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Etching

This term has 21,716 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

13yrs ago

Connected records

The Encampment of the English forces near Portsmouth, together with a view of the English and French fleets at the commencement of the action between them on the XIX of July MDXLV

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Basire, James I
Painter: Unknown (After)

The Death of General Wolfe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Woollett, William
Publisher: Boydell, John
Painter: West, Benjamin (After)

Roman Edifices in Ruins, the Allegorical Evening of the Empire

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Woollett, William
Publisher: Boydell, John
Painter: Claude Lorrain (After)

The classroom

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de

Tobias and the Angel

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Woollett, William
Printmaker: Emes, John
Painter: Lairesse, Gerard de (After)
Painter: Glauber, Jan (After)

Ornamental design with a man holding a net with a hook, having caught a larg fish

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Avril, Jean-Jacques I
Publisher: Basan, Pierre François
Draughtsman: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste (After)

A village fete

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de

A seated man holding sheets of music

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Leviez, Charles
Draughtsman: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste (After)

Rue d'un camp

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe
Painter: Chantereau, Jérôme François (After)
Publisher: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe

Two boys with sheep and a man playing a pipe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de

Ticket for the Benefit of Madam Banti

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Draughtsman: Burney, Edward Francis (After)

Première Vue D'Yrlande

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Leviez, Charles
Draughtsman: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste (After)

The Sepulchre of Cecilia Metella Crassi, upon the Appian Way

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivarès, François
Draughtsman: Busiri, Giovanni Battista (After)
Painter: Smith, Thomas of Derby (After)

Macbeth / From an Original Picture, in the Collection of Will,, Lock Esqr.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Woollett, William
Publisher: Woollett, William
Painter: Zuccarelli, Francesco (After)

Two boys blowing bubbles

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de

March (A male figure holding a mask and pointing)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Canot, Pierre Charles
Publisher: Leviez, Charles
Draughtsman: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste (After)

A View of the Amphitheatre, at Rome, as it now appears

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivarès, François
Draughtsman: Busiri, Giovanni Battista (After)
Painter: Smith, Thomas of Derby (After)
Publisher: Boydell, John
Publisher: Parker, Henry
Publisher: Bowles, John

Ornamenal design of Persian flowers

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: Leviez, Charles

A View of the Radcliffe Library - Brazen Nose College, the West Front of All Souls College, part of the Schools, a distant View of the Tower of Wadham College, etc.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Woollett, William
Publisher: Tinney, John
Draughtsman: Donowell, John (After)

The Rural Italian's Wedding

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Vivarès, François
Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Painter: Zuccarelli, Francesco (After)

Portrait of Jean Jacques Dortous de Mairan

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ficquet, Etienne
Painter: Tocqué, Louis (After)

The memorable engagement of Capt.n Pearson of the Serapis with Paul Jones of the Bon Homme Richard & his squadron, Sep. 23 1779

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lerpinière, Daniel
Printmaker: Fittler, James
Publisher: Boydell, John
Painter: Paton, Richard (After)

Landscape with a meandering river (‘Vue champêtre prise à Ambronay (Ain)’)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de

Jeu de Boule, ou VIe Vuë de Flandre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe
Painter: Teniers, David II (After)
Publisher: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe

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