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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

Ships on a calm sea and a spouting whale

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus

Venus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus
Painter: Elsheimer, Adam (After)

Eleven hounds

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus

Lady with pearl bracelets

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus
Publisher: Overton, John

Summer

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bosse, Abraham

Bishop

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus

L'Apparition (The vision)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Claude Lorrain

Aletheia (Talbot), Countess of Arundel and Surrey

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gaywood, Richard

An image of Print

Woman lying on a bed

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

An image of Print

Woman sitting half dressed beside a stove

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

St Anthony-Dike and surroundings, plate one

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Nolpe, Pieter
Esselens, Jacob (After)

The Plague

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Courtois, Guillaume
Publisher: Belli, Vincenzo

Siege of Maastricht by Alexander of Parma

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Miele, Jan

Capture of Maastricht

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Miele, Jan

An image of Print

The Hundred Guilder Print

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

A country wedding or 'Het Boere Bruytje'

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Visscher, Johannes
Publisher: Danckerts, Justus
Draughtsman: Ostade, Adriaen van (After)

An image of Print

The Hundred Guilder Print

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

The presentation of Christ in the Temple

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Courtois, Guillaume
Publisher: Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de'
Painter: Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (After)

Martyrdom of St Laurence

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Callot, Jacques (Formerly attriubted)

Frieze-like composition with Ceres sewing seeds behind a plough drawn by a goat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Brebiette, Pierre
Publisher: Langlois, François (Ciartres)

Frieze-like composition with procession of nymphs escorting Silenus on a donkey

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Brebiette, Pierre
Publisher: Langlois, François (Ciartres)

Holy Family

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Valckert, Werner Jacobsz. van den

Landscape with an old woman collecting Phocion's ashes, a young woman beside her; the city of Megara in the distance

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baudet, Etienne
Painter: Poussin, Nicolas (After)

Landscape with two men carrying Phocion's body

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baudet, Etienne
Painter: Poussin, Nicolas (After)

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