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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

An image of Print

C'est là la grande revue

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raffet, Auguste
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

The Aegean Suite

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hepworth, Barbara
Publisher: Curwen Press

The Stream

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blampied, Edmund

The Aegean Suite

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hepworth, Barbara
Publisher: Curwen Press

An image of Print

La Vieille et les deux servantes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Horace
Printer: Aubert
Publisher: Aubert

An image of Print

Artillerie Légère en grande tenue

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bellangé, Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte
Printer: Engelmann, Godefroy

An image of Print

L'ennemi ne se doute pas que nous sommes là

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Je veux tuer un des soldats de Polignac

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raffet, Auguste
Printer: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

Le Giaour

Maker(s)

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

The Aegean Suite

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hepworth, Barbara
Publisher: Curwen Press

An image of Print

Tout çâ n vaut point mon doux falaise...

Maker(s)

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

Les puissances européennes étant intervenues dans la question d'Orient, le jeune sultan a cru devoir prendre une attitude

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Aubert

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

Mameluck levant le bras gauche

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Carle
Printer: Lasteyrie du Saillant, Charles Philibert, Comte de

An image of Print

La Mort du cuirassier

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Printer: Lasteyrie du Saillant, Charles Philibert, Comte de

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

Soldier having his wounds attended by two nuns

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

1820 Piété (Triomphe de la Religion)

Maker(s)

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

An image of Print

Carle Vernet en pied, dessinant

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Horace
Printer: Motte, Charles

An image of Print

La dernière charette

Maker(s)

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

Macédoine aux agrès de barque

Maker(s)

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

Macédoine (bateaux et pêcheurs)

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

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

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