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:
Strutt, Joseph
Publisher:
Thane, John
Painter:
Stothard, Thomas
(After)
Printmaker:
Strutt, Joseph
Publisher:
Thane, John
Painter:
Stothard, Thomas
(After)
Printmaker:
Schiavonetti, Niccolo
Publisher:
Colnaghi & Co.
Painter:
Wheatley, Francis
(After)
Printmaker:
Bartolozzi, Francesco
Draughtsman:
Downman, John
(After)
Printmaker:
Bartolozzi, Francesco
Draughtsman:
Leonardo da Vinci
(After)
Publisher:
Chamberlaine, John
Printmaker:
Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter:
Reynolds, Joshua
(After)
Printmaker:
Gillray, James
Painter:
Loutherbourg, Philip James de
(After)
Publisher:
Green, Valentine
Printmaker:
Earlom, Richard
Painter:
Reynolds, Joshua
(After)
Publisher:
Boydell, John
Publisher:
Boydell, Josiah
Printmaker:
Facius, Johann Gottlieb
Printmaker:
Facius, Georg Sigmund
Painter:
Reynolds, Joshua
(After)
Printmaker:
Fiessinger, Franz Gabriel
Painter:
Guerin, Jean Urbain
(After)
Printmaker:
Wedgwood, John Taylor
Printmaker:
Dunkarton, Robert
(After)
Painter:
Parsons, Francis
(After)
Printmaker:
Picot, Victor Marie
Painter:
Peters, Matthew William
(After)
Publisher:
Picot, Victor Marie
Printmaker:
Tomkins, Peltro William
Painter:
Palmer, William
(After)
Publisher:
Palmer, William
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