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

This was not simply an ordinary line engraving printed in relief rather than in the usual way; the management of the lights shows that it was planned as a white-line engraving.

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

Jackson was interested in broad effects even when leaning heavily on the delicate linear conventions of line engraving.

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

I could not succeed in expressing the variation and chequering of color in marble, by real tints in the print; and have been content, therefore, to give them in line engraving.

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

Rembrandt was more directly associated with etching than with line engraving, but his influence was far from exclusive.

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