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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

An image of Print

Barbarities in the West Indias

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

An image of Print

Nicolas Tindal

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Picart, Bernard
Painter: Knapton, George (After)

Bust of a man, in profile to the left, wearing a crown and a long cap, with an emblem of a catherine-wheel. Motto of the Earls of Orford below: Fari quae sentiat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

The Theatrical War

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Fores, Samuel William

Nicolas de Catinat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vermeulen, Cornelis
Painter: Vivien, Joseph (After)

Jan Evertsen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blooteling, Abraham
Painter: Berckman, Hendrick (After)

An image of Print

Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis
Draughtsman: Goltzius, Hendrik (After)

Flannel-armour; -female-patriotism, -or- modern heroes accoutred for the wars

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

An image of Print

Thomas Forrest

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sharp, William
Draughtsman: Sherwin, John Keyse (After)

An image of Print

Blood on Thunder fording the Red Sea

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Fores, Samuel William

Volkert Schram

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Veenhuysen, Jan

A Portrait

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

An image of Print

René Boudier

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Thomassin, Simon
Draughtsman: Thomassin, Simon (After)

An image of Print

Patience on a Monument

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

We explain de Rights of Man to de Noblesse -scene. The House of Lords

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Draughtsman: Dalrymple, Sir John (After)
Publisher: Gillray, James

The Republican-Hercules defending his Country

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

An image of Print

Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Orange

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Tanjé, Pieter
Painter: Miereveld, Michiel Jansz. van (After)

An image of Print

Laurent Spinacuta and two dancing monkeys

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Poisson, Michel

Pig's Meat; -or, The Swine floggd out of the Farmyard

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

Coventry Cross

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

William II, Prince of Orange

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Tanjé, Pieter
Painter: Honthorst, Gerrit van (After)

An image of Print

Dirk Smits

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Tanjé, Pieter
Painter: Nijmegen, Dionys van (After)

Military Eloquence

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Draughtsman: Monogrammist A. S. (After)
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

French Habits, No. 2. Les Membres du Conseil des Anciens

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillray, James
Publisher: Humphrey, Hannah

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