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Etching

This term has 21,716 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Broader Terms used

<etching (printmaking process)>

Narrower Terms used

white-ground etching

Equivalent Terms used

hard-ground etching

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Georges-Jacques Danton

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bertonnier, Pierre François
Publisher: Furne Fils

English & French taste or a peep into Paris

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Fores, Samuel William

An image of Print

A young man seated to the right playing a lap harp, a family group and two dogs to the left

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jeens, Charles Henry
Draughtsman: Paton, Joseph Noël (After)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Evans, Richard

The Advantages of travel;-or- "a little learning is a dangerous thing."-Plate 1

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cruikshank, George
Publisher: Humphrey, George

An image of Print

Portrait of Heinrich Heine

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jeens, Charles Henry

Giornata primo

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Fox, Augustus
Publisher: Pickering, William
Painter: Stothard, Thomas (After)

A little Music à la Françoise - Les Savoyards

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cruikshank, George
Publisher: Humphrey, George

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Fauchery, Jean Claude Auguste (Attributed)

A Peep at the French Monstrosities. Le Palais Royal - de Paris

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cruikshank, George
Publisher: Humphrey, George

Running to cover, with the Bore family in full cry

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Sir Charles rescues Miss Byron (Letter XXVII)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Smith, Anker
Publisher: Suttaby, Evance & Fox
Painter: Stothard, Thomas (After)

Edmund Bourke, Danish diplomat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Réveil, Achille

Social satire: three men seated on a bench in the street, the man in the middle reading from a sheet of paper; standing men gathered behind, looking over his shoulder; the man on the left of the bench is offering some snuff to a tall thin man dressed in grey

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Posselwhite, James
Painter: Ross, William Charles (After)

Casey in the Character of MacHeath

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rylot, R.
Publisher: Wilkinson, Robert
Draughtsman: Craig, D. (After)

Joséphine, Impératrice des Francais, Reine d'Italie

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Audouin, Pierre
Printmaker: Bovinet, Edme
Printmaker: Lerouge, Jean Nicolas
Draughtsman: Chasselat, Charles Abraham (After)
Painter: Laurent, Jean Antoine (After)
Publisher: Audouin, Pierre

Dandies having a treat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cruikshank, Robert

An image of Print

Statue of a woman in Victorian dress holding a candle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jeens, Charles Henry
Draughtsman: Bonham-Carter, Joanna Hilary (After)

Easter Monday, or the cockney hunt.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rowlandson, Thomas
Publisher: Rowlandson, Thomas

Posting in Ireland

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Gillray, James (After)

Miseries of travelling

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rowlandson, Thomas

Travelling in France or, Le depart de la Diligence.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cruikshank, George
Publisher: Humphrey, George

Durham House, Salisbury House and Worcester House on the banks of the river Thames

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Herbert, William
Publisher: Wilkinson, Robert
Draughtsman: Hollar, Wenceslaus (After)

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