Lucian Freud
Girl with a Fig Leaf (1947)
Tate
Intaglio
Intaglio describes any printmaking technique in which the image is produced by incising into the printing plate – the incised line or area holds the ink and creates the image
Intaglio methods
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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 … -
Drypoint
Drypoint is a printmaking process in which a design is drawn on a plate with a sharp, pointed needle-like instrument -
Engraving
Engraving is a printmaking technique that involves making incisions into a metal plate which retain the ink and form the … -
Wood engraving
A printmaking method distinct from woodcut in that the line is incised into the woodblock, rather than the background being …
Selected artworks in the collection
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Pablo Picasso Etching: 11, 28 February 1970 3, 16, 30 March 1970 (L.13)
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Giorgio Morandi Hilltop at Evening
1928 -
After Joseph Mallord William Turner Tornaro, engraved by R. Wallis
published 1834
