steel engraving

"They have the look of old steel engravings," he said.

Steel engraving is still done today, but to a much lesser extent.

This element has been produced with the steel engraving technique.

Would anybody bother to make steel engravings that perfect just for stage money?

An old steel engraving was lifting off a page.

It was a steel engraving of an oval building with rectangular windows, and a small tower in front.

His paintings were the basis for steel engravings in many books (see bibliography).

Perkins made several important innovations in printing technology, including new steel engraving plates.

The elements may be classical - the sort of thing one might see in old steel engravings - but the feel is gothic.

The calendar, in a separate booklet, has quaint steel engravings above each month.

"A small black and white steel engraving that I saw in Manhattan recently was $50,000."

Steel engraving produced plates with shaper, harder, more distinct lines.

Fifty proofs of steel engravings and lithographs were scattered around, too.

More fluidity and finesse is evident in the mid-19th century steel engraving.

Steel engravings of unpleasant subjects hung crookedly on the walls with one or two good oil paintings.

Copies made from steel engravings were widely distributed.

He was surrounded by steel engravings, shelves of books, antique furnishings, and old pewter.

Oriental scenes look best in steel engravings.

Probably has duplicate sets of steel engravings, tuppence colored and a penny plain.

She was spare and perfect as a steel engraving, and as ageless.

Steel engraving is a technique for printing illustrations based on steel instead of copper.

A popular account, profusely illustrated with steel engravings.

Most of Doré's work was wood engraving and steel engraving.

It was cozy and comfortable, done in warm colors, a pleasing room except for one mawkish steel engraving.

Rosmäsler produced a steel engraving of the lighthouse (1835).