Lithography

Scope note

Planographic printing process in which a design is deposited on the stone or plate with a greasy substance and the surface is chemically treated to accept ink only in the greasy areas.

This term has 4,456 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053271

Broader Terms used

<planographic printmaking processes>

Narrower Terms used

chromolithography
color lithography
lithotint
offset lithography
pen lithography
transfer lithography
zincography

Term used for

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Tireurs de la compagnie infernale.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Printer: Gihaut, Jean François

Rentrée des barques de pêcheurs

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mesdag, Hendrik Willem
Printer: Lemercier & Cie

Oh les gueux!

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Printer: Villain, Jean-François
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François

An image of Print

Soutiens-moi, Chatillon..., je m'evanouis!...

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Publisher: Gihaut, Jean François (Assumed)

Illustration to Schumanns " Nuit de Printemps"

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Fantin-Latour, Henri
Designer: Fantin-Latour, Henri
Printer: Lemercier & Cie

View of a canal (Amsterdam?)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Storm van 'S Gravesande, Carel Nicolaas (Attributed)

Ma chère, je l'aime!

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gavarni, Paul
Printer: Aubert

Je ne conçoit pas comment tu as pu t'amouracher d'une pareille araignée...

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Damourette, Abel
Printmaker: Meilhac, Henri (Talin)
Printer: Lemercier & Cie

Ecoute donc mon petit lapin ? (Une racoleuse)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Grandville, J. J.
Printer: Langlumé
Publisher: Bulla

Allons, Bonne Chance.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vernet, Horace
Printer: Delpech, François Séraphin

An image of Print

Two soldiers sitting on a stone bench outside a building.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Printer: Lasteyrie du Saillant, Charles Philibert, Comte de

La Charite

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Fry, Roger Eliot

Laissez venir à moi les petits enfants

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Daumier, Honoré Victorin
Printmaker: Philipon, Charles (With)
Printer: Aubert

Une conquète

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gavarni, Paul
Printer: Aubert

An image of Print

À J. Brahms

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Fantin-Latour, Henri

A young woman sitting in an armchair, looking at a portrait miniature of her lover

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

C'est gentil, mais!... pourquoi est-ce que ton feuillage est toujours fait avec des mêmes 3?

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gavarni, Paul
Printer: Lemercier & Cie

Une erreur excusable

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Daumier, Honoré Victorin
Publisher: Martinet (publisher)
Printer: Destouches

The breakwater

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Shannon, Charles Haslewood

A collection of Prints after the Sketches and Drawings of. G. B. Cipriani

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Earlom, Richard
Draughtsman: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (After)
Publisher: Boydell, John
Publisher: Boydell, Josiah

Poster for the Production of "The Dynasts" at the Kingsway Theatre, 1914.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ricketts, Charles de Sousy

View of a city with a Carriage in the foreground

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Cheltenham from Southam

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dinsdale, George
Printer: Hullmandel, Charles Joseph

A Manor House

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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