Sentence examples for engravings for from inspiring English sources

Boydell sought out the most eminent painters and engravers of the day to contribute paintings for the gallery, engravings for the folio, and illustrations for the edition.

The Library owns 1400 Dickens autograph letters, the largest American collection of manuscripts, checkbooks, original drawings & engravings for Dickens books.

One of his agents entered the highly respected Knoedler Gallery and bought 21 photographs and three engravings for $18.

He then worked in the studio built for him in his parents' house, and made prints and engravings for Lucio Fontana, Giorgio de Chirico and other artists.

They range from his early wood engravings for "Ballou's Pictorial" to his last illustration for "Harper's Weekly" in 1875, when he was 39.

In 1924 he was asked to do engravings for the Golden Cockerel Press; the best remembered of his hundreds of engravings and dozens of books is the Four Gospels (1931), printed from type expressly designed by him for the press.

A traditional technique of the goldsmith long before engraving for printing purposes was developed, criblé was also used to make the earliest metal prints on paper.

In 1870, Evans printed In Fairyland, a Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, illustrated by James Doyle's brother Richard in which Doyle depicted fairies living "among birds, snails, butterflies and beetles as large as themselves", and Evans produced his largest wood-engravings for the volume.

With great demand for engraving for notes being issued by state banks, the firm prospered, and had offices at 60 Walnut Street in Philadelphia and a branch at 1 Wall Street in New York.

Boucher's first major commission was for engravings of 125 drawings by Antoine Watteau.

Amazingly, he got them back.In 1823 he went to Philadelphia and New York seeking subscribers who could pay for engravings of his bird paintings.