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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

The Great Day of His Wrath

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mottram, Charles
Painter: Martin, John (After)

George Washington

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Heath, James
Publisher: Heath, James
Painter: Stuart, Gilbert (After)

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Trade card for Thomas Younghusband at Gerard's Hall Hotel, London

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Eastman & Yeo

Edinburgh from Arthur’s Seat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Miller, William
Painter: Williams, Hugh William (Grecian Williams) (After)

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Trade card for William Hill, Coach Builder & Harness Maker, Bristol

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Price, John

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Trade card of George F. Cruchley, Mapseller and Publisher, London

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Savigny

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de

Landscape with a water-mill and a goatherd playing a pipe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de
Painter: Claude Lorrain (After)

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Trade card for Thomas Cummins, Carver & Gilder, Bristol

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Price, John

View of Sainte-Colombe castle at Sainte-Colombe-lès-Vienne

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de

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Trade card for Robert Tripp & Co., Woollen Drapers, Bristol

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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Trade card of Charles Frost, Engraver & Copper Plate Printer, Bristol

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Admission ticket for the New Theatre Royal, Bath (Dress Circle)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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Trade card for Robert Jonathan Hulbert, Wine & Spirit Merchant, Bath

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollway, Joseph

Edinburgh from Arthur’s Seat

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Miller, William
Publisher: Arch, John
Painter: Williams, Hugh William (Grecian Williams) (After)

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Trade card for Reeve's Family Hotel, Weston-super-Mare

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Johnson, George

A group of peasants resting beneath a tree, in a landscape ('Le Repos des Travailleurs. Paysans du Charollais’)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de

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Trade card for Nelson & Herring, Chemists, Bath

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Trade card

Trade card for George Warne at Gloucester House & Steam Packet Hotel, Clifton Hotwells

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Price, John

Trade card of Calkin & Budd, Booksellers, London

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Silvester, Richard William

An image of Trade card

Trade card for Benjamin Edgington, Marquee, Tent and Rick Cloth maker, London

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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Trade card for L. Hynes & Co., Wire Workers, Birmingham

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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Trade card of Jacob Abraham, Optician, Bath

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Marsh, C.

Trade card of Isaac Webb Moore, Furnishing Ironmonger, London

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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