Etching Prints (337)
Etching technique in Japanese printmaking, where designs are incised into a metal plate using acid. Artists like Tanaka Ryohei adopted this Western technique to create atmospheric landscapes with fine linear detail and tonal subtlety distinct from woodblock printing.
Artists Known for Etching
Dialogue
Etching
Espoir I
Etching
Paleur lunaire
Etching
Sentier de Printemps
Etching
Green Flora III
Aquatint etching
Green Flora II
Aquatint etching
Hyacinth I
Aquatint etching
Rose Blue I
Aquatint etching
Gleam 5
Color etching and aquatint
Latitude of Time II
Mixed media print (etching, woodblock, collagraph, metallic leaf)
Butterfly
Etching
Hayama
Etching with chine colle
A Phantasmagorica
Etching with chine colle
Feel the Wind Autumn
Etching with chine colle
Intervals between Rain
Etching with chine colle
Temptation of the Forest '97-1
Etching with chine colle
A Sweet Smell Faintly Drifted
Etching with chine colle
Magnolia
Etching with chine colle
The Touch of the Water 2002-1
Etching with chine colle
Peonies
Etching with chine colle
Waterview 2008-1
Etching with chine colle
Secret Garden I
Etching with chine colle
Barge Pool (Hashike damari)
Woodblock print
Farm House No. 2
Woodblock print
Ginkakuji (Silver Pavilion)
Woodblock print
Cinq heures moins le quart
Woodblock print
The Black Swan
Woodblock print
Bell tower
Woodblock print
White Wall A, B (Shiro no kabe A, B)
1991
Photoetching and color woodblock print
Stakes, Inokashira (Hashira-Inokashira)
1983
Photoetching and color woodblock print
1989 Airport
Etching and sugar aquatint with lead leaf and solder
Memory-96-VI (Shinjuku Subcenter) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Etching, aquatint, and collagraph
The Distant View of the Shinjuku-city
Etching, aquatint, and photoetching
40 N. Latitude III, Summer
Drypoint etching
Shade of a Tree
Drypoint etching
Women with Green Hair
1967
Etching on paper
Melody of Paradise B (Rakuen no shirabe B)
1979
Etching
The Red Umbrella
1918
Color etching on paper
Hide and Seek
1897
Color etching on paper
Her Bit
1918
Color etching on paper
Fireflies
1906
Etching and aquatint on paper
The Joggling Board
1918
Drypoint and etching on paper
One More Scene - Storehouses, Tomo
1988
Photoetching and color woodblock print
Landscape
1970
Photoetching and color woodblock print
One More Scene From My Town - Fire Hydrant
1983
Photoetching and color woodblock print
Metropolitan Government
Mezzotint, aquatint, sugar aquatint, and etching
Quiet Moment, in Winter
Drypoint etching
Shadows, in Summer II
Drypoint etching
A Forest, Light and Shade IV
Drypoint etching
beating of copper - 185
2025
Drypoint
Permeation 2
2022
Drypoint
Strawberry Fields Forever - 49 - B
2025
Woodblock
Ice grain in the Ice Cave Svalbard
2018
Etching, aquatint
Form 77 Ice Coffin Svalbard
2022
Etching, aquatint
Supernova
2025
Etching, aquatint
beating of copper - 079
2019
Drypoint
beating of copper - 184
2025
Drypoint
Traveling the Life in myself 1
2023
Drypoint
Water vein
2025
Drypoint
Magical Mystery Tour - 5
2023
Woodblock
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Etching technique in Japanese printmaking, where designs are incised into a metal plate using acid. Artists like Tanaka Ryohei adopted this Western technique to create atmospheric landscapes with fine linear detail and tonal subtlety distinct from woodblock printing.
Tanaka Ryohei, Keiko Minami, and Shinichi Nakazawa are among the artists most associated with etching in our collection. Browse the full list of artists who explored this subject above.
Hanga currently catalogues 337 prints tagged with etching, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.