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...
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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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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-...
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The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Intaglio (printmaking) (redirect from Copperplate engraving)
used as a surface or matrix, and the incisions are created by etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint or mezzotint, often in combination. Collagraphs may...
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