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Stipple

Scope note

Printmaking process that achieves tonal areas by making short flicks or dots in an etching gorund, sometimes in combination with etched lines. For 15th-century process of making relief-printed engravings with stippled areas, use "dotted manner."

This term has 982 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053239

Broader Terms used

<etching (printmaking process)>

Term used for

engraving, stipple (printmaking process)
stipple-engraved
stipple-engraving
stipple (printmaking process)
stipple engraving

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Print

Jane Louisa Jebb

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cooper, Robert
Painter: Comerford, John (After)

An image of Print

The Martyrdom of St Peter

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Fry, William Thomas
Publisher: Jones & Co.
Painter: Bernardino da Asola (After)

An image of Print

An old bearded man seated holding a staff, a female figure leans over, with on ehand holding the man's and the other covering her eyes. (Job and a daughter?)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Stodart, George J.

An image of Print

Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Miller, William
Publisher: Anderson, John
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

An image of Print

Portrait of a poet (Allan Ramsay?)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jeens, Charles Henry

An image of Trade card

Trade card for Puttick & Simpson, Literary, Musical & Fine Art, Auctioneers

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Trade card

Trade card for M. Buller, Sole Proprietor of the Ninon de l'Enclos

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Marguerite de Valois

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hopwood, James II

Portrait of Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Draughtsman: Isabey, Jean Baptiste (After)

Empress Marie-Louise

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Isabey, Jean Baptiste (After)

Portrait of Richard Pulteney

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Roberts, Piercy
Painter: Beach, Thomas (After)

Portrait of William Withering

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bond, William
Breda, Carl Fredrik van (After)

Portrait of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Birrell, Andrew
Draughtsman: Harding, Sylvester (After)

De zamenspraak / La conversation

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Portman, Ludwig
Publisher: Maaskamp, Evert
Draughtsman: Overman, Cornelis (After)

Portrait of Madame de Staël

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Thomson, James (C18th) (Attributed)
Publisher: Asperne, James

John Disney, D.D.F.S.A. of the Hyde

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Picart, Charles
Painter: Head, Guy (After)

Eugène Beauharnais, Prince d'Eichstädt, Duc de Leuchtenberg

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Painter: Stieler, Joseph Karl (After)

Portrait of Erasmus Darwin

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hopwood, James I
Painter: Wright, John (c. 1745-1820) (After)

Portrait of John Pinkerton

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hopwood, James I
Publisher: Symonds, Henry Delahoy

Portrait of Mary (née Kirke), Lady Vernon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Bell, John (publisher)
Painter: Lely, Peter (After)

Portrait of Spencer Perceval

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Sherwood, Neely & Jones

Portrait of Samuel Rogers

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Miss Foote

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Professor John Playfair

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Thomson, James (C18th)
Publisher: Colburn, Henry

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