API Toolkit and Guide

LESSONS

1

Museum Data

2

APIs

3

Examples

4

Getting Started

5

Interpretting Data

6

Manipulating Data

REFERENCES

Resource Guide

Resource Labels

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LABELS

Techniques

The Technique label records the processes by which an artwork was created. Technique labels are created and assigned by Harvard Art Museums curators.

Name ID Object Count
20 x 24 Polaroid print 2647 123
3.5 x 4.5 Polaroid print 5739 3
8 x 10 Polaroid print 4851 2
Albumen silver print 110 3132
Ambrotype 3025 23
Appliqué 4101 2
Aquatint 783 417
Aquatint and drypoint 2644 8
Aquatint and lithograph 5244 8
Aquatint and mezzotint 4303 3
Aquatint and roulette 3577 7
Aquatint and softground etching 1794 4
Aquatint and stipple engraving 6459 2
Aquatone 7220 1
Assemblage 2809 8
Autochrome 3631 13
Barbotine 5990 2
Basaltes ware 1217 34
Baxter process 1940 185
Bizen 4693 2
Black glaze 1493 29
Black-brown glaze 2441 12
Black-figure 7318 137
Blue-and-white ware 211 77
Blueprint 3820 482
Brocade 738 78
Bromoil print 3234 3
Brushwork 3885 3
Burnished 5809 3
Carbon print 996 10
Carborundum print 5155 2
Carved 639 739
Cast 233 1573
Cast and hammered 7430 126
Cast, lost-wax process 1311 967
Cast, sand 5637 45
Celadon 328 454
Cerograph 3589 1
Champlevé 2980 3
Chased 2230 5
Chiaroscuro woodcut 848 297
Chromogenic print 834 842
Chromolithograph 122 145
Cibachrome (TM) 367 109
Cliché-verre 1758 66
Cloisonné 554 4
Collage 430 227
Collagraph 3431 16
Collodion process 724 250
Collotype 370 226
Collotype and stencil 1772 57
Collotype, stencil and cutout 3651 13
Compound weave 1046 36
Core-formed glass 7332 17
Counterproof 2141 36
Crayon manner print 1105 24
Cuerda seca 6467 4
Cut 4788 5
Cutout 5974 21
Cyanotype 1022 50
Daguerreotype 1430 95
Diazotype 182 57
Die cut 5589 1
Digital image 4370 12
Drypoint 479 606
Drypoint and aquatint 2415 15
Drypoint, softground etching and aquatint 4124 9
Duogravure 5498 1
Duotone offset photolithograph 299 32
Dye destruction print 1077 2
Dye diffusion transfer print 944 44
Dye transfer print 1615 61
Electrophotograph 6095 1
Electroplated 227 68
Electrotype 7032 188
Embossed 860 8
Embroidery 771 126
Enamelled 329 10
Engraved 720 24
Engraving 98 14100
Engraving and aquatint 2294 16
Engraving and drypoint 1143 7
Engraving and etching 7477 118
Engraving and letterpress 4013 19
Engraving and softground etching 2297 11
Engraving and stipple engraving 617 23
Etching 116 16079
Etching and aquatint 278 1199
Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut 7478 26
Etching and drypoint 1205 369
Etching and engraving 767 942
Etching and lithograph 4921 7
Etching and mezzotint 312 577
Etching and photoetching 4393 6
Etching and roulette 2940 27
Etching and softground etching 4322 4
Etching and stipple 1621 8
Etching and stipple engraving 4198 16
Etching and woodcut 2527 13
Etching, aquatint and lithograph 6236 3
Etching, aquatint and photoetching 2367 10
Etching, aquatint and roulette 2308 32
Etching, drypoint and aquatint 1393 60
Etching, engraving and drypoint 3763 28
Etching, softground etching and aquatint 2955 12
Etching, softground etching and drypoint 4769 16
Etching, stipple engraving and roulette 2272 30
Felt 3087 4
Filigree 5093 2
Flocking 6574 1
Free-blown glass 7334 177
Fresco painting 1456 112
Fresson print 2318 8
Gel-lithograph 6866 1
Gelatin dry plate (glass) 7011 106
Gelatin silver print 123 25657
Gilding 1328 13
Gillotage 4301 1
Glazed 749 37
Glazed-monochrome 1645 15
Glypotograph 6092 2
Grisaille 3946 8
Gum bichromate print 2637 11
Gum dichromate print 3534 2
Gypsograph 4096 5
Halftone print 6233 186
Hammered 2519 158
Handmade 1187 74
Hectograph 4484 20
Heliogravure 2521 12
Heliotype 3150 46
Holograph 6096 1
Ikat 3465 3
Ilfachrome 2769 4
Illuminated 5435 1
Impressed 3138 25
Incised 439 41
Ink jet digital print 97 142
Inkless engraving 3521 1
Inlaid 2302 58
Intaglio 871 285
Intaglio print 1233 151
Intaglio print and planographic 5423 1
Intaglio print and screen print 5459 1
Iris digital print 2452 40
Jasperware 847 90
Jun 342 100
Knotted 1578 7
Kuftgari 2192 10
Lace 4295 5
Lacquered 4433 6
Lampas 2265 24
Laqabi 5313 1
Laser print 582 4
Lead glaze 2520 47
Letterpress 2824 111
Letterpress and relief halftone 2619 5
LightJet (TM) 6952 4
Line block 4197 10
Linocut 424 346
Linocut and screen print 5719 1
Lithograph 136 11688
Lithograph and screen print 2685 33
Lost-wax process 1504 19
Lusterware 2341 59
Maiolica 1903 4
Majolica (industrial) 4075 8
Marbled 2764 4
Marquetry 5031 5
Matte collodion print 3918 13
Metal cut 2348 4
Mezzotint 260 672
Mimeograph 6638 2
Mina’i 3437 2
Mixed technique 358 212
Mold-blown glass 3640 16
Mold-made 1033 302
Molded 325 126
Monoprint 5024 14
Monotype 881 117
Mosaic glass 7331 1
Nature print 7508 2
Needlepoint 938 2
Negative photostat print 1322 88
Negative print 1755 2
Negative Vandyke print 2719 7
Negative, color 2414 71
Negative, gelatin dry plate (glass) 170 2131
Negative, gelatin silver (35mm film) 777 15651
Negative, gelatin silver (film) 107 17735
Negative, gelatin silver (paper) 4834 2
Negative, glass plate 682 1531
Negative, mixed technique 1796 2
Niello 3054 1
Offset print 6961 910
Oil gilding 7554 1
Ormolu 3574 4
Overglaze enamel 2596 8
Overglazed 3776 6
Painted 2125 239
Palladium print 2780 13
Pastel manner 7474 2
Photo offset lithograph 7186 35
Photocopy 290 755
Photoengraving 2211 8
Photoetching 2180 63
Photoetching, aquatint and embossing 1478 10
Photogram 4445 54
Photograph 2789 8
Photographic reproduction 1474 13
Photogravure 538 885
Photogravure and drypoint 4822 5
Photogravure and etching 5789 4
Photolithograph 466 1253
Photolithograph and screen print 3363 9
Photolithograph, collagraph, and chine collée 5132 2
Photomechanical print 269 3251
Photorelief 7577 6
Photoscreenprint 1931 43
Physionotrace 7499 2
Pierced 4395 5
Pigment print 4806 524
Pile weave 2731 2
Platinum print 313 468
Pochoir 626 56
Polacolor ER 6164 1
Polaroid transfer print 3943 3
Polychromed 2746 7
Positive 4 x 5 transparency 4185 90
Positive photostat print 666 256
Positive Vandyke print 4060 3
Pressed 5917 2
Punch'ong 491 34
Pâte sur pâte 2954 7
Qingbai 1254 38
Red-figure 7317 227
Redware 2704 23
Relief 157 454
Relief cut 1481 23
Relief etching 2005 22
Relief halftone 3402 23
Relief metal cut 1878 12
Relief print 703 300
Repoussé 740 48
Resist dyed 4741 3
Reverse painting on glass 3849 2
Roulette 4545 3
Rubber stamp 1495 15
Rubbing 1637 57
Salt glaze 3703 3
Salted paper print 647 336
Satin 5018 1
Scratchwork 6355 1
Screen print 306 1543
Screen print and collage 4471 23
Screen print and photograph 3495 5
Seto 5682 1
Sgraffito 6392 3
Shino 5328 2
Silver-dye bleach print 2326 4
Slide, 35 mm, black and white 220 3394
Slide, 35 mm, color 127 3387
Softground etching 585 175
Softground etching and aquatint 718 78
Softground etching and aquatint and etching 5372 1
Softground etching and mezzotint 1301 24
Softground etching, aquatint and woodcut 6584 1
Softground etching, mezzotint, and aquatint 3874 6
Spitbite etching 5691 2
Spongotype 6278 1
Stamped 1484 127
Stencil print 4517 2
Stipple 3451 2
Stipple engraving 1244 191
Stipple engraving and etching 3180 7
Stipple engraving and roulette 2083 8
Struck 7320 23067
Stucco 2522 28
SX-70 Polaroid print 2909 18
Tabby (textile) 6175 2
Tapestry 739 27
Tin glaze 2615 18
Tintype 226 141
Transfer drawing 5451 2
Transparency 1303 24
Typewriting 1035 538
Typewriting and rubber stamp 3531 1
Underglazed 1201 73
Underglazed, painted 803 64
Underglazed, sgraffito 3601 3
Unglazed 4008 22
Velvet 1685 20
Verifax matrix print 3241 7
Verre églomisé 7576 2
Wash manner 7367 6
Water gilding 7555 1
Wax resist 2491 8
Wheel-made 635 483
White ground 7319 11
White ware 1082 30
White-ground 2982 9
Wood engraving 525 1344
Wood engraving and letterpress 4932 16
Wood engraving and screen print 4835 3
Woodblock print 7476 279
Woodburytype 259 309
Woodcut 194 6982
Woodcut and letterpress 2597 21
Woodcut and lithography 1982 3
Woodcut and screen print 1206 1
Woven 1016 1129
Woven with pile 1482 42
Woven, mixed technique 2863 38
Woven, soumak 3996 1
Woven, tapestry weave 1536 61
Woven, twill 2568 6
Woven, weft-faced plain weave 3777 7
Xerograph 1989 16
Ziatype 4313 3
Zincograph 4263 7