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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

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Lucian Freud
Girl with a Fig Leaf (1947)
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© The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images 2022

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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
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  • After Joseph Mallord William Turner Tornaro, engraved by R. Wallis

    published 1834
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