page_title: Stipple engraving
hierarchical_section_title: Stipple engraving
caption_attribution_description: Giulio campagnola, l'astrologo
context_page_description: Stipple engraving is a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. The pattern is created on the printing plate either in engraving by gouging out the dots with a burin, or through an etching process. Stippling was used as an adjunct to conventional line engraving and etching for over two centuries, before being developed as a distinct technique in the mid-18th century.
  The technique allows for subtle tonal variations and is especially suitable for reproducing chalk drawings.
context_section_description: Stipple engraving is a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. The pattern is created on the printing plate either in engraving by gouging out the dots with a burin, or through an etching process. Stippling was used as an adjunct to conventional line engraving and etching for over two centuries, before being developed as a distinct technique in the mid-18th century.
  The technique allows for subtle tonal variations and is especially suitable for reproducing chalk drawings.
caption: Giulio Campagnola, The Astrologer, c. 1509, with areas such as the dark foreground, the man's bald head, and the tree trunks created by a burin stippling technique.
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