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

Blueprints

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Oulton, Thérèse
Publisher: Marlborough

Grüne Punkte

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baselitz, Georg

Pear and Rose – Moyens d’existence

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Magritte, René

Portrait of Stravinsky

Maker(s)

Vue de l'entrée de la grande Chartreuse du côté de Grenoble

Maker(s)

Albanis de Beaumont, Jean-François

Tableau des papiers et monnoyes avec l'échelle de proportion de leur valeur pendant leurs cours adopté par le conseil des Anciens le 5 Messidor An.V

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

Toomai of the Elephants

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Strang, William

Adam resolved to share the fate of Eve

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Haughton, Moses II
Printmaker: Lewis, Frederick Christian I
Publisher: Haughton, Moses II
Painter: Fuseli, Johann Heinrich (After)

Adieux d'un Russe a une Parisienne

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Debucourt, Philibert Louis
Draughtsman: Vernet, Carle (After)

Mameluck

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Debucourt, Philibert Louis
Draughtsman: Vernet, Carle (After)

Promenade Anglaise

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Debucourt, Philibert Louis
Draughtsman: Vernet, Carle (After)

The Mathew-Orama for 1827 - being the Home Circuit or Cockney Gleanings "Look at Home"_"Look abroad"_"Look every where."

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Heath, Henry
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

The Passengers from the waggon arriving at the Inn

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rowlandson, Thomas
Draughtsman: Woodward, George Moutard (After)
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph

Running

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bluck, John
Draughtsman: Rowlandson, Thomas (After)

Original Etchings by George Hayter Historical and Portrait painter to his Majesty of Belgium and member of the Academy of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Palma, and Venice. Forty-Six Etchings. Printed for James Rimell & Son, 400, Oxford Street MDCCCLXXIX

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hayter, George
Publisher: Rimmel, James

George Street, Hanover Sqre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph

An image of Valentine card

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

1812 Patria 1820'

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Brighthelmstone, fishermen returning

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Stadler, Joseph Constantine
Publisher: Bowyer, Robert
Draughtsman: Loutherbourg, Philip James de (After)

Margate, from the parade

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Stadler, Joseph Constantine
Publisher: Bowyer, Robert
Draughtsman: Loutherbourg, Philip James de (After)

An image of Print

Route de St Cloud

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Debucourt, Philibert Louis
Draughtsman: Vernet, Carle (After)

An image of Print

1. Solvitur acris hyems - it thaws - we must be off to Melton 2. Go! I fancy he can! Milton loquitur upon my soul a lie! Shakespeare 3. Doing a bit of City

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Alken, Henry Thomas
Publisher: Fuller, S. & J.
Draughtsman: Paul, John Dean (After)

An image of Print

Route de Poissy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Debucourt, Philibert Louis
Draughtsman: Vernet, Carle (After)

An image of Print

Marchand de vin des environs de Rome

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Debucourt, Philibert Louis
Draughtsman: Vernet, Carle (After)

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