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Steel engraving

noun

An impression taken from an engraved steel plate.

Engraving on a steel plate.

The act of engraving on a steel plate.

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"Steel engraving" Quotes from Famous Books

... best furniture polish. It was a room that so long as Dr. Cheesman held the see of Silchester would be given over to the preliminary nervousness of the diocesan clergy, who would one after another look at that steel engraving of Jesus Christ preaching by the Sea of Galilee, and who when they had finished looking at that would look at those two oil paintings of still life, those rich and sombre accumulations of fish, fruit and game, that glowed upon ...

— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie

... half calf, five-seventy-five; full morocco, gilt edges, seven-fifty. Six hundred and seven illustrations on wood and steel. Three different engravings of Abraham alone. Four of Noah,—'Noah before the Flood,' 'Noah Building the Ark,' 'Noah Welcoming the Dove,' 'Noah on Ararat,' Steel engraving of Ezekiel's Wheel, explaining prophecy. Jonah under the ...

— Eli - First published in the "Century Magazine" • Heman White Chaplin

Words linked to "Steel engraving" : engraving, etching