Sentence examples for by engravings from inspiring English sources

The capitals crowning the pillows are inspired by Ancient Egyptian architecture, popularized by engravings.

UNLIKE Martha's miniature, on which virtually every owner is identified by engravings on the back of the locket, the museum's work was of unknown provenance until 1924.

In order to gain wide publicity for his teachings and his work, Ashoka made them known by means of oral announcements and by engravings on rocks and pillars at suitable sites.

The director collaborated with the painter Jean-Baptiste Marot, above, to transform his storyboards into 37 fully realized canvases, "inspired," Rohmer says, "by engravings and paintings of the period".

His book, which reveals the wide range of his learning, was the first comparative history of the architecture of all times and all nations; it included significant specimens of Egyptian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Muslim, Indian, and Chinese architecture, illustrated by engravings with explanatory notes.

It shows the Bard as a far more alluring figure than the solemn-faced, balding image that has been conveyed by engravings, busts and portraits that have been accepted by scholars as the best available likeness of English literature's most famous figure.

Later, with funds raised by engraving Boris's watches, Elliott upgraded to a $200 Rolleiflex, his first "real" camera.

The designer, referring to opals, said that he liked "different associations of color," and he also worked an intricate floral theme by engraving flowers on sapphires.

It is one thing to get such precision of line and detail with a pen or pencil, or by engraving, but Rubens does it with paint.

Probably in reaction against the banality of pressed-glass imitations of cutting, the most sophisticated work in crystal during the later 1850s through the 1870s was decorated by engraving, often carried out by immigrant Bohemian craftsmen.

Fabergé produced more than 140 colors by engraving gold sheets with a design -- often a sunburst -- and then adding as many as six microscopic layers of tinted enamel one by one through a heat process that has never been duplicated.