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Steel engraving

Scope note

Printmaking process of engraving using plates of steel or steel-faced copper; replaced the use of less durable copper plates in the early 19th century. For the engraving of steel plates for the production of documents such as banknotes, use "siderography."

This term has 283 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

3000190536

Broader Terms used

<engraving (printmaking process)>
<etching (printmaking process)>

Term used for

engraving, steel
steel-engraving

Equivalent Terms used

steel-engraved

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Print

Landscape with, in the foreground, a ruin with a tower and a small church to the left, three figures to the right, one kneeling, in the distance a mountain with a town at its foot.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

An image of Print

View of a country road passing through a village, rural houses right and left with villagers sitting on the roadside, mountains beyond

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Unknown (After)

Vesuvius in eruption

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jeavons, Thomas
Painter: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (After)
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co

An image of Trade card

Trade card for Henry Banwell's Summer Hill School for young gentlemen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Price, John

St. John's College - New Bridge &c

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Day & Son

The Gate of Honor, Caius College, The Senate House, and the New University Library

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Day & Son

Clare College

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Day & Son

Trinity College Library & St. John's College, New Buildings

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Radclyffe, William
Rudge, Bradford, (of Bedford) (After)

The Senate House and Great St. Mary's Church

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Challis, Ebenezer
Rudge, Bradford, (of Bedford) (After)

The King's Court Trinity College

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

A View of Cambridge, from the Castle Hill

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Bird's Eye View of the University and Town of Cambridge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watkins, W.
Publisher: Ackermann & Co.
Whittock, Nathaniel (After)

The Palace of the Luxembourg, Paris

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Landscape with cow herd

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Rustic Amusement

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Lanscape with Windmill

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

December: Coleshill House, Berkshire, Lord Radnor

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

A Mountain Village

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Keswick Lake, Cumberland

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

June: Llangollen, North Wales

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Untitled: Oriental Scene with a Sultana Entertained by a Musician

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dyer, Richard H.

Kings Weston, the Seat of Edward Southwell Clifford, Lord de Clifford

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Storer, Henry Sargent

View of Harrow School

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rawle, Samuel

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