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

The Rev: Samuel Parr, L.L.D.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Picart, Charles
Publisher: Cadell & Davies
Draughtsman: Evans, William (After)
Painter: Opie, John (After)

Wm Jones W.M.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Alexander, William

The Countess of Blessington

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Thomson, James (C18th)
Painter: Parris, Edmund Thomas (After)

An image of Print

J M W Turner

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Holl, William II
Painter: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (After)

The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Scriven, Edward
Publisher: Cadell & Davies
Draughtsman: Wright, John (After)
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Portrait of Dr Edward Jenner, 1749-1823

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mote, William Henry
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co
Painter: Lawrence, Thomas (After)

Sir William Jackson Hooker, L.L.D. F.R.A. & L.S.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cook, Henry Richard
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co.
Painter: Phillips, Thomas (After)

Sir Isaac Newton

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Scriven, Edward
Painter: Banck, Jan van der (After)

Sir Edward Coke

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Thomson, James (C18th)
Painter: Payne, John (After)

Sir Frederick Pollock, MP

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Robinson, John Henry
Publisher: Virtue
Painter: Phillips, Thomas (After)

Wentworth Earl of Strafford

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Freeman, Samuel
Publisher: Longman & Co.

The Rt Honble Charles Viscount Canterbury G.C.B. &c&c&cEarl de Grey, &c &c &c

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hall, Henry Bryan
Publisher: Virtue
Painter: Chalon, Alfred Edward (After)

Sir Thomas More

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Freeman, Samuel
Publisher: Longman & Co.

The Right Honble Earl de Grey, &c &c &c

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Brown, Joseph
Painter: Wood, John I (After)

An image of Print

Ann Holme Aet Suae 77

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Draughtsman: McMorland, Patrick John (After)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Phillips, Richard
Painter: Kneller, Godfrey, baronet (After)

An image of Print

The Rev.d Dr John Hough

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Longman & Co.
Painter: Kneller, Godfrey, baronet (After)

An image of Print

Plate 2nd

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Rothstein, J.
Draughtsman: Catel, Franz Ludwig (After)

Alexander Pope

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Phillips, Richard

Mr Pratt

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Phillips, Richard
Painter: Lawrence, Thomas (After)

Sensibility

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Payne, Thomas

Portrait of Thomas Moore

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Fry, William Thomas
Painter: Shee, Martin Archer (After)

The Invention of the Stocking Loom

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Holl, Francis
Draughtsman: Elmore, Alfred (After)

Portrait of William Sterndale Bennett

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Barlow, Thomas Oldham
Painter: Millais, John Everett (After)
Publisher: Palmer, Edward S.

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