line engraving

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line engraving

a. A metal plate, used in intaglio printing, on the surface of which design lines have been engraved by hand.

b. The process of making such an engraving.

c. A print made from such an engraving.

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line′ engrav`ing

an engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.

line engraving

Engraving directly onto a metal plate with cutting tools, producing precise lines and shading added by hatching dots. Probably began in fifteenth-century Italy, flowering in the work of Dürer.

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Noun	1.	line engraving - a print obtained from a line drawing linecut engraving - a print made from an engraving
	2.	line engraving - engraving consisting of a block that has been etched or engraved line block, linecut engraving - a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved

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Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved upon the body itself.

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Today we have direct exposure, which is DLE, the direct line engraving, which is the main machine now in the market.

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Murray's engraving, accompanied by its description, began a tradition that the editors chose to follow and, as Karol Ann Peard Lawson stressed in her interesting article on landscapes, Port Folio "was at its zenith profusely illustrated with scenic plates." (10) The following year, Murray produced a plate by line engraving, in which the image is created by direct linear cuts into a copper plate with a burin and without the use of resin, wax, or acid baths.

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These methods of transfer printing used line engraving on copper plates, with the design being transferred on tissue paper.

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Sarabia, who depicted John Walker in bronze in 1981, described him as "a smart and trim little man" from a line engraving. Rumour has it that Sarabia initially depicted a different John Walker from a portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.

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She wills us to see as much beauty in the steel line engraving of winter as in the watercolors of spring or the oil paintings of summer.

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In line engraving and etching/engraving the artist cuts or etches grooves or other marks in the polished surface of a copper plate; to print, the entire plate surface is inked, then wiped clean except for the ink in the grooves, which transfers as lines when the plate and paper are pressed together very tightly in a rolling press.