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Plate of Marcantonio, from Le vite de’ piv eccellenti pittori, scvltori, e architettori (Fiorenza: Appresso i Giunti, 1568), by Giorgio Vasari. Marcantonio Raimondi, often called simply Marcantonio (c. 1470/82 – c. 1534), [1] was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists largely of prints copying paintings.
Johann Heinrich “Henry” Gugler also known as Henry Gugler (September 27, 1816 - September 6, 1880) was an engraver for the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing. His most important work was an engraving of Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln engraving was used on the United States five-dollar bill beginning with the Series of 1928.
Though, like other prints, his are often loosely described as "engravings", the main technique he used was etching, with some prints entirely in true engraving or in drypoint. Many prints used a mixture of techniques, as was common at the time. In all he produced about 300 prints. He is famous for revising prints, sometimes over a period of ...
Henry Winkles [1] (1801–1860) was an English architectural illustrator, engraver and printer, who, together with Karl Ludwig Frommel founded the first studio for steel engraving in Germany. Botanic Garden and cathedral, Cologne, 1820 - engraved by Henry Winkles
In the German-language video series "Von Aristoteles zur Stringtheorie", ("From Aristotle to String Theory"), which is hosted on YouTube and produced by Urknall, Weltall, und das Leben, [22] and features Professor Joseph Gaßner as lecturer, a colored Flammarion engraving was selected as a logo, but the man is peering at a background filled ...
John Boydell (1801), after William Beechey. John Boydell (/ ˈ b ɔɪ d əl / BOY-dəl; 19 January [O.S. 8 January] 1720 – 12 December 1804) was an English publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings.
The pressure exerted by the press on the paper pushes it into the engraved lines and prints the image made by those lines. In an intaglio print, the engraved lines print black. Wood engraving is a relief printing technique, with the images made by carving into fine-grained hardwood blocks. Ink is rolled onto the surface of the block, dry paper ...
His prints show an engraving technique closely related to drawing, with forms conceived in three dimensions and delicately modeled; other engravers were usually trained either as armourers or as goldsmiths, such as Master E. S. or Israhel van Meckenem, and their works display a different set of stylistic conventions. [1]