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 shall not, however, give any elaborate illustrations of them here, because I could not do them justice on the scale of the page of this volume, or by means of line engraving.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

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.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

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

Jackson was interested in broad effects even when leaning heavily on the delicate linear conventions of line engraving.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob