A print is an impression made by any method involving transfer from one surface to another
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 areas which hold the ink
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Drypoint
Drypoint is a printmaking process in which a design is drawn on a plate with a sharp, pointed needle-like instrument
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Engraving
Engraving is a printmaking technique that involves making incisions into a metal plate which retain the ink and form the printed image
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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 hold the applied ink and form the image
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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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Lithography
Lithography is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked using a greasy substance so that the ink will adhere to them by, while the non-image areas are made ink-repellent
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Monoprint
The monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows for multiple originals
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Offset lithography
Offset lithography is a variation of the printing technique lithography
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Screenprint
A variety of stencil printing, using a screen made from fabric (silk or synthetic) stretched tightly over a frame
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Proof
Proof is a printing term applied to all individual impressions made before work on a printing plate or block is completed, in order to check progress of the image
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Woodcut
A method of relief printing from a block of wood cut along the grain
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Wood engraving
A printmaking method distinct from woodcut in that the line is incised into the woodblock, rather than the background being cut away to leave a line in relief
Artists who print
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The grandfather of satire
William Hogarth was one of the founders of a satire that led all the way to the modern comic book and was described as the grandfather of the political cartoon. Martin Rowson revisits Hogarth’s most political details such as Gin Lane.
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
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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 at various times.