Jump To:

• line engraving
  line engraving

  noun

  a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.
• line-engraving
  line-engraving

  noun

  the art or process of hand-engraving in intaglio and copper plate

line engraving

American  

noun

1. a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.

2. a metal plate so engraved.

3. a print or picture made from it.

---

line-engraving British  

noun

1. the art or process of hand-engraving in intaglio and copper plate

2. a plate so engraved

3. a print taken from such a plate

---

Other Word Forms

• line engraver
  noun
• line-engraver
  noun

---

Etymology

Origin of line engraving

First recorded in 1800–10

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

line engraving line-engraving

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

This was not simply an ordinary line engraving printed in relief rather than in the usual way; the management of the lights shows that it was planned as a white-line engraving.

From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Jacob Kainen

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 Henry Blackburn

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 Jacob Kainen

Absolutely, an immense disadvantage,—a woodcut never can be so beautiful or good a thing as a painting, or line engraving.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

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

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 Ida M. Tarbell

Dry-point, though generally regarded as a branch of etching, as it is so constantly used on the same plate as bitten work, is in reality more akin to line-engraving.

From Rembrandt, With a Complete List of His Etchings by Arthur Mayger Hind

In the one case the composer desired to have a beautiful weaving of the parts—clear as the lines in a line-engraving.

From Music Talks with Children by Thomas Tapper

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

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---