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

Dos grupos de picadores arrollados de seguida por un solo toro.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de

Charles-Quint "lanceado" un taureau dans la place de Valladolid.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
Printer: Beillet, A.
Publisher: Loizelet, Eugène

Le même Ceballos monté sur un taureau brise des "rejoncillos" dans la place de Madrid.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
Printer: Beillet, A.
Publisher: Loizelet, Eugène

Portrait of Anna Hirsch (1856-1925)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Orlik, Emil

Autre folie du même dans la place de Saragosse.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
Printer: Beillet, A.
Publisher: Loizelet, Eugène

Chapeau et Guitare - Frontispice pour le cahier de quatorze eaux-fortes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Manet, Edouard

Le Nègre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rouault, Georges

Homme de profil, vers la gauche

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rouault, Georges

The "Evening Star" in her last berth

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Short, Frank, Sir

A Silver Tide

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Short, Frank, Sir

Hanover from the N. E.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cartwright, Joseph
Designer: Ramberg, Johann Heinrich
Publisher: Orme, Edward

Basket of flowers

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Emeric, Honorine

Saumur from the Pont de la Croix-Verte ?

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Brunet-Debaines, Alfred Louis
Designer: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (After)

An image of Print

Les Plaisirs du Printemps

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gabriel
Printer: Jouy

En nage

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Legrand, Louis
Publisher: Pellet, G.

Rural scene with church in the background

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassell, John

L'Eau : Vous chantez cette romance à merveille

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Legrand, Paul
Designer: Tassaert, Octave (After)
Publisher: Turgis, M. V.

View of the Source of the Arve

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mérigot, J.
Painter: Bélanger, Louis (After)
Publisher: Nicoll, G. & W.
Publisher: Gabriel Dufour, G. E.

Twi-light, Warwick Castle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Reeve, Richard Gilson
Designer: Cox, David, the elder (After)
Publisher: Fuller, S. & J.

View of the End of the Grand Gallery, towards Italy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Noctes Ambrosianae

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sickert, Walter Richard

Landscape with a village on the bank of a river

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Prestel, Maria Katharina
Draughtsman: Weirotter, Franz Edmund (After)
Publisher: Hüsger, H. S.

Old woman with three demons

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Wiralt, Edvard

St Paul

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gini, Cesare Massimiliano
Draughtsman: Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) (After)

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