Embossed

An embossed surface is a raised or depressed surface created during printmaking processes

Robert Adams, ‘Whiteprint’ 1971 — Robert Adams
*Whiteprint* 1971
Tate
© The estate of Robert Adams

In printmaking any process used to create a raised or depressed surface is referred to as embossing. This is sometimes used to create false plate-marks in lithographs or screenprints.

Selected artworks in the collection

Ivor Abrahams Oxford Gardens VIII

1977

View by appointment P11164

Langlands & Bell (Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell) Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq

1996

P78030

Gordon House Embossed Quartered Arc

1970

View by appointment P01176

Blinky Palermo (Peter Heisterkamp) Fünf Miniaturen

1972

P80244