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monotype

Also known as: monotype; traced monotype; monoprint
Scope note: This term is a type of drawing in which printing ink is transferred to the paper from another surface. This can be done drectly, by offsetting a composition from a glass or metal plate, or indirectly by tracing through from one sheet to another via a sheet of carbon paper or similar. Monotypes are classified as prints rather than drawings.
Broader terms: x12291; printed

428 related objects

artist book; print; drawing

Title: Birds die in Galilee |
Museum number: 2006,0203,0.1 |
Producer name: BIOG159535 Made by:Abdallah Benanteur |
Production date: 2001

drawing

Museum number: 2012,7034.7 |
Producer name: BIOG16917 Drawn by:Jankel Adler |
Production date: 1944-1948

drawing

Museum number: 2012,7034.4 |
Producer name: BIOG16917 Drawn by:Jankel Adler |
Production date: 1944-1948

drawing; print

Museum number: 1999,1127.14 |
Producer name: BIOG26450 Drawn by:Yizhak Elyashiv |
Production date: 1995

drawing; print

Museum number: 1999,1127.13 |
Producer name: BIOG26450 Drawn by:Yizhak Elyashiv |
Production date: 1995

drawing

Museum number: 2012,7034.5 |
Producer name: BIOG16917 Drawn by:Jankel Adler |
Production date: 1944-1948

drawing; print

Museum number: 2008,7081.9 |
Producer name: BIOG71562 Drawn by:Barbara Hepworth |
Production date: 1950

drawing; print

Museum number: 2008,7081.8 |
Producer name: BIOG71562 Drawn by:Barbara Hepworth |
Production date: 1950

drawing; print

Title: something more violent than recognition |
Museum number: 2020,7027.1 |
Producer name: AUTH233593 Drawn by:Sin Wai Kin |
Production date: 19 April 2017 |
Production place: Made in:London (England)

drawing; print

Title: what you have gained along the way |
Museum number: 2020,7027.2 |
Producer name: AUTH233593 Drawn by:Sin Wai Kin |
Production date: 8 July 2017 |
Production place: Made in:London (England)

drawing; print

Museum number: 1999,1127.16 |
Producer name: BIOG26450 Drawn by:Yizhak Elyashiv |
Production date: 1995

drawing

Museum number: 2006,0930.2 |
Producer name: BIOG16917 Drawn by:Jankel Adler |
Production date: 1940-1949

drawing; print

Museum number: 1985,1005.45 |
Producer name: BIOG51788 Drawn by:Bryan Wynter |
Production date: 1953

drawing; print

Museum number: 1999,1127.15 |
Producer name: BIOG26450 Drawn by:Yizhak Elyashiv |
Production date: 1995

print

Title: Untitled |
Museum number: 2020,7009.8 |
Producer name: BIOG37064 Print made by:Lino Mannocci |
Production date: 2009

print

Title: Untitled |
Museum number: 2020,7009.14 |
Producer name: BIOG37064 Print made by:Lino Mannocci |
Production date: 2015

print

Title: Conducting |
Museum number: 2020,7009.20 |
Producer name: BIOG37064 Print made by:Lino Mannocci |
Production date: 1994

print

Title: Queen Nazli |
Museum number: 1995,0411,0.3 |
Producer name: BIOG8860 Made by:Chant Avedissian |
Production date: 1990s |
Production place: Made in:Cairo

print

Title: Um Kulthum |
Museum number: 1995,0411,0.2 |
Producer name: BIOG8860 Made by:Chant Avedissian |
Production date: 1990s |
Production place: Made in:Cairo

print

Title: Le sommeil |
Museum number: 1949,0411.2425 |
Producer name: BIOG24831 Print made by:Edgar Degas |
Production date: 1883-1885

print

Museum number: 2002,0324.26 |
Producer name: BIOG50748 Print made by:John Wells |
Production date: 1958

print

Museum number: 1985,0608.25 |
Producer name: BIOG36354 Print made by:Caroline Lucas |
Production date: 1939

print

Museum number: 2007,7083.1 |
Producer name: BIOG170876 Print made by:Guy Warren |
Production date: 1959

print

Title: Vietnam Suite |
Museum number: 1997,0119.25 |
Producer name: BIOG22449 Print made by:David Chamberlain |
Production date: 1995

print

Title: II Figures III |
Museum number: 2010,7037.3 |
Producer name: BIOG32288 Print made by:Blair Hughes-Stanton |
Production date: 1953

print

Museum number: 1990,0623.9 |
Producer name: BIOG48985 Print made by:William Turnbull |
Production date: 1953

print

Title: Couple |
Museum number: 1986,0125.15 |
Producer name: BIOG23997 Print made by:Benjamin Creme |
Production date: 1949

print

Title: Man asleep on balcony |
Museum number: 1986,0510.17 |
Producer name: BIOG39867 Print made by:John Napper |
Production date: 1947

print

Museum number: 1949,0411.4583 |
Producer name: BIOG28222 Print made by:Demetrius Emmanuel Galanis |
Production date: 1900-1949

print

Title: Red bucket |
Museum number: 1993,0124.48 |
Producer name: BIOG48705 Print made by:Kjell Torriset |
Production date: 1985

print

Museum number: 1986,0125.17 |
Producer name: BIOG23997 Print made by:Benjamin Creme |
Production date: 1946

print

Museum number: 1941,0722.3 |
Producer name: BIOG22756 Print made by:George Chinnery |
Production date: 1789-1852

print

Museum number: 2005,0131.11 |
Producer name: BIOG149290 Print made by:Albert Tucker |
Production date: 1956

print

Title: "Whoever can evade the Self..." Conference of the Birds |
Museum number: 1995,1020,0.2 |
Producer name: BIOG144750 Print artist:Graham Day |
Production date: 1991

print

Title: Heads of a man and a woman |
Museum number: 1949,0411.2422 |
Producer name: BIOG24831 Print made by:Edgar Degas |
Production date: 1877-1880

print

Museum number: 1997,0928.7 |
Producer name: BIOG34424 Print made by:Roger de la Fresnaye |
Production date: 1911

print

Title: Head of a Traveller |
Museum number: 2004,0731.62 |
Producer name: BIOG51878 Print made by:Adja Yunkers |
Production date: 1951

print

Title: Woman in a Straw Hat |
Museum number: 2001,0520.84 |
Producer name: BIOG23371 Print made by:Robert Colquhoun |
Production date: 1962

print

Title: Untitled #236 |
Museum number: 2001,0520.2 |
Producer name: BIOG45850 Print made by:Charles Seliger |
Production date: 1993

print

Museum number: 1990,1006.31 |
Producer name: BIOG47667 Print made by:N H Stubbing |
Production date: 1964

print

Title: Der Vorschlag |
Museum number: 1990,0303.43 |
Producer name: BIOG28142 Print made by:Karl Otto Götz |
Production date: 1946

print

Title: 245 |
Museum number: 2003,1231.13 |
Producer name: BIOG141262 Print made by:Michael Hafftka |
Production date: 1992

print

Museum number: 2002,0127.14 |
Producer name: BIOG118807 Print made by:Ed Smith |
Production date: 2001

print

Title: Boats by the shore at sunset |
Museum number: 1995,0507.5.2 |
Producer name: BIOG44786 Print made by:Gyula Sajó |
Production date: 1989

print

Title: Waterfall |
Museum number: 2016,7011.7 |
Producer name: BIOG30439 Print made by:Maggi Hambling |
Production date: 2008

print

Title: Untitled |
Museum number: 2020,7038.4 |
Producer name: BIOG27939 Print made by:Klaus Friedeberger |
Production date: c.1954

print

Title: The Slip, St Ives |
Museum number: 1985,1005.32 |
Producer name: BIOG28025 Print made by:Terry Frost |
Production date: 1951

print

Title: Untitled |
Museum number: 2020,7038.2 |
Producer name: BIOG27939 Print made by:Klaus Friedeberger |
Production date: c.1959

print

Title: Designs for the unknown political prisoner monument |
Museum number: 1992,0516.92 |
Producer name: BIOG22952 Print made by:Geoffrey Clarke |
Production date: 1951-1952

print

Museum number: 2000,0521.27 |
Producer name: BIOG48403 Print made by:Estelle Thompson |
Production date: 1999

print

Title: Remainder IV |
Museum number: 2018,7011.3 |
Producer name: BIOG221007 Print made by:Freya Payne |
Production date: 2013

print

Title: Etude d'automne |
Museum number: 1926,0410.15 |
Producer name: BIOG34250 Print made by:Elizaveta Sergueievna Krouglikova |
Production date: 1920

print

Title: Saint B. Cross I |
Museum number: 2002,0728.47 |
Producer name: BIOG26450 Print made by:Yizhak Elyashiv |
Production date: 2001

print

Title: Head |
Museum number: 1993,0124.47 |
Producer name: BIOG48705 Print made by:Kjell Torriset |
Production date: 1976

print

Museum number: 1998,1004.33 |
Producer name: BIOG31849 Print made by:Harry Holland |
Production date: 1988

print

Museum number: 1990,0623.5 |
Producer name: BIOG48985 Print made by:William Turnbull |
Production date: 1953

print

Title: Self Portrait I |
Museum number: 2001,0520.85 |
Producer name: BIOG83150 Print made by:Peri Schwartz |
Production date: 1986

print

Title: Sculptural ideas |
Museum number: 1987,0620.13 |
Producer name: BIOG37930 Print made by:F E McWilliam |
Production date: 1938

print

Title: Underground |
Museum number: 2005,0331.6 |
Producer name: BIOG150853 Print made by:Liz Rideal |
Production date: 2004

print

Title: The world's birds in conference, Monoprint #1 The Conference of the Birds |
Museum number: 1995,1020,0.1 |
Producer name: BIOG144750 Printed by:Graham Day |
Production date: 1991

print

Title: Untitled (Brown and Pink) |
Museum number: 1987,1003.38 |
Producer name: BIOG45152 Print made by:Rolph Scarlett |
Production date: 1940

print

Museum number: 1983,0625.32 |
Producer name: BIOG23371 Print made by:Robert Colquhoun |
Production date: 1955

print

Museum number: 1985,1005.6 |
Producer name: BIOG140377 Print made by:W S Graham |
Production date: 1950-1985

print

Title: Designs for the unknown political prisoner monument |
Museum number: 1992,0516.86 |
Producer name: BIOG22952 Print made by:Geoffrey Clarke |
Production date: 1951-1952

print

Museum number: 1941,0722.2 |
Producer name: BIOG22756 Print made by:George Chinnery |
Production date: 1789-1852

print

Museum number: 1987,0725.23.1 |
Producer name: BIOG23192 Print made by:Peter Coker |
Production date: 1956-1957

print

Title: Carol singer |
Museum number: 1995,0618.26 |
Producer name: BIOG19351 Print made by:Sven Berlin |
Production date: 1948

print

Title: Baigneuse mettant ses bas |
Museum number: 1978,1007.27 |
Producer name: BIOG42131 Print made by:Camille Pissarro |
Production date: 1895

print

Title: Monotype |
Museum number: 1989,0930.254 |
Producer name: BIOG28579 Print made by:William Gear |
Production date: 1949

print

Title: Untitled |
Museum number: 2020,7016.59 |
Producer name: BIOG33760 Print made by:Ken Kiff |
Production date: 1996

print

Title: Landscape Zennor |
Museum number: 1994,0724.4 |
Producer name: BIOG50806 Print made by:Karl Weschke |
Production date: 1956

print

Museum number: 1985,0608.24 |
Producer name: BIOG36354 Print made by:Caroline Lucas |
Production date: 1939

print

Title: Water garden, 26 |
Museum number: 1997,0928.11 |
Producer name: BIOG33424 Print made by:Katherine Kadish |
Production date: 1997

print

Museum number: 2007,7009.4 |
Producer name: BIOG173658 Print made by:John Warren Davies |
Production date: 1959

print

Title: Mother and son |
Museum number: 1990,0303.30 |
Producer name: BIOG23371 Print made by:Robert Colquhoun |
Production date: 1948

print

Title: Autumn Dusk ‘Savernake Forest, Marlborough, Wiltshire’ |
Museum number: 2020,7012.7 |
Producer name: AUTH226936 Print made by:Edward Twohig |
Production date: 2019

print

Museum number: 1990,0623.8 |
Producer name: BIOG48985 Print made by:William Turnbull |
Production date: 1953

print

Title: Impression No.10 |
Museum number: 1990,0519.4 |
Producer name: BIOG20385 Print made by:Dorr Bothwell |
Production date: 1951

print

Museum number: 1988,0514.5 |
Producer name: BIOG37030 Print made by:Adrien Manglard |
Production date: 1715-1760

print

Title: Trawlers off the Dogger Bank |
Museum number: 1936,0116.5 |
Producer name: BIOG51315 Print made by:Stanley Reginald Wilson |
Production date: 1933

print

Museum number: 2009,7093.6 |
Producer name: BIOG85095 Print made by:Partou Zia |
Production date: 1996

print

Title: A head |
Museum number: 1985,1005.5 |
Producer name: BIOG140377 Print made by:W S Graham |
Production date: 1950-1985

print; drawing

Title: The insect woman I |
Museum number: 1989,1209.15 |
Producer name: BIOG33507 Print made by:John Kashdan |
Production date: 1954

print

Museum number: 1928,1016.25 |
Producer name: BIOG39894 Print made by:James Nasmyth |
Production date: 1876

print

Title: Portrait of an Anonymous Spirit |
Museum number: 1989,0930.253 |
Producer name: Print made by:Alan DaviePublished by:Paragon |
Production date: 1948

print

Museum number: 1972,0408.11 |
Producer name: BIOG23089 Print made by:Prunella Clough |
Production date: 1962

print; drawing

Museum number: 2005,0131.12 |
Producer name: BIOG149290 Print made by:Albert Tucker |
Production date: 1958

print

Museum number: 1990,0623.36 |
Producer name: BIOG30439 Print made by:Maggi Hambling |
Production date: 1988

print

Museum number: 1972,0408.10 |
Producer name: BIOG23089 Print made by:Prunella Clough |
Production date: 1962

print

Title: Still Life III |
Museum number: 2014,7077.1 |
Producer name: BIOG36461 Print made by:Markus Lüpertz |
Production date: 2000

print

Museum number: 1958,0712.2963 |
Producer name: BIOG131597 After:Lance Calkin |
Production date: 1900

print

Title: Spike, plant drawing |
Museum number: 2018,7082.7 |
Producer name: BIOG54967 Print made by:Sidney Nolan |
Production date: 1948

print

Title: Horse and factory |
Museum number: 2001,0128.3 |
Producer name: BIOG44296 Print made by:Michael Rothenstein |
Production date: 1956

print

Title: Eye |
Museum number: 2020,7023.1 |
Producer name: BIOG32199 Print made by:John Hoyland |
Production date: 1983

print

Museum number: 1960,0620.1 |
Producer name: BIOG39894 Print made by:James Nasmyth |
Production date: 1876-1877

print

Museum number: 1990,0623.37 |
Producer name: BIOG30439 Print made by:Maggi Hambling |
Production date: 1988

print

Title: Designs for the unknown political prisoner monument |
Museum number: 1992,0516.97 |
Producer name: BIOG22952 Print made by:Geoffrey Clarke |
Production date: 1951-1952

print

Title: Lebhafte Unterhaltung |
Museum number: 1990,0303.44 |
Producer name: BIOG28142 Print made by:Karl Otto Götz |
Production date: 1946

print

Title: A lake in the Pyrenees |
Museum number: 1949,0411.2426 |
Producer name: BIOG24831 Print made by:Edgar Degas |
Production date: 1890-1893

print

Title: Woman with cat |
Museum number: 1992,0620.28 |
Producer name: BIOG23371 Print made by:Robert Colquhoun |
Production date: 1954