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  2. Art and engraving on United States banknotes - Wikipedia

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    Art and engraving on United States banknotes. In early 18th century Colonial America, engravers began experimenting with copper plates as an alternative medium to wood. Applied to the production of paper currency, copper-plate engraving allowed for greater detail and production during printing. It was the transition to steel engraving that ...

  3. Copperplate map of London - Wikipedia

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    The "Copperplate" map of London is an early large-scale printed map of the City of London and its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views, such as those of Anton van den Wyngaerde). The original map was probably designed for hanging on ...

  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. Transfer printing - Wikipedia

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    The process starts with an engraved metal printing plate similar to those used for making engravings or etchings on paper. The plate is used to print the pattern on tissue paper, using mixes of special pigments that stand up to firing as the "ink". The transfer is then put pigment-side down onto the piece of pottery, so that the sticky ink ...

  6. List of engravings by Albrecht Dürer - Wikipedia

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    Copper engraving: 316 × 225 mm: B61 The Penance of St John Chrysostom: 1494–1498: Copper engraving: 183 × 119 mm: B63 The Deformed Landser Sow: 1494–1498: Copper engraving: 118 × 126 mm: B95 The Prodigal Son: 1494–1498: Copper engraving: 247 × 191 mm: B28 The Small Fortune: 1495–1496: Copper engraving: 120 × 66 mm: B78 The Small ...

  7. Line engraving - Wikipedia

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    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, giving similar ...

  8. Quilon Syrian copper plates - Wikipedia

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    The Kollam (Quilon) Syrian copper plates, also known as the Kollam Tarisappalli copper plates, document a royal grant issued by Ayyan Adikal, the chieftain of Kollam, to a Syrian Christian merchant named Mar Sapir Iso in Kerala, India. The inscription is engraved on six copper plates in Old Malayalam or early Middle Tamil, using Vattezhuthu ...

  9. Stipple engraving - Wikipedia

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    Stipple engraving is a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. The pattern is created on the printing plate either in engraving by gouging out the dots with a burin, or through an etching process. [1] Stippling was used as an adjunct to conventional ...

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