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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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Etymology

Origin of line engraving

First recorded in 1800–10

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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

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

Artistic Qualities.—Although capable of most charming effects, the mezzotint process never became a really serious menace to line engraving, with its firm and expressive outlines and peculiarly lustrous textures.

From Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes by Joseph Kirkbride

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 Frederick H. Hitchcock

It could, in fact, have black lines so fine and so closely spaced as to take on the character of line engraving.

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

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

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

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

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

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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