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▪ I. stipple, n.|ˈstɪp(ə)l|
[In sense 1 prob. a. Du. stippel, dim. of stip point; in sense 2 f. stipple v.]
†1. pl. Dots or small spots used in shading a painting, engraving, or other design. Obs.
1669A. Browne Ars Pict. 96 How to draw with Indian Ink... Dash on your shadows very faintly, and deepen it by degrees,..then finish it with stipples.
2. a. The method of painting, engraving, etc. by means of dots or small spots, so as to produce gradations of tone; the effect so produced; dotted work done with the point of a brush, a pencil, or a graver. Also transf. applied to natural appearances resembling this.
1837Penny Cycl. IX. 422/1 Engraving in stipple, as practised by Bartolozzi, Ryland, and others, in imitation of chalk drawings. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. ii. v. §16. 198 The stipple of the miniature painter would be offensive on features of the life size. 1912Daily News 17 Apr. 4 A hedge sprinkled with many kinds of green stipple.
b. An engraving produced by this method.
1864Burton Scot Abr. II. 248 Like the other engravings..a meagre stipple. 1907Tregaskis' Catal. 29 July 47 The extra illustrations comprise..a series of 100 stipples, printed in brown.
3. attrib. and Comb., as stipple artist, stipple engraver, stipple engraving, stipple plate, stipple print, stipple shading; stipple-engraved adj.; stipple graver, an engraving tool for stippling, having the point bent downwards; stipple-paper, drawing-paper with an embossed surface which can be scraped off so as to intensify the high lights of a picture.
1841T. H. Fielding Art Engraving 63 The process of stipple engraving is very simple. Ibid. 64 The lighter parts are laid in with the dry-point or stipple graver. 1880Printing Times 15 May 96/1 Wanted, a young chromolitho stipple artist. 1886W. Walker in R. A. M. Stevenson's Delaborde's Engrav. 320 The stipple engraver William Walker. 1896H. Holiday Stained Glass i. 23 Stipple-shading..is in common use. 1908A. M. Hind Engraving & Etching 299 The lighter kind of crayon and stipple prints. Ibid., One of the pure stipple plates. 1936[see line-engraved s.v. line n.2 32]. 1961E. M. Elville Collector's Dict. Glass 77/1 A stipple engraved wineglass with the standing figure of a small boy with a bird on his wrist. 1973Country Life 6 Dec. 1931 (Advt.), Stipple engraved goblet..circa 1785.
▪ II. stipple, v.|ˈstɪp(ə)l|
Also 9 stippule.
[a. Du. stippelen, freq. of stippen to prick, speckle, f. stip, a point.]
1. trans. To paint, engrave, or otherwise design in dots; to produce gradations of shade or colour in a design by means of dots or small spots.
a. with the design, or object represented, as obj. Also with up.
1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. xlviii, Don't you think..that eye⁓brow stippled very prettily? 1807J. Landseer Lect. Engraving 125 Perceiving that it was peculiarly expressive of softness, Agostino Veneziano, and Boulanger sometimes stippled their flesh, and Julio Campagnola his back-grounds also. 1862Athenæum 30 Aug. 281 To grind at the mechanical practice of statue-copying alone, until he gets the bone-polishing power of stippling up antique forms with chalk to the regulation pitch.
fig.1879A. Edwardes Vivian xii. 208 [In amateur theatricals] Every point..ought to be laboured at, stippled up like a miniature. 1892Baring-Gould Trag. Caesars I. 232 The characteristics of the man..sketched by Tacitus and stippled by Suetonius.
b. with the pigment as obj. Also with in.
1840Thackeray Pict. Rhapsody Wks. 1900 XIII. 331 The painter has been touching up the figures..with..orange-colour; and you may see how this is stippled in upon the faces and hands. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. Pref. p. vi, The master hand is still recognized, trembling with age and stippling in the color with slow and painful touches. 1902E. R. Suffling Glass Painting vi. 104 A thin mat of colour should be either badgered over the whole surface, or else finely stippled with a French stippler.
c. with the surface or substratum as obj.
1765T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sciences II. s.v. Miniature, The whole appears as if strippled [sic] or wrought with points. 1852Beck's Florist 265 In one of the large stoves formerly used as an Orchid-house,..the panes have..been..re-glazed, and painted on the outside, ‘stippuled’, to prevent the rays of the sun from injuring the leaves. 1882Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip Jan. 2/2 A portion of the field should be disclosed to be carefully stippled up to an even tone. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry xi. 215 A transparent plate is hatched or stippled in parallel lines.
d. intr. or absol.
1868W. Sutherland Pract. Guide Ho. Decoration 20 [House painting.] It is best to use the large round stippling brushes to stipple with.
2. transf. in reference to natural processes or effects resembling this kind of painting or engraving.
a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) II. 316 That each ray be diffused upon the cornea, and from thence be converged into a point, which will help to stipple or point out the image..upon the back of the eye. 1839–52Bailey Festus 532 Like silver raindrops stippled in the ground. 1867–77G. F. Chambers Astron. i. i. 17 Minute pores or dots which stipple the Sun's surface. 1894Forum (N.Y.) Oct. 211 The Virginia-creeper stipples the church walls with green in summer and..scarlet in winter. |