Wood Engraving Definition

noun

Woodcut: a wood engraving is often distinguished from a woodcut in that the former uses a block of wood cut across the grain and the latter a block of wood cut along the grain.

Webster's New World
The art or process of engraving on wood.
Webster's New World
A print made from a wood engraving.
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Wood Engraving Sentence Examples

  • All are illustrated, and three in particular, the Century, Scribner's and Harper's, carried the art of wood-engraving to a high"standard of excellence.

  • Popular serials date from the Skilling Magazin (1835), which first introduced wood-engraving.

  • He also made great progress in the art of wood-engraving, and with the money he received for a series of blocks Lfor a work called Walks about Dorchester, he printed and published his first book, Orra, a Lapland Tale, in 1822.

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