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• 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.

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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

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Other Word Forms

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  noun
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  noun

Etymology

Origin of line engraving

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

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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

Delicate art of design, or of selected truth, can only be presented to the general public by true line engraving.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin

The whole work should be taken up again, and done by line engraving, perfectly; and wholly from Pre-Raphaelite designs, with which no other modern work can bear the least comparison.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin

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

Although, however, I do not now press further my cavils at the triumph of modern line engraving, I must assign to you, in few words, the reason of its recent decline.

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

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

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

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

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

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