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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 Engravings from wikipedia
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images are also
called "
engravings".
Engraving is one of the
oldest and most
important techniques in printmaking. Wood
engraving is a form of
relief printing...
- less used.
Copperplate engraving is
another somewhat outdated term for
engravings. With
photography long established,
engravings made
today are nearly...
- areas. As a result, the
blocks for wood
engravings deteriorate less
quickly than the
copper plates of
engravings, and have a
distinctive white-on-black...
- 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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largely been
phased out and
replaced with
laser engraving. For more
precise and
visually decorative engravings, a
laser table (also
known as an "X–Y" or "XY"...
- was
posted online in
November 2013.
Engravings received strong critical reviews on release.
Mixmag named Engravings their album of the
month for August...
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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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material at a time. An
engraving burin is used
predominantly by
intaglio engravers, but also by
relief printmakers in
making wood
engravings.
Usually an engraver...
- The
Cowdray engravings comprise five 18th-century
engravings of 16th-century wall-paintings,
originally commissioned by Sir
Anthony Browne. The original...
- Pictures,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1
January 1971, p. 589 NGA
Washington Media related to
Stipple engravings at
Wikimedia Commons...
