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  2. Art and engraving on United States banknotes - Wikipedia

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    The first series of Federally-issued United States banknotes was authorized by Congressional acts on 17 July 1861 (12 Stat. 259) and 5 August 1861 (12 Stat. 313). While the Demand Notes were issued from the United States Treasury, they were engraved and printed elsewhere. In 1861, in fact until the mid-1870s, the Treasury Department lacked the ...

  3. Wood engraving - Wikipedia

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    Leather-covered sandbag, wood blocks and tools (burins), used in wood engraving. Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure.

  4. Engraving - Wikipedia

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    Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...

  5. Cowdray engravings - Wikipedia

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    The Cowdray engravings are based on five paintings produced for Sir Anthony Browne, King Henry VIII 's Master of the Horse. [1] They were probably produced between 1545 and 1548 and were painted onto the walls of Browne's hall in Cowdray House. [2] They showed key scenes in his life and might have been used by him when recounting stories during ...

  6. List of engravings by Albrecht Dürer - Wikipedia

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    106 × 76 mm. B56. Virgin and Child Standing on a Crescent Moon. 1498–1500. Copper engraving. 107 × 77 mm. B30. The Man of Sorrows with Arms Outstretched. 1500.

  7. William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job - Wikipedia

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    Plate 11 of the engravings, detail of centre image. William Blake 's Illustrations of the Book of Job primarily refers to a series of twenty-two engraved prints (published 1826) by Blake illustrating the biblical Book of Job. It also refers to two earlier sets of watercolours by Blake on the same subject (1806 and 1821).

  8. Photoengraving - Wikipedia

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    A print made in 1907 from a photoengraved plate. It reproduces a sketch of Parga's castle made by Ludwig Salvator.. Photoengraving is a process that uses a light-sensitive photoresist applied to the surface to be engraved to create a mask that protects some areas during a subsequent operation which etches, dissolves, or otherwise removes some or all of the material from the unshielded areas of ...

  9. Line engraving - Wikipedia

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    Line engraving. Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations. The term is mainly used in connection with 18th- or 19th-century commercial illustrations for magazines and books or reproductions of paintings. It is not a technical term in printmaking, and can cover a variety of techniques ...

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