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Example sentences for "plate engraving"

  • Peter Martyr, with his tormentors; and then he made a copper-plate engraving of Saul seated with the young David playing in his presence.

  • The Prodigal Son" is another tender and exquisitely finished copper-plate engraving, in which the yearning and prayerful Prodigal, bearing the face of Duerer, is kneeling on bare knees by the trough at which a drove of swine are feeding.

  • In the same year he executed a copper-plate engraving of a skull emblazoned on an escutcheon, which is crowned by a winged helmet, and supported by a weird woman, over whose shoulder a satyr's face is peering.

  • Good transfers can be made also from a copper-plate engraving if the copper-plate impression is made with our acid-proof ink.

  • He is a mere compiler, who scarcely appears to have been able to distinguish a wood-cut from a copper-plate engraving.

  • Were the Romans truly the inventors of copper-plate engraving?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being allowed; confess that; cultivated plants; direct assault; double line; easily grown; free citizens; has nothing; length from; little farther; microscopic examination; mile further; much indebted; perfect system; plate armour; plate engraving; plate glass; plate number; plate printing; single acre; tableaux vivants; troops were; vulgarly called; whose word; would consent; young maiden