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L’eau-forte est un procédé de gravure en taille douce indirecte sur métal à l’aide d’un mordant, l’acide nitrique (étendu d’eau : l’aqua-fortis). La plaque métallique (cuivre ou zinc) est préalablement recouverte par un vernis (vernis mous) qui protège le métal. Seules les zones où le vernis est retiré (tracé par un outil) seront mordues (gravées) dans le bain d'eau-forte. La matrice définitive est obtenue par la dilution du vernis résiduel protecteur. Le titrage de l'estampe est identique au procédé de la gravure en taille douce directe (burin et pointe sèche).

Etchings are made using an intaglio method of image making in which the image is incised into the surface of a metal plate using an acid. The acid eats the metal, leaving behind roughened areas, or if the surface exposed to the acid is very narrow, burning a line into the plate. The process is believed to have been invented by Daniel Hopfer (circa 1470-1536) of Augsburg, Germany.

This technique should not be confused with engraving.

See also: Famous prints, engravings and etchings.

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  Etching in metal. Not related to this topic.

Hirschvogel

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  Hirschvogel Burg 1546
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  Hirschvogel Self Portrait 2
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  Hirschvogel Bear Hunt
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  Hirschvogel Ewer
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  Hirschvogel Hunter
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  Hirschvogel Sandals
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  Hirschvogel Sigismund
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  Hirschvogel Lazarus 1545
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  Hirschvogel Temptation
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  Hirschvogel Self Portrait
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  Hirschvogel Cleopatra
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  Hirschvogel Geometry
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  Hirschvogel Satyr

Daniel Hopfer

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Goya

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Frans Balthazar Solvyns

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Piranesi

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George Cruikshank

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  Cruikshank - The Last Chance (Oliver Twist)
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  Cruikshank - Fagin in the condemned Cell (Oliver Twist)
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  Whitlock the second or another tarnish of British Valor, 29 September 1808
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  Grand Expedition or the Commanders in Chief Watching each others Motions!!, September 1809
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  King Richard burlesqued or King Jocys flight from the battle of Vittoria, 13 July 1813
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  Comparative Anatomy or Bone-ys new Conscripts filling up the Skeletons of the Old Regiments, November 1813
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  Delusion a New Farce, 8 December 1813
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  The Allied Bakers or, The Corsican Toad in the hole, 1 April 1814
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  The Corsican Shuttlecock or a pretty Play thing for e/y Allies, 10 April 1814
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  Snuffing out Boney!, 1 May 1814
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  Little Boney gone to Pot, 12 May 1814
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  Peace & Plenty or good News for John Bull!, 25 May 1814
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  A View of the Grand Triumphal Pillar, 1815
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  Royal Methodists in Kent & Sussex, or: The Dissenters too powerful for the Established Church!, 1816
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  Results of the Northern Excursion – or Strong Symtoms of the "Scotch Fiddle" –, 8 September 1822
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  Old Bumblehead the 18th trying on the Napoleon Boots – or, Preparing for the Spanish Campaign, 17 February 1823

Willem and Johannes Blaeu

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  Joan Blaeu-Norvegia Regnum ca. 1662
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  Joan Blaeu-Insula Qvæ Ioanne Mayen nomen sortita est

John Bull

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  John Bull offering Little Boney fair play
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  John Bull, baited by the dogs of excise

Halifax

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  Halifax Nova Scotia Government House
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  Halifax view from davis mill

Quelques eau-forte en couleur

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  Allan Osterlind Flamencotänzerin
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  Comedy of Society, by Jacques Villon, Honolulu Museum of Art
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  Jeune fille et enfant de Rosporden, Émile Dezaunay
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  Le Coup de Vent, eau-forte, en couleur, Malo-Renault

Miscellaneous etchings

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  Judge Thumb
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  Tom Paine's nightly pest
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  Minions of the moon
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  Torun oblezenie 1655, akwaforta, 1697
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  Nasrani menorah
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  Washington Gates Franklin Laurens Jones 1784
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  Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia
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  Friedrich Nietzsche drawn by Hans Olde
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  Very slippy-weather
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  Tiddy-Doll, the great French gingerbread-baker
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  Britania's assassination, or -- the republican amusement
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  Cincinnatus in retirement
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  Monstrous craws, at a new coalition feast
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  Franz Ferdinand
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  Smelling out a rat
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  Visiting the sick
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  The father of the gang turned Kings evidence
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  A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July
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  Charon's Boat
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  Jean François Millet, Les Glaneuses, post 1857