engraving
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The auction house said in its promotional material that very little was known of the painting -- only that a peer of Rubens had made an engraving of it.
From Barron's
They settled in Philadelphia and, as a teenager, he learned engraving and earned a living incising designs for silverware firms—no doubt honing his talent for detail.
Dental-lab technicians shifted from manual molds to digital scanning and CAD/CAM; etchers and engravers moved from hand tools to digital engraving.
The engravings on it are difficult to discern.
From BBC
The room exploded when Mr. Quan, the personification of an only-in-Hollywood comeback story, jumped atop the table where the engraving of statuettes was taking place and let loose a guttural scream.
From New York Times
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