Wash

Scope note

Broad, thin film of highly diluted pigment. A-Z

This term has 390 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Material
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300011051

Broader Terms used

<coating by form>

Narrower Terms used

black wash
bodycolour wash
coloured wash
ink wash
monochrome wash
oil wash
red chalk wash
watercolour wash
white wash

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

The village divided by a dyke

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Wit, Pieter de
Printmaker: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Formerly attributed to)

John La Motte

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Faithorne, William (After)

Tombs of the Popes, St. Peter, Gregory XIII and Leo XI, Rome

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Roberts, David

An image of Drawing

Figures on a beach

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Penley, Aaron Edwin

Queen's College, Cambridge

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Cowern, Raymond Teague

An image of Drawing

Mrs. Beyer

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

An image of Drawing

Elizabeth Siddal, seated on the ground

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

An image of Drawing

Organist with seated vocal acompanist in a ?church

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Diepenbeeck, Abraham Jansz. van

An image of Drawing

A view of Krakatoa

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Webber, John (Attributed to)

A preliminary drawing for The Introduction of the Pope to the Convocation at Oxford by the Cardinal Broad-Bottom, 1809

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Gillray, James

Pembroke Castle

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Glover, John (Style of ?)

An image of Drawing

Seaport with figures

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Claude Lorrain

Unidentified subject (Allegory of Wisdom?)

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

An image of Drawing

Man on horseback, holding a falcon, with two dogs in a landscape

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

An image of Print

Job and his Daughters

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William
Publisher: Blake, William
Publisher: Linnell, John

An image of Drawing

Self portrait

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Dalen, Cornelis II van

An image of Drawing

The Baths of Antoninus

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Breenbergh, Bartholomeus (Attributed to)

An image of Drawing

Landscape with a gypsy encampment

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Vinne, Vincent Laurentsz. I van der (Possibly)

An image of Drawing

Hilly landscape with a waterfall and peasants herding cattle near a river

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Begeyn, Abraham

An image of Drawing

A Dutch ship close hauled in a breeze

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Backhuysen, Ludolf

An image of Drawing

Noli me Tangere

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Semino, Andrea

"Le Viaduc"

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Marchand, Jean Hippolyte

An image of Print

Job's Evil Dreams

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William
Publisher: Blake, William
Publisher: Linnell, John

View on the River Stour

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lucas, David
Painter: Constable, John (After)

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