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woodcut and wood engraving woodcut and wood engraving
woodcut and wood engraving prints made from designs cut in relief on wood, in contrast to copper or steel engraving and etching (which are intaglio ). The term woodcutting is loosely included within the wood-engraving process, from which, however, it can be distinguished. Woodcutting, the... Read more
Ludwig von Siegen Ludwig von Siegen
Ludwig von Siegen , c.1609-1680, German engraver, b. Holland, educated in Germany. He is said to have invented (c.1640) the mezzotint process of engraving. Among his seven known plates are portraits of Amalia Elisabeth of Hesse and of William II, prince of Orange, and his wife, Mary. His new method... Read more
engraving engraving
engraving in its broadest sense, the art of cutting lines in metal, wood, or other material either for decoration or for reproduction through printing . In its narrowest sense, it is an intaglio printing process in which the lines are cut in a metal plate with a graver, or burin. Furrows are... Read more
Wood engraving Wood engraving
WOOD ENGRAVING WOOD ENGRAVING. The earliest images produced in British North America were relief cuts engraved on wood blocks or type metal by printers such as John Foster (1648–1681), and others who worked anonymously. During the colonial period and later, these cuts appeared in... Read more
box box
box common name for the Buxaceae, a family of trees and shrubs with leathery evergreen leaves, native to the tropics and subtropics of the Old World and to Central America. The boxes (genus Buxus ) have been widely introduced to other regions for use as hedge plants and for their wood. Boxwood is... Read more
line engraving line engraving
line engraving. Term applied to a method of making prints (and the print so made) in which the design is cut directly into the surface of a metal (usually copper) plate. In normal parlance the word ‘engraving’ usually refers to line engraving, but the word is also used as a generic... Read more
Johannes Kip Johannes Kip
Kip, Johannes (b Amsterdam, 1653; d London, Apr. 1722). Dutch topographical engraver who settled in England in about 1690. He is best known for his engravings of country houses in the sumptuous Britannia illustrata (1708 and subsequent volumes). They are of modest artistic merit but have great... Read more
John Boydell John Boydell
John Boydell , 1719-1804, English engraver and print publisher, originator and builder of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. He studied engraving in London and early began to amass his fortune with the publication of his engravings of views of England and Wales. It is as the publisher of works by... Read more
Master E. S Master E. S
Master E. S. (sometimes called the Master of 1466 from the date on one of his engravings). German engraver working in the mid-15th century, named after the monogram on several of his surviving prints. He was the most prolific and influential of the early German engravers, working on profane and... Read more
Francesco Bartolozzi Francesco Bartolozzi
Francesco Bartolozzi , 1727-1815, Italian engraver. In Florence he studied drawing and painting and formed a lifelong friendship with Cipriani, most of whose plates he later engraved. In 1764 he went to London, where he became one of the original members of the Royal Academy. He was responsible for... Read more

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Becoming an art teacher c. 1800
Magazine article from: Art Education ...officers' metal buttons, carvings of gravestone skulls and angel heads, and engravings on printed paper. From...They also conveyed to you feelings of grief for loss of their...Around 1800, this theme was expressed in school children's...

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