Girl with a Fig Leaf 1947
Tate
© The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images
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
Girl with a Fig Leaf 1947
Tate
© The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images
Intaglio methods
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
Pablo Picasso Etching: 11, 28 February 1970 3, 16, 30 March 1970 (L.13)
1970
Giorgio Morandi Hilltop at Evening
1928
After Joseph Mallord William Turner Tornaro, engraved by R. Wallis
published 1834