a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.
a metal plate so engraved.
a print or picture made from it.
the art or process of hand-engraving in intaglio and copper plate
a plate so engraved
a print taken from such a plate
First recorded in 1800–10
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He gave it last week to Thomas W. Nason of Reading, Mass. for a finicky line engraving of two hayricks, a barn, a dying oak tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is like the picture, but it has also the individuality of the draughtsman, as in line engraving.
From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Blackburn, Henry
I shall not, however, give any elaborate illustrations of them here, because I could not do them justice on the scale of the page of this volume, or by means of line engraving.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John
All methods of relief plate photo-engraving come under two general heads: "Half-tone" and "line engraving," the latter being very generally known as "zinc etching."
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.
The 18 woodcut tradition mimicked line engraving and was confined chiefly to tiny blocks wrought with the utmost delicacy.
From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob
With forty-six plates in line-engraving, mezzotint, photogravure, hyalography, and wood engraving London Macmillan and Co . . .
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
Engraving, known variously under the name of copper-plate printing, engraving in taille-douce, and line-engraving, produces the finest stamps figuring in our collections.
From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Johnson, Stanley Currie
To my eye it explains Mr. Lincoln far more than the most elaborate line-engraving which has been produced.
From McClure's Magazine December, 1895 by Tarbell, Ida M.
As a work of art, we repeat, this is beyond question the finest instance of line-engraving yet executed on this continent.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
The formal style of art, the essence of line-engraving, reached its zenith in Albrecht Dürer.
From Rembrandt, With a Complete List of His Etchings by Hind, Arthur Mayger
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