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

Jane Shore

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher: Harding, Edward

Le Baiser Envoyé

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Painter: Greuze, Jean Baptiste (After)

Industry

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Knight, Charles
Publisher: Diemar, Emanuel Mathias
Painter: Morland, George (After)

An image of Print

The Rt. Honble. Lady Elizabeth Lambart

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baldrey, John
Painter: Downman, John (After)
Publisher: Baldrey, John

Louisa Mildmay

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ward, William
Publisher: Prattent, Thomas

Finery

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gaugain, Thomas
Painter: Artaud, William (After)
Publisher: Gaugain, Thomas

The little gleaner

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Laurie & Whittle

A Swedish gentleman in the court dress

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ruotte, Louis Charles
Publisher: Cadell, T

Fidelia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Sayer, Robert

Vive la bagatelle

Maker(s)

Publisher: Ashton, Sarah
Printmaker: Unknown

A Swedish lady in the court dress

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ruotte, Louis Charles
Publisher: Cadell, T

Frederick William Hereditary Prince of Wurtemburg

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Tomkins, Peltro William
Painter: Schweppe, Johann Gottlieb
Publisher: Tomkins, Peltro William

Brisé fan

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

The Idle Laundress

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William
Painter: Morland, George (After)
Publisher: Macklin, H.

Folding fan

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Brisé fan

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Mrs Trimmer

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bond, William
Painter: Howard, Henry (After)

Robinetta

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jones, John
Publisher: Jones, John
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Edmund Burke, Esq

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hardy, James
Publisher: Molteno, Colnaghi & Co.
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Society in Solitude.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Smith, John Raphael
Publisher: Smith, John Raphael

Thoughts on Matrimony

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ward, William
Draughtsman: Smith, John Raphael (After)

Mrs. Siddons, in the character of the tragic muse

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Haward, Francis
Publisher: Haward, Francis
Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Dungannon

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Stubbs, George Townly
Publisher: Stubbs, George Townly
Publisher: Stubbs, George

Three shining ones appearing to Christian at the Cross

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Strutt, Joseph
Publisher: Thane, John
Painter: Stothard, Thomas (After)

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