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
I could not succeed in expressing the variation and chequering of color in marble, by real tints in the print; and have been content, therefore, to give them in line engraving.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin
It could, in fact, have black lines so fine and so closely spaced as to take on the character of line engraving.
From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Jacob Kainen
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 Frederick H. Hitchcock
Delicate art of design, or of selected truth, can only be presented to the general public by true line engraving.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
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