Aquatint

Scope note

A printing process in which resin or other substance is applied to a plate to make a porous ground, and the plate is then heated and etched, producing a range of tonal value; often combined with line work. PRTT

This term has 919 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053242

Broader Terms used

<etching (printmaking process)>

Narrower Terms used

Equivalent Terms used

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

His Majesty Receiving the Volunteeer Corps assembled in Hyde Park, in honor of his Birthday, June 4. 1799

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Earlom, Richard
Printmaker: Smirke, Robert
Architect: Smirke, Robert (After)

Barry 13

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Flanagan, Barry
Printer: Gresham, Kip
Printer: Hill, James
Publisher: Flanagan, Barry
Printer: The Print Studio, Cambridge

An image of Print

A Modern Cherub. Vide Peters

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

"Miss I have a Monstrous Crow to Pluck with you!!"

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

An image of Print

Morning Preparation

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

The Eruption of the Mountain, -or, The Horrors of the "Bocca del Inferno" -with the head of the Protector Saint Januarius carried in procession by the cardinal Archevêque of the Lazaroni"

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

French Habits Nr. 12; Messager d'Etat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

The Generae of Patriotism, -or the Bloomsbury Farmer, planting Bedfordshire wheat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

An image of Print

A Noble Lord, on an approaching Peace, too busy to attend to the Eapenditure of a Million of the public Money

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Phillips, R.

An image of Print

Evening Consolation

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

Tom Paine's Nightly Pest

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

Lady D[iana] Beauclerks children

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beauclerk, Diana, Lady

Rev.d Samuel Rogers A.M.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hibbart, William

View of London from Greenwich Park

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Stadler, Joseph Constantine
Publisher: Boydell, John

Shrine at St Ann's Hill

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

Diana

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Réfuge de l’innocence

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Truth on a cloud kneeling on Envy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Prestel, Johann Gottlieb
Painter: Ligozzi, Jacopo (After)

An image of Print

Vue de la Ville de Thoune

Maker(s)

Cathedral entrance

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lee, Sydney

Chiamut and the Oberalp Pass

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

Petit Masque de Satyre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Legros, Alphonse

The Castle of Meerburg

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

Sunset from Deutz

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

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