Soft-ground etching

Scope note

Use for the printing process in which the ground is mixed with a soft substance, such as tallow, allowing the rendering of textured lines and areas when the plate is etched. Sometimes, paper is placed over the grounded plate and drawn on, to pick up the ground.

This term has 153 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053251

Broader Terms used

<etching (printmaking process)>

Term used for

etching, soft-ground
soft ground
soft ground etching
soft-ground
soft-ground technique
vernis mou

Equivalent Terms used

soft-ground etchings

Created

12yrs ago

Connected records

A Gatehouse

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

A cow

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Delâtre, Auguste
Draughtsman: Jacque, Charles Émile (After)

The Castle of Meerburg

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

Knittlingen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

Gorcum

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

Ilanz on the Upper Rhine

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

An image of Print

La Danse a la Campagne

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Renoir, Pierre Auguste

An old fen mill

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Charles John

Meersburg, Lake of Constance

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

Unidentified

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

Albertville

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Frankl, Gerhart

Woman sewing

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gosse, Sylvia

Mondnacht

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Frankl, Gerhart

Constance from the Lake

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

Heildelberg from the Philosophenhöhe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Coulton, George Gordon

An image of Print

Sur la scène (2ème planche)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Degas, Edgar

Sheep

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivares, Thomas
Publisher: Thompson, John P.
Draughtsman: Morland, George (After)
Publisher: Harris, John (publisher I)

Two boys fishing

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivares, Thomas
Draughtsman: Morland, George (After)
Publisher: Thompson, John P.
Publisher: Harris, John (publisher I)

Goats

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivares, Thomas
Draughtsman: Morland, George (After)
Publisher: Harris, John (publisher I)
Publisher: Thompson, John P.

Woman from Constantinople with her child

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Wilkie, David (Attributed to)

Battersea

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivares, Thomas
Publisher: Hixon, Robert
Draughtsman: Serres, John 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

Landscape with a shepherd driving his flock along a path in the right foreground, another man past a bend in the road, in a yard of a farm-house sheltered by trees

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Francia, François Louis Thomas

Imitations of modern drawings

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Francia, François Louis Thomas

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