steel engraving

American  

noun

Printing.

1. a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.

2. the imprint, as on paper, from a plate of engraved steel.

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steel engraving British  

noun

1. 1. a method or art of engraving (letters, etc) on a steel plate

   2. a print made from such a plate

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Etymology

Origin of steel engraving

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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steel engraving

Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against a parlor wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beautiful detailed observation and the total effect of a steel engraving with no col or at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a steel engraving of an oval building with rectangular windows, and a small tower in front.

From "1984" by George Orwell

This print was copied on a smaller scale in a steel engraving by J. B. Swaine, published by J. B. Nichols & Son in 1843, but it was hardly an improvement.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob

There is to be a steel engraving of Brother Rogers, and a wood cut of Christian College.

From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)