Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [image-making processes and techniques]
6. [printing and printing processes and techniques]
7. printing processes
8. intaglio printing processes
9. etching (printing process)
10. aquatint (printing process)

Narrower term/s

• sugar-lift
• salt-lift

Anotations

Scope note:

Aquatint process in which the image is drawn on the plate with a water-soluble solution; the plate is covered with a ground and submerged in water which dissolves the solution, lifts the ground, and exposes the image areas so the plate can be etched.