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

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

From Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes by Kirkbride, Joseph

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

This was not the only time Jackson translated a line engraving and added chiaroscuro modeling of his own.

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

It is like the picture, but it has also the individuality of the draughtsman, as in line engraving.

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