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Drawing (image-making)

Scope note

Producing visible forms primarily by delineation, usually by the direct application of material or instrument to the surface of the support.

This term has 4,122 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300054196

Broader Terms used

<drawing and drawing techniques>

Narrower Terms used

architectural drawing (technique)
ink drawing
tinted drawing

Term used for

arts, graphic
graphic arts

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Medea ; Hippolytus ; The Bacchae

Maker(s)

Author: Euripides
Translator: Vellacott, Philip
Illustrator: Ayrton, Michael
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Designer: Carter, Will
Printer: Curwen Press
Printer: Photogravure and Color Company

The painted inscriptions of David Jones by Nicolete Grey

Maker(s)

Publisher: Scolar Press
Publisher: Gordon Fraser

Salammbô

Maker(s)

Author: Flaubert, Gustave
Contributor: O'Brien, Justin
Illustrator: Bawden, Edward
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Designer: Dreyfus, John
Printer: Cambridge University Press

The Dead Sea scrolls

Maker(s)

Translator: Vermes, Geza
Illustrator: Weil, Shraga
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Printer: Westerham Press
Typographer: Friedlaender, Henri

The twilight of orthodoxy in New England

Maker(s)

Author: Nykamp, William
Designer: D'Ambrosio
Publisher: Santa Susana Press

The sonnets of Petrarch, in the original Italian together with English translations

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Editor: Bergin, Thomas G.
Illustrator: Salvadori, Aldo
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Designer: Mardersteig, Giovanni
Designer: Officina Bodoni
Printer: Stamperia Valdónega

Mercury

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

Interior of a large room, with Oriental and European figures

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

An image of Drawing

Study of hands, holding a muzzle

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von

A landscape in Italy

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Kobell, Ferdinand (Attributed to)

An image of MS 1-1939_4_201702_mfj22_dc1.jpg

Travel diary kept by E. H. Palmer

Maker(s)

Writer: Palmer, Edward Henry

Figures, horses and a carriage outside an inn

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bunbury, Henry William

An image of Drawing

George Isted

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lawrence, Thomas

An image of Drawing

Samuel Isted

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lawrence, Thomas

Pont St. Pierre, Caen

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Prout, Samuel

Abbeville

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Prout, Samuel

An image of Drawing

Elizabeth Siddal. Study for "Delia" in "The Return of Tibullus to Delia"

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Cassel

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Henderson, John I

An image of Drawing

Orvieto Cathedral

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bone, David Muirhead

Entrance to a chateau used as 15th Divisional Headquarters

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bone, David Muirhead

Flirtations in France 'In the Park'

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Caldecott, Randolph

An image of Drawing

A young girl leaning on a table

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Geddes, Andrew

An image of Drawing

Cupid with a group of putti

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico

An image of Drawing

A crowd of Orientals (full-length)

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico

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