stipple engraving

He worked in etching, line and stipple engraving, as well as aquatint.

During the late eighteenth century, some printmakers, including Francesco Bartolozzi, began to use colour in stipple engraving.

Redouté claimed to have invented a method of color printing called stipple engraving, which used etched dots rather than lines on the plates.

His flower plates used several techniques - mezzotint, aquatint and stipple engraving - and were often finished in watercolor by hand.

Caroline Elizabeth Vivian (née Cholmeley), stipple engraving, (before 1853).

More than 45 of his watercolors on parchment and vellum as well as examples of his stipple engravings are displayed.

The National Portrait Gallery has two of his stipple engraving, and a lithograph (printed by Nosworthy & Wells).

Bartolozzi was famous for his stipple engravings and developed his technique to imitate the subtleties of Renaissance and baroque chalk drawings.

Another piece that is not on display is a stipple engraving of Jane Elizabeth, Countess of Ellenborough, published in 1829.

(The library has two watercolors, together with the uncolored proof-plate and the color-printed stipple engraving of one, which allow the viewer to study the artistic process.)

Most of Burke's mezzotints were engraved after Angelica Kauffmann for William Wynne Ryland, who taught him the stipple engraving technique.

Sir Joshua Reynolds allowed Collyer to reproduce two of his paintings, "Venus" and "Una", as chalk engravings (a type of stipple engraving).

Duterrau was apprenticed to an engraver and in 1790 did two coloured stipple engravings after Morland, The Farmer's Door and The Squire's Door.

Among the leading artists was Etienne Delaune, another goldsmith, whose smooth, fastidiously stippled engravings titled "Labors of the Months" moved beyond courtly subjects to depict the life of farmers in rural France.

Working with the leading horticulturists of his day, under French royal patronage (including Empress Josephine, a 15-year benefactor) Redouté mastered the unusual technique of stipple engraving, which with one plate rendered subtle color variations and luminosity.

He sat for two portraits that are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery: one by Pompeo Batoni and one by Draughtsman and engraver artist William Evans (after Edward Scott's stipple engraving).

William Wynne Ryland, who had worked with him, took the crayon manner to Britain, using it in his contributions to Charles Roger's publication A Collection of Prints in imitation of Drawings, and developing it further under the name of "stipple engraving".

If you spend your late spring and summer days cosseting a garden full of roses, then you will probably be drawn to the incomparable stipple engravings of French artist Pierre-Joseph Redoute, the painter commissioned by the Empress Josephine to immortalize specimens in her garden.