Eagle 1981
Tate
© Georg Baselitz
A print is an impression made by any method involving transfer from one surface to another
Eagle 1981
Tate
© Georg Baselitz
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 … -
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 … -
Etching
Etching is a printmaking technique that uses chemical action to produce incised lines in a metal printing plate which then … -
Intaglio
Intaglio describes any printmaking technique in which the image is produced by incising into the printing plate – the incised … -
Lithography
Lithography is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked … -
Monoprint
The monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows … -
Offset lithography
Offset lithography is a variation of the printing technique lithography -
Screenprint
A variety of stencil printing, using a screen made from fabric (silk or synthetic) stretched tightly over a frame -
Proof
Proof is a printing term applied to all individual impressions made before work on a printing plate or block is … -
Woodcut
A method of relief printing from a block of wood cut along the grain -
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
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Interview
Anthony Burrill: To the Letter
Graphic artist, print-maker and designer Anthony Burrill speaks to us about his creative career, fascination with fonts and wondering around … -
Colour and Line, room guide, Turner and printmaking: Room 1
Room 1: Turner and Printmaking Colour and Line exhibition room guiide -
Tate Etc
The grandfather of satire: William Hogarth
William Hogarth was one of the founders of a satire that led all the way to the modern comic book …
Selected artworks in the collection
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Jenny Holzer [no title]
1979–82 -
Lucian Freud Girl with a Fig Leaf
1947 -
Guerrilla Girls Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?
1989 -
William Blake ‘Songs of Innocence’: Title-Page
1789, reprinted 1831 or later -
Prunella Clough Float
1950 -
William Hogarth, François Antoine Aveline Four Prints of an Election, plate 4: Chairing the Members
1758 -
Tracey Emin Sad Shower in New York
1995 -
Ian McKeever Print A - Version I
1997
Print at Tate
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Tate Liverpool
Exhibition
Joan Miró: Printmaker
18 Jun – 26 Aug 1996The prints in this exhibition were all made between 1933 and 1963 in Paris, Barcelona and Mallorca, where Miró lived …