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Engraving and Engravings

Practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it

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Images from the collections

Images of Engraving and Engravings

12,713 images from works
  • The risen Christ shares supper with two men at Emmaus. Engraving.
  • A bird: a dipper. Coloured engraving.
  • A magpie from New Caledonia. Engraving by Bawtree after J. B. Audebert.
  • Pontius Pilate comes out to the people, asks what is the accusation against Christ, and tells the Jews to judge him by their own laws. Engraving after J. Stella.
  • Electricity: an electrometer attached to an electro-static generator. Engraving, 1769.
  • Bleaching: racks and cauldrons for drying bleached cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • Hippocrates. Line engraving.
  • Queen's College, Cambridge: from the river. Line engraving by Elizabeth Byrne, 1810, after R.B. Harraden.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats, including the paddle steamer "Diamond" heading downriver, in the foreground. Engraving by J. Watkins, 1843.
  • Richard Mead. Line engraving, 1755, after L. F. Roubiliac.

Images about Engraving and Engravings

3 images from works
  • Portrait of William Harvey [1578 - 1657], surgeon
  • Sethus Calvisius [Kallwitz]. Line
  • The British gallery of contemporary portraits, being a series of engravings of the most eminent persons now living or lately deceased, in Great Britain and Ireland / from drawings accurately made from life, or from the most approved original pictures. Accompanied by short biographical notices.

Works from the collections

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Works using this type/technique
Works about this type/technique
Works about this type/technique

14,224 works

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    The Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury. Line engraving by Lester, 1810, after R. Dighton.

    Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814. | Date: June 1810 | Reference: 16411i
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    Surveying: a surveyor's level, disassembled (above) and assembled (below). Engraving by H. Mutlow, 1810.

    | Date: Sept.r 1st 1810 | Reference: 46698i
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    Conrad Gesner. Line engraving, 1666.

    | Date: 1666 | Reference: 3557i
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    The sea at Marseilles: fishermen near a jetty and a round tower. Engraving by J. Aliamet after C.J. Vernet.

    Vernet, Joseph, 1714-1789. | Date: [1776?] | Reference: 2498935i
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    Saint Thomas of Villanova performs a posthumous miracle: he cures a woman who was about to die. Engraving.

    | Reference: 39101i

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