Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations. The term is now much less used and when is, it is mainly in connection with 18th or 19th century commercial illustrations for magazines and books, or reproductions of paintings. Steel engraving is an overlapping term, for images that in fact are of...
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(from the article `engraving`) ...been incised with a cutting tool called a burin. Modern examples are almost invariably made from copperplates; hence, the process is also called ...
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