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2. 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.

3. Society of Wood Engravers - Wikipedia

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   Society of Wood Engravers. Eve, a modern wood engraving by Eric Gill, a founder member of the Society, 1929. The Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) is a UK-based artists’ exhibiting society, formed in 1920, one of its founder-members being Eric Gill. It was originally restricted to artist-engravers printing with oil-based inks in a press ...

4. Cameo (carving) - Wikipedia

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   Cameo ( / ˈkæmioʊ /) is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. [1] Originally, and still in discussing historical work, cameo only referred to works where the relief image was of a ...

5. Burin (engraving) - Wikipedia

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   Burin (engraving) A burin diagram, showing the handle, shaft, cutting tip, and face. [1] The bend in the shaft is especially associated with wood engraving. [2] A burin ( / ˈbjʊərɪn, ˈbɜːrɪn / BUR (E)-in) is a steel cutting tool used in engraving, from the French burin (cold chisel). Its older English name and synonym is graver.

6. List of engravings by Albrecht Dürer - Wikipedia

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   194 × 135 mm. B75. Young Couple Threatened by Death; or the Promenade. 1496–1500. Copper engraving. 194 × 120 mm. B94. The Madonna with the Monkey. 1496–1500.

7. 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 ...