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

I shall not, however, give any elaborate illustrations of them here, because I could not do them justice on the scale of the page of this volume, or by means of line engraving.

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

A mariner's card, set into the opening with a metal vernier scale, is in the usual form of the mariner's compass card of the 18th century; it is executed as a line engraving.

From Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Bedini, Silvio A.

It could, in fact, have black lines so fine and so closely spaced as to take on the character of line engraving.

From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Kainen, Jacob

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