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 compass card, made from a line engraving, is identical in each of the three examples.
From Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Silvio A. Bedini
In line etching, as in line engraving, the great masters purposely exhibit the line and do not hide it under too much shading.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
It appeared as though line engraving could not keep pace with the ever-growing demand for pictures, and was therefore combined with stipple to facilitate production.
From Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes by Joseph Kirkbride
If it failed artistically to measure up to line engraving or to plank woodcut, this was not the fault of the process but of the popular reproductive ends which it almost invariably served.
From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Jacob Kainen
