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  1. Engraving - Wikipedia

    • 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 intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called "eng… See more

    Terms

    Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. See more

    Process

    Engravers use a hardened steel tool called a burin, or graver, to cut the design into the surface, most traditionally a copper plate. However, modern hand engraving artists use burins or gravers to cut a variety of metals suc… See more

    History

    For the printing process, see intaglio (printmaking). See also Steel engraving and line engraving
    The first evidence for hominids engraving patterns is a chiselled shell, dating back between 54… See more

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  1. Engraved designs have been found on prehistoric bones, stones, and cave walls. The technique of duplicating images goes back several thousand years to the Sumerians (c. 3000 bce), who engraved designs and cuneiform inscriptions on cylinder seals (usually made of stone), which, when rolled over soft clay tablets, left relief impressions.
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    Many engravers trained in Antwerp, subsequently establishing themselves across Europe. Engraving was developed as an original art form in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by Albrecht Dürer, Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden, and Italian Andrea Mantegna.
     
  2. Printmaking - Etching, Engraving, Relief | Britannica

     
  3. Engraving | Techniques, History & Uses | Britannica

  4. The Printed Image in the West: Engraving | Essay

    Albrecht Dürer, a great admirer of Mantegna’s pictorial inventions, derived his engraving technique from Schongauer and other Northern engravers. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Dürer carried the technique to a degree of …

  5. Engraving | History of Science Museum

    Engraving was developed as an original art form in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by Albrecht Dürer, Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden, and Italian Andrea Mantegna. The seventeenth century saw two notable traditions develop; the …

  6. The Greatest Engraving Art: History, Famous …

    The Englishman Thomas Bewick invented the transverse engraving method and created masterly illustrations for the History of British Birds, Aesop’s fables and Robert Burns’ poems. The 20th century of graphics passed under the sign of …

  7. Engraving - New World Encyclopedia

    An engraving of St. Jerome by Albrecht Dürer, dated 1514. Engraving is the practice of cutting a design into a hard surface such as metal or wood. This process is often used to produce decorative objects made of such materials as …

  8. People Known for: arts, visual - engraving | Britannica

  9. The Evolution of Engraving: From Ancient Times to Modern Laser …

  10. Engraving - History, Artists, Facts - Arthive

    By the middle of the 15th century, the engraving technique was invented in Germany, the principle of which came from the art of jewelry. Artisans carved a drawing with a sharp cutter on a metal plate, usually copper.

  11. Engraving: Printmaking Technique

  12. A Quick Dive into Engraving History and Evolution

  13. Engraving — Art Mediums - Obelisk Art History

  14. Timeline - The Art of the Photogravure

  15. History of Printing Timeline

  16. Printmaking - Etching, Engraving, Woodcut | Britannica

  17. The History of Engraving | Types of Engraving - Gem Awards

  18. Engraving: Famous artists and artworks - Arthive

  19. The History of Engraving and Its Significance in Modern Art

  20. The Invention of Copper Engraving, from Nova Reperta