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  2. Engraving - Wikipedia

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    Engraving. St. Jerome in His Study (1514), engraving by Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an ...

  3. Flammarion engraving - Wikipedia

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    The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"), published in 1888 by the French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion. [1][2] Several authors during the 20th century considered it to be either a ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Visscher panorama - Wikipedia

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    Visscher panorama. The Visscher panorama is an engraving by Claes Visscher (1586-1652) depicting a panorama of London. It shows an imagined view of London in around 1600. The engraving was first published in Amsterdam in 1616, with the title "Londinum Florentissima Britanniae Urbs Toto Orbe Celeberrimum Emporiumque".

  7. Diana Bloomfield - Wikipedia

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    Overview of her life and work. In terms of her training and later contacts Bloomfield, who was active in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, stands rather apart from the mainstream of the wood engraving world of her period. She was not a member of the revived Society of Wood Engravers. Her work was largely commercial and she illustrated few books.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Gustave Doré - Wikipedia

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    Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (UK: / ˈdɔːreɪ / DOR-ay, US: / dɔːˈreɪ / dor-AY, French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature ...

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