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

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 Ruskin, John

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

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

In 1761 he made a drawing of Salisbury Cathedral for Edward Eaton, “bookseller at Sarum,” for a line engraving dedicated by Eaton to the Lord Bishop of Winchester.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob