line engraving

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A mariner's card, set into the opening with a metal vernier scale, is in the usual form of the mariner's compass card of the 18th century; it is executed as a line engraving.

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Rembrandt was more directly associated with etching than with line engraving, but his influence was far from exclusive.

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His inclinations in early life turned to the stage; but his true path was line engraving.

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Dry-point, a method of engraving generally regarded as part of etching, but more closely allied to line engraving.

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But while some of them have been excellent of their kind, the process is of limited resource, and the best works in this manner do not compare with the masterpieces of line engraving.

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