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

Coastal view with a ship being towed out to sea

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

Emperor Francis II (?)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bottigella, Carlo

Vue du Mont Blanc prise de St. Martin

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hegi, Franz
Lory, Mathias Gabriel (Lory fils) (After)

An image of Print

Lac de Pusclave dans le Pais du Grisons

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bleuler, Johann Heinrich

An image of Print

Vue perspective de la vallée de Chamouni, du Mont-Blanc et des Montagnes adjacentes dans le haut Faucigny en Savoie

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mechel, Christian von
Publisher: Mechel, Christian von

Vallée de Bionnassey

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Salathé, Friedrich
Draughtsman: Lory, Gabriel Ludwig (Lory père)
Publisher: d'Osterwald, J. E.

St Martin

Maker(s)

Albanis de Beaumont, Jean-François

An image of Print

Vue de la petite isle d'Altstadt sur le lac de Lucerne, avec le Monument que le célebre Abbé Raynal y a fait eriger à la gloire des trois premiers Fondateurs de la Liberté Helvétique

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mechel, Christian von
Publisher: Mechel, Christian von

Dia dos de mayo de 1808 en Madrid. Asesinan los franceses á los patriotas en el Prado

Maker(s)

Publisher: Behrmann and Collmann
Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

A disturber to Traffic

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Strang, William

An image of Print

Frontispiece of Rudyard Kipling with puppets

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Strang, William

Hassell's Aqua Pictura

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassell, John
Draughtsman: Various (After)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Anglais en habit habillé

Maker(s)

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

Cosaque régulier de la garde

Maker(s)

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

Marche d'Officiers Anglais

Maker(s)

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

Le Casaque Galant

Maker(s)

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

Rencontre d'Officiers Anglais

Maker(s)

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

Mameluck Porte-Etendard

Maker(s)

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

Board Room of the Admiralty

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pugin, Augustus Charles
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph
Painter: Rowlandson, Thomas (After)
Printmaker: Hill, John (Aquatinter)

Bullock's Museum

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph

View of the bridge & pagoda, St James Park

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hamble, J. R.
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph
Painter: Pugin, Augustus Charles (After)

Margate, with the arrival of the Hoy

Maker(s)

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

Ramsgate, in a high gale

Maker(s)

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

Ramsgate, with a view of the new light-house

Maker(s)

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

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