silver point
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Then they will inspect Leonardo’s tools — red chalk, ink and silver point — and use their own versions to create imaginative art.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2014
The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music —passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is more suited to drawings where extreme delicacy of form is desired, and is usually used in silver point work, a medium capable of the utmost refinement.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold
She watched Venus shrink from a silver pool to a silver point.
From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith
A more ancient method, it consists in drawing with a silver point on paper the surface of which has been treated with a faint wash of Chinese white.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold
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