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

S. A. J. la Grande Duchesse Alexandrine

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. M. l'Imperatrice Elisabeth

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

Portrait of Doctor William Cullen, 1710–1790

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kay, John

An image of Print

Le Tzar Teodor III Alexiewitch

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Johannot, Alfred
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

Le Tzar Michail Feodorowitch Romanoff. (1613)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

Portrait of Doctor William Cullen, 1710–1790

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kay, John

Mrs Sheridan & Son

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Nugent, Thomas
Publisher: Nugent, Thomas
Painter: Hoppner, John (After)

An image of Print

S. M. l'Empereur Paul I

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. M. l'Empereur Alexandre I

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Printer: Chardon, F.
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

S. A. J. la Grande Duchesse Anne Feodorowna

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

Buffon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hart, Robert
Publisher: Mackenzie, William
Painter: Drouais, François Hubert (After)

Matthew Maty M.D.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ridley, William
Publisher: Sewell, John

An image of Print

La Tzarewna Sophie Alexiewna

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Johannot, Alfred
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

An image of Print

Le Tzar Iwan Alexiewitch

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mécou, André Joseph
Painter: Benner, Henri (After)

Earl of Sandwich

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gardiner, William Nelson
Painter: Lely, Peter (After)

Marechal de Turenne

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ogborne, John
Draughtsman: Harding, Sylvester (After)

Marlborough

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Posselwhite, James
Publisher: Knight, Charles
Painter: Kneller, Godfrey, baronety (After)

An image of Print

[Contemplation] Portrait of Elizabeth Stanhope

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Boydell, John
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

An image of Print

Benjamin West Esq.r Historical Painter to His Majesty

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Boydell, John
Painter: Stuart, Gabriel (After)

An image of Print

Prince William Frederick

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

An image of Print

Robert Auriol, Earl of Kinnoull

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Painter: Shelley, Samuel (After)

An image of Print

Maternal Tuition

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Caroline
Publisher: Molteno, Anthony
Draughtsman: Fanshawe, Catherine Maria (After)

The family distress occasioned by the loss of a child

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Place, M.
Printmaker: Schiavonetti, Luigi
Painter: Cossé, Laurence J. (After)

Virgil reading his Aeneid

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Kauffmann, Angelica (After)

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