Sentence examples for engravings i from inspiring English sources

"His full brown or mahogany beard and high massive forehead, intellectual face and eagle eyes, marked him as a man among men, resembling the finer full-bearded engravings I have seen of Stonewall Jackson," noted one Georgian soldier, Wiley C. Howard.

This was when, he writes, he got "a taste for pictures and good engravings … I certainly admired the best paintings, which I discussed with the old curator".

On one corner of the floor there is a huge digital image of Albrecht Dürer's engraving "Melencolia I".

In "The Shadow of Night," the album's centerpiece, Mr. Birtwistle reaches across the ages to find common cause with artistic lamentations: Albrecht Dürer's engraving "Melencolia I" and John Dowland's song "In Darkness Let Me Dwell".

A reviewer of the 1975 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition found a resemblance between the concept of the central panel and Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melencolia I (1514 in the figure's pose, the bat form, and the panel's radiance suggesting that Bacon's late triptychs evoke "memorable figural formulations" of classic Western culture.

Raimondi's engravings, in turn, had been taken from a series of drawings by Guilio Romano called "I Modi" ("The Positions" or "The Postures").

Of the George Herbert engravings he states: "these illustrations I consider the best that I ever engraved".

I spent a lot of time looking at a huge book of the engravings of Gustav Dore' and I'd have fantastic dreams.

"Oh that will just be a classroom film," I said, "full of engravings and titles and all very static".

I bought a $20 engraving tool and etched our name into a few items, then e-mailed myself photos in case the items are ever stolen.

His first important publication, which is also one of the finest examples of his work, was a group of engravings of the ceremonies attending King George I's establishment of the Order of the Bath (1725).