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.
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line-engraving
line-engravingnounthe art or process of hand-engraving in intaglio and copper plate
line engraving
Americannoun
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a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.
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a metal plate so engraved.
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a print or picture made from it.
line-engraving
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the art or process of hand-engraving in intaglio and copper plate
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a plate so engraved
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a print taken from such a plate
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Etymology
Origin of line engraving
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 appeared as though line engraving could not keep pace with the ever-growing demand for pictures, and was therefore combined with stipple to facilitate production.
From Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes by Joseph Kirkbride
The decided influence of line engraving was probably the result of his association in 1731 with G. A. Faldoni in Venice.
From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen
As there is line engraving, so there is line etching; but as the etching-needle is a freer instrument than the burin, the line has qualities which differ widely from those of the burin line.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Yet these volumes are enough to show what lovely service line engraving might be put upon, if the general taste were advanced enough to desire it.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
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 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
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
Technically one of these arts, that of line-engraving on copper, sprang from the craft of the goldsmith and metal-chaser; while that of wood-engraving sprang from the craft of the printers of pattern-blocks and playing cards.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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