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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

"Philtra petit…", plate 121 from P. Ovidius Naso, De Metamorphosen (The Metamorphosis of Ovid)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Passe, Crispijn I de

Angel holding a column

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sadeler, Egidius II

"Arbiter en formae…", plate 101 from P. Ovidius Naso, De Metamorphosen (The Metamorphosis of Ovid)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Passe, Crispijn I de

"En manibus…", plate 99 from P. Ovidius Naso, De Metamorphosen (The Metamorphosis of Ovid)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Passe, Crispijn I de

"Audet Phebaes…", plate 18 from P. Ovidius Naso, De Metamorphosen (The Metamorphosis of Ovid)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Passe, Crispijn I de

An image of Print

Winter landscape with ice skaters and a smoking lime kiln

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Scheyndel, Gillis van

Taste A-la-Mode, 1745

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Patton, Francis
Draughtsman: Boitard, Louis-Philippe (After)

Patience in a punt

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Bunbury, Henry William (After)

Landscape with a single-arched bridge over a weir and a small pyramid monument; smoking volcano in the background

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

La Soubrette confidente

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vidal, Gérard
Draughtsman: Lavreince, Nicolas (After)

Three hunters on horseback drinking outide an inn; their dogs in the foreground and a castle in the distance to the right

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bargas, A. F.

Jason et Medée. Ballet tragique

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher: Boydell, John
Draughtsman: Dance-Holland, Nathaniel (After)

Landscape with a woman with a vase, seated on the ground next to a stone block

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Théodore
Painter: Millet, Francisque (After)

A View of the Rotunda House & Gardens at Ranelagh with an exack representation of the Jubilee Ball as it appeared May 24th 1751 being the birth day of his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Parr, Nathaniel
Publisher: Sayer, Robert
Publisher: Overton, Henry
Draughtsman: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (After)

Philip II, King of Spain, on horseback

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

La Poësie

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

St Cecilia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sharp, William
Publisher: Sharp, William
Painter: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrett (After)

Cabinet d'un Peintre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus

The Inside View of the Rotunda in Renelagh Gardens with the Company at Breakfast

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bowles, Thomas II
Publisher: Wilkinson, Robert
Publisher: Bowles & Carver

Pastoral landscape with a bag-pipe player standing on a stone block beside a ruined temple at left; couple dancing at right

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bargas, A. F.

Studies of two feet, one in outline

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

View through a rocky arch or bridge of a country road, with a coach driven by four horses; a figure at a kiosk on the far side

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

A View of the Orchestra, the Grand Walks &c in Marybone [sic] Gardens

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

The Review

Maker(s)

Printmaker: June, John

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