Sentence examples for made engravings from inspiring English sources

Comstock made engravings for the more than 600 plates in her husband's Manual for the Study of Insects (1895) and for Insect Life (1897) and How to Know the Butterflies (1904), both of which she co-authored.

And we do have engravings that were made, engravings and paintings, that were made when the Colosseum was in better condition, and when some of that stucco and painted decoration still existed.

He made engravings, genre scenes, and portraits — a jolly band of new colonials dances on the shore for "Peg Leg Pete Stuyvesantt, and Thomas Cole and Andrew Jackson glower from ornate frames.

I have used museum collections to compare fossils with marine remains; I have consulted a large number of authors, used their descriptions and the accompanying figures, and I made engravings of all the shells that no one has pictured before, together with some which have only imperfect drawings.

So in 1600 he throws away his burin and takes up history painting, never to make engravings again.

In the early '80s he spent a year making engravings, which he then hand-painted and assembled in a limited-edition book titled "A Book of Fiction".

In 1827 he sold several subscriptions at $1,000 each and was able to hire Robert Havell Sr. of London to make engravings of his watercolors.

One machine can be used to cut through thin materials as well as make engravings on them.

The fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's set off serious hardship on the island, artists said, which tested their creativity in unexpected ways: inks were improvised from black powder and soap, and beer cans were split open to make engraving plates, for example.

He also made many engravings of paintings by Italian masters and by his friends, the fashionable painters Giovanni Cipriani and Angelica Kauffmann.

"I knew Stubbs from the Tate gallery and other places, but I didn't know he had dissected horses and made these engravings.