engrave
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Herman Melville’s American classic was given new life by Kent’s dramatic engravings.
The art was reissued later that year by Random House in a one-volume trade edition, helping to make Kent’s turbulent engravings—of Captain Ahab, the Pequod’s crew and the elusive white whale—iconic.
His ink-wash eyewitness accounts were widely printed and engraved, and might be termed his first watercolors as an adult.
Later historians described this engraving and, despite having never seen the painting, catalogued its existence.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
