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

Stefan Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Philipp Christoph, Archbishop of Trier and Bishop of Speyer

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Battalia the Stone Eater

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus

Bust portrait of Henrietta Maria

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus
Dyck, Anthony van

Music

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beham, Hans Sebald

Fall of the Giants

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Greuter, Matthaus (Attributed)
Printmaker: Callot, Jacques (Formerly attributed)
Painter: Cobaert, Jakob Cornelis (After)

Jupiter

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Solis, Virgilius, the elder

The Sermon on the Mount & Feeding the Four Thousand.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Solis, Virgilius, the elder

Stag Hunt

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Brosamer, Hans (After)

The Triumph of Eternity

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pencz, Georg

Die Briefsieglerin

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Eilers, Gustav
Painter: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon (After)

Idylle

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Geiste, August Christian
Printer: Brockhaus, F. A.
Publisher: Seeman, E. A.

Large Crucifixion in outline only

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Dürer, Albrecht (After)
Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht (Formerly attributed)

St Catherine of Alexandria standing in a landscape

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Master M. Z.

St Jerome

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Meckenem, Israhel van II

The Tournament

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Master M. Z.

St Simon and St Mathew

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Meckenem, Israhel van II

St Thomas and St James the Less

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Meckenem, Israhel van II

Memento Mori

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Master M. Z.

The temptation of Christ

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Monogrammist LCz
Printmaker: Katzheimer, Lorenz (Possibly)

The martyrdom of St Barbara

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Master M. Z.

The Virgin

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Meckenem, Israhel van II (Formerly attributed)

Marcus Curtius Plunging into the chasm

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cranach, Lucas, the elder

An image of Print

The Embrace

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Master M. Z.

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