It is but the expedient of those who cannot etch sensation by the burin of their art of words.
But the burinwas too slow, even in the hands of the skilful engraver, for the necessities of the hour.
How often have I seen an exquisite drawing of Abbey's or Du Maurier's almost ruined by the slipping of the burin the one-thousandth part of an inch!
In the next territories adioyning doe inhabite two carnall brothers dukes of the Tartars, namely, Burin and Cadan, the sonnes of Thyaday, who was the sonne of Chingis Can.
In sixteenth century Italy they could scarcely come from the burin of one of Raphael's pupils: an epic burin, so to speak, and one contemptuous of qualities then considered of secondary importance.
During the whole of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries the French school of engraving had neither method nor bent of its own; but meanwhile it was a whim of fashion that every one should handle the burin or the point.
Towards the close of his life Audran laid by the burin for the pen.
In common with stipple engraving, it renders the loose and broken lines of the originals by substituting a mass of dots for the ordinary work of the burin or the needle.
Associating engraving with etching, he deepened with powerful touches of the burin those strokes of the needle which had merely served to suggest outlines, masses of shadow, and half-tints.
No one before him ever handled the burin with the same skill and vigour; no one ever cut outlines on the metal with such absolute certainty, or so carefully reproduced every detail of modelling.
The burin in Mantegna's hand displays a firmness that can no longer be called stiffness; and, while it hardly as yet can be said to imitate painting, competes in boldness and rapidity at least with the effect of chalk or the pen.
In his suggestions of life in motion, he imitated the swift and lively gait of the pencil, whilst his contours are touched with the severity of the pen, if not of the burin itself.
Lucas van Leyden was the first to use the burin artistically, or at least to handle it with a boldness and knowledge never foreshadowed in the timid essays of his predecessors.
In stipple engraving, the burin and the dry point are used alternately, according to the degree of vigour or delicacy required.
At this epoch engravings from the burin were taken with a pale ink, the composition of which is very different from the fine black ink of Schoeffer as well as of the old Italian printers.
The Book, the true Book, has nothing to do with all these inventions, and may well confine itself to the burin or the relief block.
For the engraving of the punches a sort of burin of tempered steel was used, which scooped out the part intended to remain white in the letter.
It thus naturally happened that the artists of the burin wished to employ their art in illustration, and taste was soon drawn to the new process.
It had, we may think, nearly disappeared in the midst of the continued invasion of the burin and etching.
On the other hand, a line engraving is obtained from incised lines on a plate of copper; that is, an instrument called a burin traces the lines, which are filled with greasy ink.
They had, at the same time, the genius that created and the intelligent burin that faithfully translated an idea.
Placentia Bay arrived at Burin the following morning in a thick fog, which occasionally lifted, showing a fine, wild coast with rocky headlands on all sides.
Burin was a pretty spot, and I saw it better on my return when there was no fog.
He often took the file or the burin from our hands to show us how to use it, and in such a paternal manner did he act that all our hearts went out to him.
Ever at his forge from earliest dawn, ever with his leathern apron on his loins, and the file, the hammer or the burin in his hand.
In his command of the burin Goltzius is not surpassed even by Durer; but his technical skill is often unequally aided by higher artistic qualities.
And let these works suffice to prove that Lucas may be numbered among those who have handled the burin with ability.
On the smoother end-grain it could be manipulated with extreme fineness, an impossibility with the plank side, which would tear slightly or "feather" when the burin was moved across the grain.
The engraver, using a burin similar to that employed in copper plate work, then ploughed out wood in delicate ribbons (see fig.
At this moment there was a knock at the door, and Burin entered, bearing a silver flagon, the stopper of which was made of a quaintly-carved dragon.
By the time Burin had done this, his eminence showed no further trace of excitement, except that his lips were very firmly set, and there was a slight frown on his forehead as he smoothed out the roll of the map.
The color obtained by the burin is deeper than that obtained by biting, as it cuts more deeply into the copper.
It is a well-known fact that the engraver who employs the burin (or graver), produces lines on the naked copper or steel which cross one another, and are measured and regular.
Third state--Bears evident marks of a coarser burin than that of Ravenet.
In the second state of Plate 1, there are evident marks of the burin of Hogarth in the faces of the Citizen and Peer; and each of the characters, especially the latter, is improved.
The first of these prints is copied from a plate in Jarvis' quarto translation of this inimitable work; it has neither painter nor engraver's name, but carries indisputable marks of the pencil and burin of Hogarth.
The burin and the puncheon, handled for the first time, do not yet trace out more than zigzags, lozenges, straight and semicircular lines crossing one another.
When used conventionally, the burin produces a very characteristic hard, controlled printed line, one which does not appear in this print.
Rembrandt's general use of theburin has been widely accepted.
It is quite possible that Rembrandt used the burin in some of his work on this and other prints, but it seems a somewhat less likely tool than the drypoint.
In addition he treated pictorial subjects in flat color areas without a key or outline block, a procedure used before him only by the 17th-century Chinese; and he combined burin work with knife cutting.
The writers favored wood engraving executed with theburin on the end grain of hard dense wood, such as box or maple, because it could produce finer details than the old woodcut, which made use of knife and horizontally grained wood.
The sky and other parts show English white-line burin work of the type found in Mattaire’s Latin Classics and Croxall’s Aesop’s Fables.
English pictorial relief prints for book illustration in the first decades of the 18th century had one characteristic in common; they were almost all done with the engraver’s burin on type metal or end-grain boxwood.
While it is likely that Jackson was an exception to the general rule in England (we have his word for it in the Enquiry, as we shall see), he was also deeply influenced by the prevailing English style of burin work on wood or type metal.
His splendid design, which shows considerable burin work, is at odds with the crudity of the remainder of the book.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: die; intaglio; needle; point; punch; rocker; seal; stamp; style
