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Etching

This term has 21,764 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Broader Terms used

<etching (printmaking process)>

Narrower Terms used

white-ground etching

Equivalent Terms used

hard-ground etching

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Three flautists

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Vecellio, Tiziano (Possibly after)

Landscape with a horseman and his groom

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Franco, Battista (Attributed)
Draughtsman: Vecellio, Tiziano (After)

Terra - La Terre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dupuis, Charles
Publisher: Chéreau, la Veuve
Draughtsman: Boullogne, Louis de (After)

The three Jews cast into the furnace

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sadeler, Jan I (Attributed)
Draughtsman: Vos, Maarten de (After)

Adam and Eve in paradise

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sadeler, Jan I
Draughtsman: Vos, Maarten de (After)

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