Modelling in terra-cotta, sculpture in stone and ivory, engraving on gems, were following it closely by the beginning of the 2nd millennium.
In minuteness of description and in beauty of engraving these works have not yet been equalled, and will never perhaps be surpassed.
This art and those of fresco- and vase-painting and of gem-engraving stood higher about the 15th century B.
They had sent me a little earlier a copy of Mr. Sartain's engraving from their water-color copy of Laurence's head of you.
They were eager to have the engravingpronounced a good likeness.
Our engraving is a portrait of a familiar character in New Zealand, chief Mete Kingi, who recently died at the age of one hundred years.
From this engraving (made from a photograph) our readers may obtain a clear idea of the Thibaudier sounding apparatus, and understand how the wheel over which the wire runs is set in motion by the Brothergood engine.
Our engraving is from the Illustrated Australian News.
It is said that this engraving sent down the circulation of Punch to an alarming point.
His contributions to that periodical had not exceeded one half-page engraving for some time, until he volunteered to compose the large Schwalbach picture.
The engraving presents a view of Mrs. Bolling's houses, looking southwest.
This is from an engraving in Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia, page 329.
The portrait here given is copied, by permission of the author, from an engraving in the Life of Peter Muhlenberg, by his grandson, Henry A.
All that remains of this spacious edifice are the two wings seen in the engraving above; the one on the right was the office, the one on the left was the guard-house.
De Chastellux, who afterward visited Petersburg, has the following notice of the building seen in the engraving upon the next page.
The place of his concealment is yet known as "Pyle's Pond," of which the engraving is a correct view, as it appeared when I visited the spot in 1849.
The accompanying portrait is from an engraving by St. Memin, an artist who engraved a large number of the distinguished men of our country at about the commencement of the present century.
The first object to which my attention was ealled was a small wooden building, represented in the engraving on the next page, situated opposite the hotel where I was lodged.
The scar made by the passage of that iron ball is quite prominent in the gable; it is denoted in the engraving by the dark spot.
There is also an active trade in embossing or engraving copper and brass utensils.
The "Andromeda" picture, of which Browning speaks in Pauline, was an engraving from a work of this artist.
A Woodburytype Engravingof Sir Frederick Leighton's picture (in the possession of Sir Bernhard Samuelson, Bart.
In Pauline, Mr. Browning has commemorated the fascination for his youthful mind which was exercised by an engraving of a picture by Caravaggio of Andromeda and Perseus.
The engraving on the opposite page is a correct and faithful sketch of this wonder of ancient American art, as I left it.
One of these I brought away with me; also several fragments of Penates, some of which are represented in the engraving at the close of this chapter.
Wood-engraving was in use for ages before it occurred to the mind of man that a letter might be as easily reproduced in that way as a picture or figure.
The colored engraving is an illustration of the picture writing of the Mexicans, from Lord Kingsborough’s great work.
The engraving of hieroglyphics and the art of painting both attained a remarkable degree of elegance; fine statues and bas-reliefs were executed in large numbers, and a widely spread school of art was developed.
I have chosen the first, because of Nebuchadrezzar's long sojourn at Riblah, which gave him sufficient time for the engraving of the stelse on Lebanon: the bas-reliefs of Wady.
A very pleasant picture of the musical family was painted in Paris, of which an engraving is given in the Biography.
The mansion, in the distance of the Engraving is, we believe, to be rebuilt in a correspondent style with the Gallery, and the whole when completed, will be one of the most splendid establishments in the metropolis.
Illustration: Handle of a Cave-man's hunting-knife with engraving of a man hunting the bison.
Illustration: A Cave-man's engraving of a tent with covering pulled one side so as to show the ends of the poles which support the roof.
Illustration: A Cave-man's engravingof two herds of wild horses.
Illustration: A Cave-man's engraving of a tent showing the interior structure.
The engraving of a seal upon a bear's tooth probably recorded a trip to the sea, while the rude sketch of the mammoth made on the mammoth's tusk, probably recorded a great hunt.
Illustration: The engraving of a cave-bear on a pebble.
Illustration: A Cave-man's engraving of a tent showing the exterior.
He had shown them the dagger Flaker made and the engraving of the Big Bear.
In this engraving a good deal of Rowlandson's manner is traceable, and the etching is at least due to his hand.
Holland of Oxford Street with his etchings, slightly varying his style as far as the manipulative portion of the engraving was concerned, but retaining all the more special features of his identity.
People who collect prints of the eighteenth century know anengraving which represents a tom-cat, rampant, holding up an oval portrait of a gentleman and standing, in order to do so, on a volume.
Westall's Views, and it was adorned by an engraving of Bromley's, after a drawing specially made by Sir George Beaumont to illustrate the poem.
But the character of the engraving is constant, the Flemish work being more florid in design, the lines shallower, and the broad lines cut with a chisel-pointed tool instead of the lozenge-shaped burin.
The priests of Annam employ a hieratic writing, which they call "Akhar Rik," especially for such purposes as engraving magical inscriptions on amulets.
This again recalls the custom of the Catholics of Bosnia, who invariably select Sunday or some other holy day for the ceremony of engraving the sacred sign.
Carey is a very equable and cheerful old man, in countenance very like the engraving of him with his pundit, though not so robust as he appears to be there.
A line engraving of the portrait was published in England the year after at a guinea, and widely purchased, the profit going to the mission.
Protesting that an engraving of his portrait had been published in violation of the agreement which he had made with the artist, he agreed to the wish of each of his relatives for a copy.
It is represented by an engraving in "The Fenland.
Footnote 125: The site of this manor house of Bourn is shown in an engraving in the "Fenland Past and Present.
The little engraving which, with a new motto, forms a fitting tail-piece to this volume, was the outcome.
Father Schott, in his "Physica Curiosa," gives an account of the resurrection of a sparrow and actually gives an engraving in which the bird is shown in a bottle revived!
After anengraving by Ambroise Tardieu, from a painting on glass in the Convent of the R.
After the engraving by Greatbach, "from a scarce print by H.
The island where Rollo saw the wheel was not the one seen in the engraving on page 58.
It stands near the further end of the bridge, as seen in the engraving on page 58.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engraving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
