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Engraving
Engraving En*grav"ing, n.
1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or
raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like;
especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the
surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is
used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for
producing an original, from which a pattern or design may
be printed on paper.
2. That which is engraved; an engraved plate.
3. An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or
other material; a print.
Note: Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper,
chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or
prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood
cuts, those from stone, lithographs.
Meaning of Engraving from wikipedia
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Engraving is the
practice of
incising a
design on a hard,
usually flat
surface by
cutting grooves into it with a burin. The
result may be a decorated...
- Wood
engraving is a
printmaking technique, in
which an
artist works an
image into a
block of wood.
Functionally a
variety of woodcut, it uses
relief printing...
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burin (/ˈbjʊərɪn, ˈbɜːrɪn/ BUR(E)-in) is a
steel cutting tool used in
engraving, from the
French burin (cold chisel). Its
older English name and synonym...
- Line
engraving is a term for
engraved images printed on
paper to be used as
prints or illustrations. The term is
mainly used in
connection with 18th-...
- The
Flammarion engraving is a wood
engraving by an
unknown artist. Its
first do****ented
appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie po****ire...
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Music engraving is the art of
drawing music notation at high
quality for the
purpose of
mechanical reproduction. The term
music copying is
almost equivalent—though...
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Steel engraving is a
technique for
printing illustrations based on
steel instead of copper. It has been
rarely used in
artistic printmaking, although...
- The
Bureau of
Engraving and
Printing (BEP) is a
government agency within the
United States Department of the
Treasury that
designs and
produces a variety...
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Laser engraving is the
practice of
using lasers to
engrave an object. The
engraving process renders a
design by
physically cutting into the
object to...
- used as a
surface or matrix, and the
incisions are
created by etching,
engraving, drypoint,
aquatint or mezzotint,
often in combination.
Collagraphs may...
