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.
AAT
Technique
300053239
engraving, stipple (printmaking process)
stipple-engraved
stipple-engraving
stipple (printmaking process)
stipple engraving
14yrs ago
Printmaker:
Quinton, George
Publisher:
Boydell, John
Painter:
Plas, Pieter van der
(After)
Printmaker:
Ogborne, John I
Painter:
Romney, George
(After)
Printmaker:
Pariset, D. P.
Draughtsman:
Falconet, Pierre
(After)
Printmaker:
Meadows, Robert Mitchell
(Attributed)
Painter:
Rubens, Peter Paul
(After)
Printmaker:
Wilkin, Charles
Painter:
Hoppner, John
(After)
Printmaker:
Wilkin, Charles
Painter:
Hoppner, John
(After)
Printmaker:
Wilkin, Charles
Painter:
Hoppner, John
(After)
Printmaker:
Cardon, Anthony
Painter:
Wheatley, Francis
(After)
Publisher:
Colnaghi
Printmaker:
Unknown
Draughtsman:
Fores, Samuel William
(After)
Painter:
Gear, Joseph C.
(After)
Printmaker:
Schiavonetti, Luigi
Painter:
Wheatley, Francis
(After)
Publisher:
Colnaghi
Printmaker:
Wilkin, Charles
Painter:
Hoppner, John
(After)
Printmaker:
Wilkin, Charles
Painter:
Hoppner, John
(After)
Printmaker:
Bond, William
Painter:
Lawrence, Thomas
(After)
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