wood engraving

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A variation of the woodcut method executed with a different tool (burin) and different wood (end grain), allowing for more detailed images.
Coordinate term: woodcut
Hypernym: relief printing

(countable) A print taken from such an engraving.

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His wood engraving Möbius Strip II (1963) depicts a chain of ants marching for ever around over what at any one place are the two opposite faces of the object—which are seen on inspection to be parts of the strip's single surface. Source: Internet

Schury, p. 91 The wood engraving technique did not allow for fine lines, which is why Busch's drawing, especially in his illustrated tales up to the mid-1870s, are boldly drawn, giving his work its particular characteristic. Source: Internet

These cards, slightly larger than today’s postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock. Source: Internet

Stereotype, a process invented in 1725, consisted of making a metal cast from a wood engraving, but Blake's innovation was, as described above, very different. Source: Internet

The low sex ratio is partly because of the large number of male migrants who come to the city to work. citation "Parsis of Bombay", a wood engraving, ca. 1878. Source: Internet

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