Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. prints (visual works)
8. [prints by process or technique]
9. [prints by process: transfer method]
10. intaglio prints

Narrower term/s

• copper engravings (visual works)
• drypoints (prints)
• line engravings (prints)
• mezzotints (prints)[+]
  • sand-grain mezzotints (prints)
  • carborundum mezzotints (prints)
• niello prints
• steel engravings (visual works)
• stipple engravings (prints)
• lithographic engravings (prints) [NP]
• siderographs (engravings)
• punched engravings

Anotations

Scope note:

Prints on paper incorporating impressions of a reverse design created on a printing plate, usually copper, into which the design has been incised (engraved) using burins or gravers. Historically, "engravings" has sometimes been incorrectly used to refer to all prints, regardless of the specific technique. For prints made from designs engraved on a flat wooden block, use "wood cuts"; for prints made from a plate that is etched rather than engraved, use "etchings."