Intaglio is thus applied to incised gems, as cameo (q.
The former include relieved features and intaglio features, which are executed in the plastic clay, and the latter comprise figures in color, penciled or painted upon the surface.
He had hardly recovered from this disappointment than he was again thrown into a tumult by the receipt of a mysterious package from the custom-house containing an intaglio ring.
He at once carried the intaglio to an expert at the Metropolitan Museum, and when he was told that it represented Cupid feeding a fire upon an altar, he reserved a stateroom on the first steamer bound for the Mediterranean.
But I must drop him to thank you for the charming intaglio which you have stolen for me by his means: it is admired as much as it deserves; but with me it has all the additional merit of coming from you.
Stosch has grievously offended me; but that he will little regard, as I can be of no use to him: he has sold or given his charming intaglio of the Gladiator to Lord Duncannon.
He mechanically picked up the intaglio ring from the table while he stood there, and put it on his little finger; his hand was not much bigger than Christine's.
She stood a moment to pull the intaglio ring from the finger where Beaton put it a year ago, and dashed that at her father's plate.
Amongst the Italians none before him had ever thought of trying to print from a work engraved in incised line or intaglio on metal; and therefore, at least, in his own country, he deserved the honours of priority.
The art of printing from plates cut in intaglio had no sooner been discovered by, or at least dignified by the practice of, a Florentine goldsmith, than upon every side fresh talent was evoked.
Intaglio and relief work evinces much greater skill--the incised forms especially giving evidence of long experience.
The interior, as well as the exterior, has received painted, relieved, and intaglio designs.
This powerfully-conceived head is said to have been taken from a smallintaglio cut in cornelian.
Intaglio continued to be generally employed, until the accession of the XXVIth Dynasty, when the low relief was again introduced; and in the monuments of Psamthek and Aahmes are numerous instances of the revival of the ancient style.
This was afterwards universally adopted, and a return to intaglio on large monuments was only occasionally attempted, in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldæan intaglio reproduced in Layard.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldæan intaglio pointed out by Heuzey-Sarzcc; the original is in the Louvre.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the Chaldæan intaglio in the British.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldæan intaglio in the Museum at the Hague.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldæan intaglio of green jasper in the Louvre.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldæan intaglio in the New York Museum.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an Assyrian intaglioillustrated in A.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an Assyrian intaglio published by Layard.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldæan intaglio in the British Museum.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldæan intaglio from Layard.
The vignette, which is by Faucher-Gudin, is reproduced from an intaglio in the Cabinet des Médailles.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an intaglio in the British Museum.
A crayon-like design in intaglio would have a greater strength in the dark parts and greater delicacy in the lighter; be more durable and more easily corrected.
How to do this has been explained in the descriptions of relief and intaglio methods.
But though in part it is harder, on the whole it is much more porous and not so finely grained as the Solenhofen stone, and therefore not at all available for the intaglio method.
Here we have an intaglio design which is prepared and prints white.
There are bronze hatchets from Italy, with Swastikas in intaglio and in relief, in Musee St. Germain.
Cinerary urn with Swastikas inclosed in incised lines in intaglio (panels).
Max Ohnefalsch-Richter says:[191] The Swastika makes absolute default in Cyprus during all the age of bronze and in all its separate divisions according as the vases were decorated with intaglio or relief, or were painted.
There is a peculiar kind of intagliocarving which may be called Egyptian, because the ancient Egyptians used it very extensively on their monuments.
The principle, as I have shown, is quite applicable to ornament, and requires much less labour than even intaglio carving.
If you carve in hard wood, you can always use a piece of sunk or intaglio carving for a mould.
This is important, for the real excellence of intaglio carving consists in its being exactly like relief carving reversed.
For many years, however, progress in processes for intaglio printing was very slow.
The Christ, and the Evangelists, all carry books, of which each has a mosaic, or intaglio ornament, in the shape of a cross.
An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.
He at once carried theintaglio to an expert at the Metropolitan Museum, and when he was told that it represented Cupid feeding a fire upon an altar, he reserved a state-room on the first steamer bound for the Mediterranean.
English rings of the sixteenth century have a death's head carved inintaglio on carnelian, or sunk in the metal of the ring and sometimes filled with enamel.
A cylinder found in the ruins of Sennacherib's palace at Koyunjik, which is believed with reason to have been his signet, is scarcely surpassed in delicacy of execution by any intaglio of the Greeks.
The intaglio is not very deep but all the details are beautifully sharp and distinct, while they are on so small a scale that it requires a magnifying glass to distinguish them.
In the hollow of his left hand, Tiberius held the same intaglio which Fabricius had shown to Martialis, in the tavern under the Aventine.
It was an intaglio on cornelian, the likeness of a woman's face, graved with an exquisite art unapproached in modern times.
Oddly enough, we find Waters sealing, with this very intaglio of the Prince, a letter to Edgar, in 1750.
I have never seen a copy of this bust, and the medal struck in 1750, an intaglio of the same date, and a very rare profile in the collection of the Duke of Atholl, give a similar idea of the Prince as he was at thirty.
With 18 Intaglio Plates and 24 Illustrations in the Text.
