engraving
雕刻,雕刻品,雕刻术,蚀刻
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- : the act or art of a person who or thing that engraves.
- : the art of forming designs by cutting, corrosion by acids, a photographic process, etc., on the surface of a metal plate, block of wood, or the like, for or as for the purpose of taking off impressions or prints of the design so formed.
- : the design engraved.
- : an engraved plate or block.
- : an impression or print from this.
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Examples
Using just a torch or a lamp from below, the paintings and engravings stay hidden.
Johanna Mueller’s “Jackalope,” a relief engraving that riffs on the fictitious hybrid proffered on postcards in the American West, embeds a small antelope inside a comparatively mammoth rabbit.
However, the poet faithfully defended his livelihood, insisting that engraving was a true art.
He famously said, “Painting is drawing on canvas and engraving is drawing on copper and nothing else.”
But engraving is a painstaking and laborious art that requires patience, precision and lack of whim.
It was supposed by many on its discovery to grow like the engraving given—in form resembling a tree or shrub rather than an herb.
We give an engraving of a kind of pipe used by the natives of interior Africa.
This the man did drawing his knife in the manner denoted by the dotted lines in the engraving.
The following engraving, after a sketch by Maitland, shows a gallery wider and more rudely excavated.
The perfumer destined this engraving for the savant Vauquelin, to whom he was under obligations.