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
This was not simply an ordinary line engraving printed in relief rather than in the usual way; the management of the lights shows that it was planned as a white-line engraving.
From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Kainen, Jacob
If it failed artistically to measure up to line engraving or to plank woodcut, this was not the fault of the process but of the popular reproductive ends which it almost invariably served.
From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Kainen, Jacob
In 1761 he made a drawing of Salisbury Cathedral for Edward Eaton, “bookseller at Sarum,” for a line engraving dedicated by Eaton to the Lord Bishop of Winchester.
From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob
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
