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

Yet these volumes are enough to show what lovely service line engraving might be put upon, if the general taste were advanced enough to desire it.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature 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

The 18 woodcut tradition mimicked line engraving and was confined chiefly to tiny blocks wrought with the utmost delicacy.

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

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