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
The 18 woodcut tradition mimicked line engraving and was confined chiefly to tiny blocks wrought with the utmost delicacy.
From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen
And, in sum, I know no cause more direct or fatal, in the destruction of the great schools of European art, than the perfectness of modern line engraving.
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin
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
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 John Ruskin
