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

In short, the medium served the same purpose as copper plate line engraving, with the added virtue that it could be printed together with type in one impression.

From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Kainen, Jacob

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

Neither line engraving nor etching was suited to reproducing these spirited drawings, but the chiaroscuro woodcut could render their effects admirably.

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

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