Definition of Engravings. Meaning of Engravings. Synonyms of Engravings

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Definition of Engravings

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

- images are also called "engravings". Engraving is one of the oldest and most important techniques in printmaking. Wood engravings, a form of relief printing...
- 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...
- less used. Copperplate engraving is another somewhat outdated term for engravings. With photography long established, engravings made today are nearly...
- The following is a very incomplete list of engravings by the German painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer. List of paintings by Albrecht Dürer List of woodcuts...
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- the paper prior to printing is unnecessary. In this process, fine-line engravings are transferred to steel plates from which an impression is made on sheets...
- 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...
- famous erotic book of the Italian Renaissance that had engravings of ****ual scenes. The engravings were created in a collaboration between Giulio Romano...
- outside the village, with mysterious engravings on the laterite shelf. The layer of mud covering up the engravings had been washed away by monsoon floods...
- 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...