Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in the arts and related occupations]
8. [people in the arts]
9. [people in the visual arts and related occupations]
10. [people in the visual arts]
11. artists (visual artists)
12. [artists by medium or work type]
13. printmakers

Narrower term/s

• aquatinters
• stone etchers
• reproductions etchers

Anotations

Scope note:

Artists who etch, by hand, metal plates to be used in creating etchings, which are prints made by an intaglio process in which the design is worked into an acid-resistant substance coating the metal printing plate, and the plate is then dipped in acid to form the design.