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
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.
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
Dry-point, a method of engraving generally regarded as part of etching, but more closely allied to line engraving.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
If it failed artistically to measure up to line engraving or to plank woodcut, this was not the fault of the process but of the popular reproductive ends which it almost invariably served.
From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Kainen, Jacob
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
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 Tapper, Thomas
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
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 Hind, Arthur Mayger
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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