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 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

I could not succeed in expressing the variation and chequering of color in marble, by real tints in the print; and have been content, therefore, to give them in line engraving.

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

So much for the strength of the blast; its delicacy is illustrated by this beautiful example of line engraving, etched on glass by means of the Blast.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

Absolutely, an immense disadvantage,—a woodcut never can be so beautiful or good a thing as a painting, or line engraving.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John