Engraving is the earliest of the intaglio printmaking processes, in which an image is engraved directly onto a metal plate, usually made of copper. It is a highly skilled and painstaking technique. A sharp tool called a burin is held in the palm and driven forward with pressure by the forefinger, gouging out the metal in lines composed of v-shaped grooves. The copper residue from the incisions is wiped away and the surface thoroughly cleaned before the plate is inked and passed through the press.
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Stanley Anderson, Daisy and Her Foal, 1952View details
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Stanley Anderson, The Clothes Peg Maker, 1953View details
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Francesco Bartolozzi, The Singing Lesson, c.1751View details
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Nicolas Bonnart, l'Etat de la Mort, A Paris Chez N. Bonnart, rue St. Jacques, a l'Aigle, avec privil. [c.1700]View details
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Edward Calvert, The Bride, 1828View details
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Liza Campbell, A Blissful Succession of Ordinary DaysView details
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Liza Campbell, Here’s to 1000 years of Farting AboutView details
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Liza Campbell, I Really Think This Eyeshadow Palette Is the One That’s Going To Turn All Around for MeView details
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Liza Campbell, If You Can’t Trust a Guy You Just Met, Who Can You TrustView details
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Liza Campbell, If You’re Going to be Like That I’ll Just Go and Die by the BinsView details
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Liza Campbell, She Has Vices I AdmireView details
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Liza Campbell, Sixty-Three Years on Bob Was Still SeethingView details
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Liza Campbell, We Found Ourselves in a Free-Form Jazz SituationView details
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Philibert-Louis Debucourt, Le Menuet de la Mariée & La Noce au Chateau, 1786/1789View details
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Lucas and Johannes Van Doetecum, Grotesque Ornament, with Pergolas, Vulcan’s forge, Hercules, Venus and Cupid, 1557View details
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Pierre Filloeul, Le faiseur de chateaux de carte [The Maker of Card House], 1737View details
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Jake Garfield, The Print Workshop, 2024View details
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Brendan Hansbro ARE, Tate Britain, LondonView details
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Brendan Hansbro ARE, Tower Bridge, LondonView details
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Hendrick Hondius, Post Funera, Vita, Hagae-Comitis. Ex Officina Henrici Hondii. Cum Privilegio [The Hague, c.1610]]View details
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Jean-François Janinet, Ière vue de Paris, prise du Pont Royal [1st view of Paris, taken from the Pont Royal], 1782View details
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Reginald Marsh, Tattoo-Shave-Haircut, 1932View details
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Lars Palm ARE, Arctic TernView details
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Lars Palm ARE, RegattaView details
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Gerard de Jode after Onuphrio Panvinio, Amplissimi ornatissimique triumphi, Romae, apud Jo: Jacobum de Rubeis ad Templum Sae. Mae. de Pace, cum Privil. Sum. Pont. et Sup. perm. [Rome, c.1650]View details
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Agnes Miller Parker, Here Rests His Head, 1939View details
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Wilhelm Unger, Portrait of the composer Hugo Wolf, 1890’sView details
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Cornelis van Dalen after Adriaen van de Venne, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. Mors Ultima Linea Rerum, Met Prevelege. [Amsterdam, c.1657]View details