara
Publisher: Curwen Press

An image of Print

Serrez les rangs !

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raffet, Auguste
Printer: Gihaut, Jean François
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

A sheet of lithographic sketches

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bellangé, Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte
Printer: Villain, Jean-François
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

La Fiancée d'Abydos

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore
Printmaker: Lami, Eugène Louis
Printer: Villain, Jean-François
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

Le tems de manger la soupe

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Le premier coup de feu

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Printer: Villain, Jean-François
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

Shepherd seated by a rock with a dog and a child

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Printer: Villain, Jean-François
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

Le réveil

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raffet, Auguste
Painter: Raffet, Auguste (After)
Printer: Bry, Auguste
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

Le Singe et le Léopard

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Carle
Printer: Engelmann, Godefroy

An image of Print

Bonaparte, Général en chef de l'armée d'Egypte. (Campagne de Syrie)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raffet, Auguste
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

La Tempête, d'après Joseph Vernet

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Carle
Painter: Vernet, Joseph (After)
Printer: Villain, Jean-François

An image of Print

Napoléon (assis au pied d'un arbre)

Maker(s)

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

Rosemary, Devon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bevan, Robert Polhill

The Aegean Suite

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hepworth, Barbara
Publisher: Curwen Press

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