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

Dead chameleon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pannekoek, Frans Lodewijk

The Festival

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph
Publisher: Trusler, John

View of the Lake of Averno

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sandby, Paul
Publisher: Sandby, Paul
Publisher: Robinson, Archibald
Draughtsman: Fabris, Pietro (After)

Untitled [grave robbers]

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph

The Bengal Levee

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

Child soldier 1

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hanselaar, Marcelle

View of Unterseen (Bern)

Maker(s)

English Travelling, or The First Stage from Dover

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Rowlandson, Thomas (After)
Printmaker: Jukes, Francis
Publisher: Smith, T. (publisher)

View of King's College

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Mason, W.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Harraden, James
Printmaker: Harraden, Richard (After)

Oliver Cromwell

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Velde, Jan van de IV
Painter: Walker, Robert (After)

Inkle and Yarico. Plate 1st

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pollard, Robert
Painter: Singleton, Henry (After)
Publisher: Birchall, James

An image of Print

Julia asleep

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Auerbach, Frank
Printer: Balakjian, Marc

Quartier d’Hiver IV

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Titus-Carmel, Gérard

A Vestal of -93, Trying on the Cestus of Venus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

Message

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Asse, Geneviève

An image of Print

Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Fores, Samuel William

John-Bull, Baited by the Dogs of Excise

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

An image of Print

The minister endeavouring to eke out Dr Pr*ty***n's bisho-prick

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Phillips, R.

Narette I

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Garache, Claude

An image of Print

Sacra Christi Familia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Barry, James
Draughtsman: Barry, James (After)
Painter: Sanzio, Raffaello (After)

A Stranger at Sparta

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Printmaker: Pastorini, Benedetto
Draughtsman: Dance-Holland, Nathaniel (After)

La Rue Notre Dame, Dieppe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sickert, Walter Richard

Modern appearance of the inside of that which was the Praetorian Gate of the Castle at Pevensey.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Stadler, Joseph Constantine
Draughtsman: Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus (After)

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