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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300053231
14yrs ago
Printmaker:
Nanteuil, Robert
Painter:
Champaigne, Philippe de
(After)
Publisher:
Hamilton, Gavin
Printmaker:
Volpato, Giovanni Trevisan
Printmaker:
Cunego, Domenico
Printmaker:
Capellan, Antonio
Printmaker:
Campanella, Angelo
Printmaker:
Tinti, Camillo
Printmaker:
Lonsing, François Joseph
Printmaker:
Perini, Giuseppe Sforza
Printmaker:
Desrochers, Étienne
Painter:
Maratti, Carlo
(After)
Printmaker:
Tardieu, Nicolas Henri
Painter:
Ingegno (Andrea di Luigi)
(After)
Printmaker:
Tanjé, Pieter
Printmaker:
Houbraken, Jacobus
(Previously attributed)
Draughtsman:
Schouman, Aert
(After)
Printmaker:
Kessel, Theodorus van
Publisher:
Neyt, Herman de
Painter:
Rubens, Peter Paul
(After)
Printmaker:
Faucci, Carlo
Draughtsman:
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista
(After)
Painter:
Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
(After)
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