line engraving

Line-engraving is now practically obsolete, while etching and mezzotint have recently come more and more to the front.

As a work of art, we repeat, this is beyond question the finest instance of line-engraving yet executed on this continent.

The label is a fine piece of line engraving, but we have been unable to ascertain the size of the sheets in which it was printed.

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

In line etching, as in line engraving, the great masters purposely exhibit the line and do not hide it under too much shading.