Sentence examples for line engraving from inspiring English sources

The mix of engraving styles was criticised; line engraving was considered the superior form and artists and subscribers disliked the mixture of lesser forms with it.

Scholars believe that a variety of engraving methods were employed and that line engraving was the "preferred medium" because it was "clear and hardwearing" and because it had a high reputation.

The latter demonstrated that line engraving is a suitable medium for much modern art, including abstraction.

Another term for the process, line engraving, derives from the fact that this technique reproduces only linear marks.

The softness of the copper made it possible to combine etching and line engraving in the same print.

With mezzotint, a related technique invented in the 17th century by Ludwig von Siegen, they almost completely replaced line engraving in the 18th century.

Except, somehow, in that line engraved in the pavement, on a seldom visited sidewalk in Battery Park City, in front of Poets House: une catastrophe!

They are best known for Caddoan bottles, with patterns incised into the clay while it was still wet, or with fine lines engraved after firing, with red or white pigment rubbed into the design.

A truly universal science, physiognomonics provides its master not only with a key for decoding the ciphers written into human faces (by relating them to the shapes of animals) or a manual for reading the lines engraved into the palms of our hands, but also (as Porta suggests) with diagnostic methods for understanding all of creation, from plants to stars.

The decoration of the covers includes three pigments filling lines engraved with a sharp pointed instrument, which now appear as two shades of yellow, one bright and the other pale, and a dark colour that now appears as blue-grey, but was recorded as blue in the earliest descriptions.

There should be two lines or sets of lines engraved on your mouthpiece, line it up evenly between these.