How To Use Engraver In A Sentence
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_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
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Benedetto Montagna worked as a painter and engraver well into the cinquecento.
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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.
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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
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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
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Why should not the copper engraver and the aquafortist avail themselves of the same advantages?
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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He was a prolific copper engraver and etching artist of maps and town views.
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Alfred Joseph Annedouche, a frequent engraver of large plates for Goupil, produced the mezzotint in 1873, two years after Bouguereau made the painting.
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A mezzotint plate produced fewer impressions than a line engraving, but the engravers bewailed its invention, as being an easier and more facile process.
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Ridley, William (1764 – 1838): one of the leading engravers of the time, Ridley stipple-engraved many portraits, including
Index of People
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The various combinations and recombinations of these elements, moreover, give rise to several orders of movement within the art, and the images owe much of their dynamism to an intricate play of form at the hands of the engraver.
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It is true, that very often artists may be found who unite in themselves the designer and the engraver, the etcher and the finisher, the chemist and the transferer, but no instance is recorded of any one man possessing sufficient knowledge to successfully produce a set of duplicate plates of such high artistic merit as has been required by the bankers of this continent for the last fifty years.
Remarks on the Manufacture of Bank Notes, and Other Promises to Pay. Addressed to the Bankers of the Southern Confederacy.
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French designer and engraver of vignettes, frontispieces, and decorations for books.
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The stamps, which depict three well-known Washington sights, were printed using the original dies created in 1923 by engravers at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
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Mr Hall spoke of their surprise that the building where the die was found - the house or workshop of a ‘moneyer’ or engraver - was of wattle construction.
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Sending pewter to a trained engraver had been banned by the English pewterers ' guild as early as 1588 but continued to be allowed by continental guilds.
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During his lifetime Blake wrote many volumes of poetry and religious philosophy, and was an accomplished artist and engraver.
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He was a master engraver in his own right, and it turned out it took him a week to forge a single tenner.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Mr. JOHN MERCANTI (Chief Engraver, United States Mint): When they do a portrait, I want them to know exactly what the whole muscle structure in the face is, orbicularis oculi, orbicularis oris.
Sculpting The Digital Dollar
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A client from Greece looks for laser engraver machines to engrave portrait on crystal & opal.
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During his lifetime Blake wrote many volumes of poetry and religious philosophy, and was an accomplished artist and engraver.
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[6] Richard Cooper (d. 1814) was an etcher and engraver, well known especially for landscapes.
Letter 178
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Park, Thomas (1758/9 – 1834): trained as an engraver, Park became a poet, book-collector, antiquary, bibliographer and editor — not least of Bloomfield's poetry.
Index of People
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This branch of lithography, which is nearly dependent on the efforts of the steel engraver, and has been in vogue for many years, principally in England, and of late introduced to this country, where it has met with very great success, is simply the transferring of impressions of engraved plates to stone, and printing from the transfer.
Remarks on the Manufacture of Bank Notes, and Other Promises to Pay. Addressed to the Bankers of the Southern Confederacy.
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He wields the knife much as the engraver guides his burin over the plate… Marsyas is… a martyr for art.
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His novelties in technique often flowed from these tasks; he experimented with mezzotint, and worked closely with the engravers who translated his pictures into print.
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Such commissions were to become a lucrative money-spinner for die engravers in the 19th century.
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The novice engraver wandered unknowingly into a scrapbooking store.
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They have in their employ some of the very finest line engravers living, and their album of proofs, which I have seen, contains some really magnificent specimens of chalcography.
Echoes of the Week
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Many engravers at this time complained of the rivalry of easier techniques, such as mezzotint and stipple engraving, and argued for the moral superiority of their more demanding technique.
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Park, Thomas (1758/9 – 1834): trained as an engraver, Park became a poet, book-collector, antiquary, bibliographer and editor — not least of Bloomfield's poetry.
Index of People
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One does not contrast the exiguity of a pint of nitric acid in an engraver's studio with the hundreds of gallons of water in the cisterns of his house.
The Free Press
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A cockney by birth, he had been apprenticed to an engraver and had only become a soldier as a volunteer in the invasion scare of 1800.
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It is not, therefore, primarily an evaluative discipline except in so far as it may establish an order of excellence for particular printers, scribes or engravers, papermakers, or binders.
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A description of the medal, beginning with the obverse: 1st, the whole legend; 2d, the description of the emblems and devices; 3d, the legend of the exergue; 4th, the names of the designer and of the engraver.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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Mr. Tenniel's cartoons are put on wood precisely as they are meant to be cut, in broad, firm, sweeping lines, and the wood-engraver has only to scoop out the white interstices between the network of lines; whereas Mr. Leech dashed in a bold pen-and-ink-like sketch and trusted to the xylographer, who knew his style well and of old, to produce an engraving, _tant bien que mal_, but as bold and as dashing as the original.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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These are beautifully illustrated by the carefully executed plates of Lavoisier's wife, a highly skilled draftswoman, engraver, and painter who had studied under the artist Louis David.
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A cockney by birth, he had been apprenticed to an engraver and had only become a soldier as a volunteer in the Warwickshire fencibles (reserve cavalry) in the invasion scare of 1800.
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It is interesting to know that the engraver A. Patey only made the portrait side of the coin; another artist made the reverse with the three-headed elephant.
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He started to learn the trade of a die-sinker and engraver in Birmingham.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Spruce bark beetles were after the spruce trees and fir engraver beetles were killing subalpine fir trees.
Bird Cloud
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All this gift of goldsmithery comes as one would expect, quite naturally, from his powers as an engraver, in which art he held a first place in his time and was the master of the younger school, especially in Belgium and Germany.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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He was the son of a miniaturist and trained as a wood engraver.
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Rubens sometimes used monochrome techniques in sketching compositions for engravers.
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Landscape painter, engraver and lithographer of the Norwich School who worked in oils and watercolours.
Samuel David Colkett
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To further avoid any misunderstandings about his scores he would often write messages on them for engravers when he wanted to clarify notational details.
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A wood engraver, sculptor, typographer and draughtsman, Gill attended the Central School in London under the calligrapher and stone-mason Edward Johnston.
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He illustrated many of its books himself and also employed engravers.
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Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay, by permission of the Proprietor_] [Transcriber's note: names of painter and engraver are only guesswork.] [Illustration: AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER] "To call the pearly drops from Pity's eye,
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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In the seventeenth century there were a number of very accomplished portrait engravers who worked after their own drawings.
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However, often engravers’ and enamellers ' signatures do appear.
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These are beautifully illustrated by the carefully executed plates of Lavoisier's wife, a highly skilled draftswoman, engraver, and painter who had studied under the artist Louis David.
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He then tried his luck as an independent engraver for copper plates.
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Mr. JOHN MERCANTI (Chief Engraver, United States Mint): When they do a portrait, I want them to know exactly what the whole muscle structure in the face is, orbicularis oculi, orbicularis oris.
Sculpting The Digital Dollar
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This was hardly what John wanted; but, not to be beaten, he facsimiled the master's freehand in a sort of engraver's stipple, which his habitual neatness helped him to do in perfection.
The Life of John Ruskin
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It is similar to the technique of engraving, where a line is cut straight into the metal plate by the engraver.
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The engraver's tools make beautiful striations and cross-hatchings on foliage and on birds' wings and rictal bristles, feathers fine as whiskers, that watercolor alone can never produce.
The Joys of Slow Looking
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Ravilious was an engraver; it is no wonder his brush takes on the character of a burin, or that he describes volumes with rows of parallel lines as engravers do.
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Émile Reynaud's father was an horologer and medal engraver, and the Reynaud home was full of mysterious objects to fascinate the young Émile.
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Rubens sometimes used monochrome techniques in sketching compositions for engravers.
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We have a veteran engraver here.
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Reproductive photography of this sort remains bound to its function as the artist's record, as the engraver's aide-memoire, and as the low-quality alternative to the burin.
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Max, a goldsmith and engraver, established a company that manufactured costume jewelry.
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However, often engravers’ and enamellers ' signatures do appear.
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The wood engraver uses a hardwood, generally box, sawn across the grain of the wood and highly polished.
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Among his other skills, he was renowned as an engraver both in wood and in copperplate.
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The coining is still to be carried on on the premises, as the contracts offered for doing the work out of doors were too high or too incompetent; the 'engraver or die-sinker' is no longer to be permitted to work on his own private account; and, what is still better, when a new medal or new model is wanted, the best artists of the country are to have the opportunity of shewing their skill in the requisite designs; and, last, dealers in bullion will no longer be allowed to refine their gold at the public cost, for all the metal sent in in future 'must not exceed the standard weight.'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852
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Ala al-Din and his wife Zubaydah, the lutist, saying, “I conjure thee by the virtue of the names and talismans and characts engraver on this jewel, rise up with us, O Couch!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Edridge, Henry (1769 – 1821): engraver and miniaturist renowned for his portrait drawings.
Index of People
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Paul Revere, in his day job as a metalsmith and engraver, cut printing plates for Massachusetts depicting a sword-wielding patriot -- "Issued in Defence of American Liberty" -- that are iconic.
At Auction
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Young, John (1755 – 1825): mezzotint engraver and etcher.
Index of People
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Max, a goldsmith and engraver, established a company that manufactured costume jewelry.
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Jude Illingworth the engraver 's here demonstrating her techniques and I don't want to miss that.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Amid the gurgling of pine sap and slow flexing of the trees can be heard a stream of chirps: the calls of pinyon engraver beetles.
Beetle Mania
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Writers and engravers of pornography came out of the demimonde of heretics, freethinkers and libertines who made up the underside of those formative Western developments.
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CORNIOLE GIOVANNI DELLE, i.e. Giovanni of the Cornelians, the cognomen given to an engraver of these stones in the time of Lorenzo di Medici.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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The editor has not only extended the book's coverage by ten years but has included artists primarily known as etchers, engravers and lithographers.
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As the firm's engraver, he requires an artistic eye and a considerable amount of strength.
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The execution of Philip of Mahdiyah happened at the very time when engravers were at work on the silver planisphere, and al-Idrisi was bringing his decade and a half of study to an end by writing A Diversion for the Man Longing to Travel to Far-Off Places.
Delizia!
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(Printed for W.T. Sherwin, etc.) the Front. is subscribed with the name of painter and engraver; the past tenses are printed "bloomed," etc., in full; and the Imprint (_Sherwin, Printer,/Paternoster Row./_) is at the foot of p. 160.
The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry
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The decoration is ascribed to an anonymous engraver whose hand has been identified on approximately eighteen monteiths of the period.
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The range of his work is astonishingly broad: he was also an engraver, sculptor, photographer and interior designer.
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The other dishes and the ewers and basins are all signed by or have been convincingly attributed to a skilled but anonymous engraver known from his monogram signature as ‘P over M’.
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He was a wood engraver - a skilled contributor to the early 20th-century revival of this printmaking technique.
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Without giving anything away, I can mention that Wallace writes, "Elroy had the bottles examined by two experts, one an engraver who worked near the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York.
LENNDEVOURS:
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By manipulating the plate with his left hand in harmony with the motions of the burin, the engraver can facilitate the direction of the lines, as well as steadying the plate.
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By moving the portrait to the left, engravers made more room for a watermark.
