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US
/ɪnˈɡɹeɪvɝ/
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[ UK /ɛnɡɹˈeɪvɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnɡɹˈeɪvɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching
- a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate
How To Use engraver In A Sentence
- _Apelles_, the greatest of Greek painters, floruit circa 332 B.C. _Pyrgoteles_, one of the most famous gem-engravers of Greece. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
- Benedetto Montagna worked as a painter and engraver well into the cinquecento.
- This can be done using a sharp pointed object such as a steel nail, an engraver or a marker pen, with special ink which can only be seen under ultra-violet light and is not easily removed.
- Not only was he a silversmith of renown, but a patriot, soldier, grand master Mason, confidential agent of the state of Massachusetts Bay, engraver, picture-frame designer, and die-sinker. All About Coffee
- Marcel Stanley's brief compilation on Alfred Ernest Cousins, an engraver and die-sinker who prepared the dies for many of New Zealand's postage stamps in the 1890s, reproduces various relevant documents as a brochure for the 1980 New Zealand International Stamp Exhibition. Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
- Why should not the copper engraver and the aquafortist avail themselves of the same advantages? Photographic Reproduction Processes
- He was a prolific copper engraver and etching artist of maps and town views.
- Alfred Joseph Annedouche, a frequent engraver of large plates for Goupil, produced the mezzotint in 1873, two years after Bouguereau made the painting.
- A mezzotint plate produced fewer impressions than a line engraving, but the engravers bewailed its invention, as being an easier and more facile process.
- Ridley, William (1764 – 1838): one of the leading engravers of the time, Ridley stipple-engraved many portraits, including Index of People