Engraving

Scope note

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.

Term type

AAT
Technique
Reproduction type
Inscription type
Material

Getty AAT term number

300053231

Broader Terms used

<engraving (printmaking process)>

Narrower Terms used

copper engraving (printmaking process)
roulette

Term used for

Equivalent Terms used

burin work
copper engraving
line-engraving
line engraving

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Le Rendez-vous pour Marly

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Moreau, Jean Michel the younger
Printmaker: Guttenberg, Carl

An image of Print

La Fillette au Volant

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lépicié, Bernard
Painter: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon (After)

Les philosophes bacchiques

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe
Painter: Teniers, David II (After)
Publisher: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe

Jusques Dans La Moindre Chose...

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Masquelier, Louis Joseph
Painter: Baudouin, Pierre Antoine (After)

Comptez sur mes serments

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Saint Aubin, Augustin de
Draughtsman: Saint Aubin, Augustin de (After)

L'Alliance de Bacchus et de Venus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe
Draughtsman: Coypel, Noël Nicolas (After)

Rose et Colas

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Simonet, Jean Baptiste Blaise
Draughtsman: Baudouin, Pierre Antoine (After)

An image of Print

La Maitresse d'Ecole

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lépicié, Bernard
Painter: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon (After)
Publisher: Surugue, Louis

Le Château de Cartes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Painter: Eisen, Charles Joseph Dominique (After)

An image of Print

L’Œconome

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe
Painter: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon (After)
Publisher: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe

An image of Print

L’Œconome

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe
Painter: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon (After)
Publisher: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe

La Laitière

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Levasseur, Jean Charles
Greuze, Jean Baptiste (After)

An image of Print

L'Inclination de l'Age

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Surugue, Pierre-Louis de
Painter: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon (After)
Publisher: Surugue, Pierre-Louis de

Le pot au lait

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ponce, Nicolas
Painter: Fragonard, Jean Honoré (After)

La morale inutile

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Voysard, Étienne Claude
Draughtsman: Borel, Antoine (After)
Publisher: Voysard, Étienne Claude

Le danger du Tête-a-tête

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Simonet, Jean Baptiste Blaise
Draughtsman: Baudouin, Pierre Antoine (After)
Publisher: Basan, Pierre François

Représentation des Jeux, Danses et Exercices avec Epées, Exécutés sous le bon plaisir et en présence de sa Majesté Louis XV, le 9 Octobre 1744...

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe
Draughtsman: Weis, Johann Martin (After)

Les Garants de la Felicité Publique

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Née, François Denis
Printmaker: Masquelier, Louis Joseph
Painter: Saint-Quentin, Jacques Philippe Joseph de (After)

Représentation d’une place de Strasbourg Vuë du Côté de la Porte de Saverne / Le Roi Louis XV traversa cette Place le jour de son entrée

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe
Draughtsman: Weis, Johann Martin (After)

An image of Print

La Bonne Mere

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Weis, Johann Martin
Painter: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon (Formerly attributed)

La nature étaloit à nos yeux toute sa magnificence.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Simonet, Jean Baptiste Blaise
Draughtsman: Moreau, Jean Michel the younger (After)

An image of Print

Le Peintre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Surugue, Pierre-Louis de
Painter: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon (After)
Publisher: Surugue, Pierre-Louis de

Le Jouer

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Delignon, Jean Louis
Painter: Moreau, Jean Michel the younger (After)

Le Sicilien, ou l'Amour peintre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Moreau, Jean Michel the younger

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