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

Artistic Qualities.—Although capable of most charming effects, the mezzotint process never became a really serious menace to line engraving, with its firm and expressive outlines and peculiarly lustrous textures.

From Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes by Kirkbride, Joseph

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 Ruskin, John

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

So much for the strength of the blast; its delicacy is illustrated by this beautiful example of line engraving, etched on glass by means of the Blast.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John