Sentence examples for first engraving from inspiring English sources

Upon arrival, we see an early printing of the Constitution -- issued less than two weeks after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 -- as well as the first engraving of the Declaration of Independence created by nostalgic Americans in 1818.

At age 16, he left home to be a jeweler's apprentice, and at 18, he landed his first engraving job.

Hogarth was a printmaker of the people, whose work was so popular that to protect it from imitators he instigated the first engraving copyright act of 1735.

Martin Schongauer is the first engraver known to have been not only a goldsmith but also a painter.

First, engrave everything not just with the name of the establishment but with "Property of (name of establishment)." Would wealthy socialites want their guests to notice that their dinner-party hosts put out stolen property for guests to use?

"In God We Trust" was first engraved on American coins in 1864, when President Grant was just General Grant, and became mandatory for all coins and bills in 1955, just a year after the phrase "under God" was added to the pledge of allegiance.

In response, Patterson had Mint Second Engraver Christian Gobrecht break off work on the new design for the silver one-dollar coin and work on a pattern for the gold dollar.

In 1780 his first signed engraving was published, and in 1781 his first oil painting, "A Hovel With Asses," was exhibited at the Academy.

In the Stratford scheme of things, Shakespeare, depicted in the First Folio engraving by Martin Droeshout, was born in 1564 and died in 1616.

Ben Jonson said that the First Folio engraving looked just like him, saying, "could he [Droeshout] but have drawn his wit as well in brass, as he hath hit his face/the print would then surpass/all that was ever writ in brass," and Jonson knew him as well as anyone.

Ben Jonson wrote a short poem "To the Reader" commending the First Folio engraving of Shakespeare by Droeshout as a good likeness.