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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 ...
Indian copper plate inscriptions. Indian copper plate inscriptions are historical legal records engraved on copper plates in the Indian subcontinent. [1] Donative inscriptions engraved on copper plates, often joined by a ring with the seal of the donor, were legal documents registering the act of endowment. It was probably necessary to produce ...
The publication of these engravings in the New York Magazine was of great importance to Tiebout's early career. The publisher, T. and J. Swords, approved of Tiebout's "costly copperplate engravings", and they published a map by Tiebout in issues of the New York City Directory for the years 1789-1793, 1795, and
Photogravure. Photogravure (in French héliogravure) is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive ...
Johann Friedrich Müller. Müller's engraving of Raphael's Sistine Madonna; from a drawing by Apollonia Seydelmann. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (11 December 1782, Stuttgart - 3 May 1816, Pirna) was a German copperplate engraver.
Robert Tannahill. Engraving from the Biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen (1875) Robert Tannahill as appearing on the Scott Monument. Robert Tannahill (3 June 1774 – 17 May 1810) was a Scottish poet of labouring class origin. Known as the 'Weaver Poet', he wrote poetry in English and lyrics in Scots in the wake of Robert Burns.
Pinelli was educated first in Bologna and then at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He returned to live in Trastevere, then a poor quarter of Rome. His initial studio was on Piazza Sciarra on the Corso. His son, Achille Pinelli, was a famous watercolorist in his own right. An extremely prolific engraver, his illustrations depicted the costumes ...
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 ...