But while some of them have been excellent of their kind, the process is of limited resource, and the best works in this manner do not compare with the masterpieces of line engraving.
Line Engraving, as implied by the term, is executed entirely in lines.
If it failed artistically to measure up to line engraving or to plank woodcut, this was not the fault of the process but of the popular reproductive ends which it almost invariably served.
This was not simply an ordinary line engraving printed in relief rather than in the usual way; the management of the lights shows that it was planned as a white-line engraving.
In line etching, as in line engraving, the great masters purposely exhibit the line and do not hide it under too much shading.
As there is line engraving, so there is line etching; but as the etching-needle is a freer instrument than the burin, the line has qualities which differ widely from those of the burin line.
Jackson used the line system as a means for creating forms in conjunction with tones; the Parisian woodcutters used it to imitate the delicate quality of line engraving.
Jackson was interested in broad effects even when leaning heavily on the delicate linear conventions of line engraving.
In 1761 he made a drawing of Salisbury Cathedral for Edward Eaton, “bookseller at Sarum,” for a line engravingdedicated by Eaton to the Lord Bishop of Winchester.
Thanks to the Master of 1466 and to Martin Schongauer, line engraving in Germany was marked by brilliant and unexpected advances, whilst wood engraving merely followed the humble traditions of early days.
Marc Antonio's death did not bring with it the ruin of line engraving in Italy.
These, with the insignificant attempts made by the Germans in 1479,[A] are the beginnings of the process of line engraving in the ornamentation of the Book.
The first manifestation of this new method of illustration was made at Florence, the home of line engraving, by Nicholas di Lorenzo in 1477, for the work of Antonio Bettini, of Siena, called El Monte Santo di Dio.
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.
Absolutely, an immense disadvantage,--a woodcut never can be so beautiful or good a thing as a painting, or line engraving.
Further, a line engraving takes a long time to make, and most publishers would certainly look at the expense.
Line engraving, by which is meant cutting lines into copper, steel, or other suitable material with a burin or graver, is a very ancient art.
The first pull is then taken as in a line engraving with a copper-plate press, and its appearance shows what corrections are necessary.
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