Print

A print is an impression made by any method involving transfer from one surface to another

Georg Baselitz
Eagle (1981)
Tate

© Georg Baselitz

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Print techniques

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Aquatint

Aquatint is a printmaking technique that produces tonal effects by using acid to eat into the printing plate creating sunken …
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Drypoint

Drypoint is a printmaking process in which a design is drawn on a plate with a sharp, pointed needle-like instrument
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Engraving

Engraving is a printmaking technique that involves making incisions into a metal plate which retain the ink and form the …
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Etching

Etching is a printmaking technique that uses chemical action to produce incised lines in a metal printing plate which then …
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Intaglio

Intaglio describes any printmaking technique in which the image is produced by incising into the printing plate – the incised …
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Lithography

Lithography is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked …
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Monoprint

The monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows …
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Offset lithography

Offset lithography is a variation of the printing technique lithography
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Screenprint

A variety of stencil printing, using a screen made from fabric (silk or synthetic) stretched tightly over a frame
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Proof

Proof is a printing term applied to all individual impressions made before work on a printing plate or block is …
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Woodcut

A method of relief printing from a block of wood cut along the grain
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Wood engraving

A printmaking method distinct from woodcut in that the line is incised into the woodblock, rather than the background being …

Artists who print

Selected artworks in the collection

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Jenny Holzer
1979–82
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Girl with a Fig Leaf

Lucian Freud
1947

Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?

Guerrilla Girls
1989

‘Songs of Innocence’: Title-Page

William Blake
1789, reprinted 1831 or later
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Float

Prunella Clough
1950
On display at Tate Britain Part of Modern and Contemporary British Art

Four Prints of an Election, plate 4: Chairing the Members

William Hogarth, François Antoine Aveline
1758
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Sad Shower in New York

Tracey Emin
1995
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Print A - Version I

Ian McKeever
1997
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Print at Tate