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

Edward Matthew Ward

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Smyth, John Talfourd
Painter: Brigstocke, Thomas (After)

An image of Print

Henry Tresham

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cardon, Anthony
Publisher: Cadell & Davies
Draughtsman: Pope, Alexander (Poet) (After)

An image of Print

Harry Ashby

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Holl, William I
Publisher: Ashby, Robert
Painter: Borckhardt, Charles (After)

Mrs. Opie

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cooper, Richard II
Painter: Opie, John (After)

Lovers in a garden

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Two fashionable ladies in conversation

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

A courting couple

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Priscoti, F.

Neo-classical scene with a wealthy Queen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

The celebration of the victories of Wellington

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Lauriere, J.

Arco-Aguero proclamande La Constitution Espanola en La Plaza San Ferdinando Isla de Leon’

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Trade card of Mackie & Co., Nursey at Leamington called Ranelagh Gardens

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Miss Bowles

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cousins, Samuel
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Henry, Lord Brougham & Vaux.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Walker, William
Painter: Lawrence, Thomas (After)

William Beckford

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dean, Thomas Anthony
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

An image of Print

The Banishment of Cleombrotus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Garner, Thomas
Publisher: Jones & Co.
Painter: West, Benjamin (After)

Portrait of a young woman as Hebe, holding a dish in her left hand, her bust nude, resting her head on the eagle to the right and touching its beak with her right hand

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Light as Love!

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Knight, Charles

A woman in Italian dress

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lewis, Frederick Christian I (Attributed)
Printmaker: Lewis, John Frederick (Attributed)
Draughtsman: Lewis, John Frederick (After)

Half-length portrait of a woman in exotic costume

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lewis, John Frederick
Draughtsman: Lewis, John Frederick (After)

Winter

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Morton, Edward
Draughtsman: Stewart, James Struthers
Publisher: Hollyer, Samuel
Publisher: Ackermann & Co.

Catherine Maria Bury, Countess of Charleville

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Thomson, James (C18th)
Painter: Hamilton, Hugh Douglas (After)
Publisher: Bull, Edward

Lady Morgan

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cooper, Robert
Draughtsman: Lover, Samuel (After)

Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bocquet, E.
Painter: Lely, Peter (After)
Publisher: Scott, John

Portrait of Richard Pulteney

Maker(s)

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

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