Printing process that produces images in line and with little tonal quality; the plate, usually of copper, is incised using a burin, the slight burr produced is scraped away, and the plate is inked for intaglio printing. OCA
This term has 20,804 records attributed within our system.
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14yrs ago
Printmaker:
Drevet, Pierre
Painter:
Rigaud, Hyacinthe
(After)
Printmaker:
Houbraken, Jacobus
Painter:
Aikman, William
(After)
Printmaker:
Drevet, Pierre
Painter:
Rigaud, Hyacinthe
(After)
Printmaker:
Schmutzer, Jakob Matthias
Painter:
Tocqué, Louis
(After)
Printmaker:
Houbraken, Jacobus
Painter:
Kneller, Godfrey, baronety
(After)
Printmaker:
Edelinck, Gérard
Painter:
Troy, François de
(After)
Printmaker:
Houbraken, Jacobus
Painter:
Kneller, Godfrey, baronety
(After)
Printmaker:
Edelinck, Gérard
Painter:
Champaigne, Philippe de
(After)
Printmaker:
Houbraken, Jacobus
Painter:
Kneller, Godfrey, baronety
(After)
Printmaker:
Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher:
Poggi, Antonio Cesare
Painter:
West, Benjamin
(After)
Publisher:
Boydell, Josiah
Printmaker:
Sandby, Paul
(Aquatinter)
Printmaker:
Baron, C.
Painter:
Drouais, François Hubert
(After)
Drouais, François Hubert
(Printmaker)
Printmaker:
Gregori, Carlo
Painter:
Campiglia, Giovanni Domenico
(After)
Printmaker:
Storer, James
Painter:
Holmes, George
(After)
Printmaker:
Gaucher, Charles Étienne
Painter:
Dasvene, P.
(After)
Printmaker:
Tanjé, Pieter
Publisher:
Societas Bibliopolae Roterodamensis
Draughtsman:
Sanders, Gerard
(After)
Painter:
Wissing, Willem
(After)
Printmaker:
Houbraken, Jacobus
Painter:
Pond, Arthur
(After)
Printmaker:
Vermeulen, Cornelis
Painter:
Largillière, Nicolas de
(After)
Printmaker: Nanteuil, Robert
Printmaker:
Houbraken, Jacobus
Painter:
Knapton, George
(After)
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