line engraving

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He gave it last week to Thomas W. Nason of Reading, Mass. for a finicky line engraving of two hayricks, a barn, a dying oak tree.

From Time Magazine Archive

All methods of relief plate photo-engraving come under two general heads: "Half-tone" and "line engraving," the latter being very generally known as "zinc etching."

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.

If the intention is to see what effect may be obtained with comparatively few lines deliberately drawn, we may refer to the woodcuts after Albert D�rer and Holbein, and the line engraving of Marc Antonio.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Blackburn, Henry

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.

From Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Bedini, Silvio A.

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

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various