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thumb|Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer)|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 intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called "engravings". Engraving is one of the oldest and most important techniques in printmaking.
Research
331 papers- Communication in healthcare: a narrative review of the literature and practical recommendations.International journal of clinical practice · 2015
- Multifunctional nacre-like materials.Materials horizons · 2023
- Experimental investigation of laser engraving quality on paper.Applied optics · 2020
- The Influence of Selected Laser Engraving Parameters on Surface Conditions of Hybrid Metal Matrix Composites.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
- A rock engraving made by Neanderthals in Gibraltar.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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22 sectionsContents
- Terms
- Process
- Tools and gravers or burins
- Tool geometry
- Tool sharpening
- Artwork design
- Handpieces
- Cutting the surface
- Finishing
- Modern hand engraving
- Machine engraving
- Computer-aided machine engraving
- History
- Music engraving
- Applications today
- Creating tone
- Biblical references
- Noted engravers
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer)|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 intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called "engravings". Engraving is one of the oldest and most important techniques in printmaking. Wood engravings, a form of relief printing and stone engravings, such as petroglyphs, are not covered in this article.
Engraving was a historically important method of producing images on paper in artistic printmaking, in mapmaking, and also for commercial reproductions and illustrations for books and magazines. It has long been replaced by various photographic processes in its commercial applications and, partly because of the difficulty of learning the technique, is much less common in printmaking, where it has been largely replaced by etching and other techniques.