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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

Untitled abstract composition

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hepworth, Barbara

An image of Print

La Leçon de danse

Maker(s)

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

La chatte metamorphosée en Femme

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Horace (Attributed)
Printer: Aubert
Publisher: Aubert

An image of Print

Le second coup de feu

Maker(s)

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

Caporal , v'nez r'connaître.

Maker(s)

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

Macédoine aux canards

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Isabey, Eugène
Printer: Lemercier & Cie
Publisher: Rittner
Publisher: Osterwald, Georg
Publisher: Tilt, Charles

Croquis par divers artistes

Maker(s)

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

Croquis par divers artistes

Maker(s)

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

Croquis par divers artistes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lepoittevin, Eugene
Printer: Lemercier & Cie
Publisher: Rittner
Publisher: Osterwald, Georg
Publisher: Tilt, Charles

Croquis par divers artistes

Maker(s)

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

Croquis par divers artistes

Maker(s)

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

Peterborough Cathedral. Interior of Thomas a Beckett's chapel. Now used as a grammar school.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Buckler, Edward H.
Publisher: Clarke, J. S.

Football Match

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ermolaev, Boris Nikolaevich

Un attelage de porteur d'eau

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gavarni, Paul
Printer: Bertauts

An image of Print

Vieux cheval à la porte d'une auberge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore
Printmaker: Volmar, Joseph Simon
Printer: Villain, Jean-François
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

Six pouces de jambes et le dos tout de suite

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gavarni, Paul
Publisher: Bauger
Printer: Aubert et Cie

Gentleman, head and shoulders, wearing a black cravat with a pin

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lane, Richard James

An image of Print

Chevaux conduits à l'écorcheur

Maker(s)

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

The Odalisque

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Keen, Henry

Interior of The Maginficent New Crystal Palace at Sydenham

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Read & Co.

A Staircase, Narbonne

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Fry, Roger Eliot

Gentleman, seated in an armchair, with a newspaper and spectacles on his lap

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lane, Richard James

An image of Print

A bear attacking a deer

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore (Attributed to)
Printer: Gihaut, Jean François
Publisher: Tilt, Charles

The Girl by the Lamp

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gosse, Sylvia

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