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2 unusual facts about engraving


Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers

In 1926 the Society's scope was extended to include sculptors and gravers and its name was changed by the Royal Command of King George V.

Simone Verovio

Simone Verovio (fl. 1575–1608) was a Dutch calligrapher, engraver, printer, and editor.


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1739 English cricket season

The earliest known cricket picture was first displayed this year, an engraving called The Game of Cricket by Hubert-François Gravelot (1699–1773).

All Religions are One

During Blake's training as a professional copy engraver with James Basire during the 1770s, the most common method of engraving was stippling, which was thought to give a more accurate impression of the original picture than the previously dominant method, line engraving.

Angie Lewin

Inspired by both the clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast and the Scottish Highlands, Lewin depicts these contrasting environments and their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage.

Arthur Pond

Pond was also a prolific etcher, and used various mixed processes of engraving by means of which he imitated or reproduced the works of masters such as Rembrandt, Raphael, Salvator Rosa, Parmigiano, Caravaggio, and the Poussins.

Augustin Heckel

His colour engraving of The Countess of Suffolk's House (1749) is held at Marble Hill House, Twickenham, London.

Bal des Quat'z'Arts

The event was organised by Henri Guillaume, Professor of Architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts for students of architecture, painting, sculpture and engraving.

Banks' Florilegium

Banks' Florilegium is a collection of copperplate engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander while they accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyage around the world between 1768 and 1771.

Bernardino Mei

The Italian painter and engraver Bernardino Mei (1612/15 – 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family.

Claude Du Bosc

In 1712, he came to England with Claude Dupuis to assist Nicholas Dorigny in engraving the cartoons of Raphael at Hampton Court, where he resided for some time, until the engravings were nearly completed.

Cristóbal Vela

Copy of an engraving by Hieronymus Wierix from Marten de Vos, from the monastery of San Jeronimo de Valparaiso, circa 1630

Danish Revue Museum

The logo was introduced by Bent From and is based on an engraving depicting the Italian Commedia dell'arte character Scaramouche.

Denbigh Hall railway station

Due to the temporary nature of the station, no images of it or records of its layout are known to exist, but a contemporary engraving by Thomas Roscoe shows a train on the bridge in its immediate vicinity.

Domenico Quaglio the Younger

He was taught perspective and scene-painting by his father, and engraving by Mettenleiter and Karl Hess.

Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter

At Vienna he illustrated books and made drawings, many of which were etched or engraved by Rahl and Leybold.

Eric Fitch Daglish

However, his Birds Of The British Isles (1948) was in colour with a total of 48 engravings, 25 in colour and the cover of the book had a coloured wood engraving of goldfinches.

Fanny Rabel

Rabel had her first exhibition of her work in 1945 with twenty four oils, thirteen drawings and eight engravings at the Liga Popular Israelita with Frida Kahlo writing the presentation.

Flammarion engraving

The Flammarion engraving was used as an illustration in C. G. Jung's Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1959), and in The Mathematical Experience (1981) by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh.

George Boba

George Boba, a painter and engraver of the 16th century, known by the name of Maître Georges, was a native of Rheims, and is said by Karel van Mander to have been a disciple of Frans Floris, and by others of Titian.

Henry Hoppner Meyer

On 25th August 1794 he was apprenticed to Benjamin Smith for seven years and ultimately trained in engraving techniques at the Royal Academy Schools under Francesco Bartolozzi.

Isaac Milles

These arms are visible on the engraving of Isaac Milles by George Vertue in the British Museum.

Johann Franz Ermels

Johann Franz Ermels (1641-1693), a German painter and engraver, a pupil of Holtzman, was born in Reilkirch.

Lodowicke Muggleton

From the engraving, a small oil painting was made by a Muggletonian, Richard Pickersgill (possibly related to Frederick Richard Pickersgill) in 1813.

Ludwig Hans Fischer

A pupil, at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, of Eduard von Lichtenfels in painting, of Louis Jacoby in engraving, and of William Unger in etching, he completed his studies traveling in Italy, Spain, North Africa, Egypt, and India, and afterwards settled in Vienna.

Luke Fildes

The engraving, entitled Houseless and Hungry, was seen by John Everett Millais who brought it to the attention of Charles Dickens, who was so impressed he immediately commissioned Fildes to illustrate The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Marcantonio Raimondi

His first dated engraving, Pyramus and Thisbe, comes from 1505, although a number of undated works come from the years before this.

Marn Grook

It is distinct from the indigenous ball game Woggabaliri which is believed to be the subject of William Blandowski's engraving "never let the ball hit the ground" (see picture on right).

Martin Schongauer

He may well have been trained by Master E. S.; A. Hyatt Mayor saw both their individual styles in different parts of a single engraving, and all the works with Schongauer's M†S monogram show a fully developed style.

Matthäus Seutter

Apparently uninspired by the beer business, Seutter left his apprenticeship and moved to Nuremberg where he apprenticed as an engraver under the tutelage of the prominent J. B. Homann.

Nirode Mazumdar

On a French government scholarship, he studied engraving in Paris at the academy of the French artist Andre Holland.

Otto von Guericke

He invented the first electrostatic generator, the "Elektrisiermaschine", of which a version is illustrated in the engraving by Hubert-François Gravelot, c.

Peter Daly

:For the U.S. Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, see Peter H. Daly.

Photochemical milling

Photoengraving, a process of engraving using photographic processing techniques

Pierce Tempest

It is said that he was a pupil and assistant of Wenceslaus Hollar, and some of the prints which bear his name as the publisher have been assumed to be his own work; but there is no actual evidence that he ever practised engraving.

Pierre Albuisson

He was quickly awarded with the French title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France in the differents arts of engraving on copper in 1979 and 1986 and on steel in 1986.

Quos ego

Depictions in art of Neptune threatening the winds include the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi and paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Simone Cantarini.

Richard Cosway

Maria was a composer, musician and authority on girls' education and was much admired by Thomas Jefferson, who wrote letters to her decrying her marriage to another man and kept an engraving made from one of Cosway's paintings of Maria at Monticello.

Right and Left

Its design recalls that of Japanese art, and the composition resembles that of a colored engraving by John James Audubon.

Rudolf Hell

He kept on working as an engineer and invented machines for electronically controlled engraving of printing plates and an electronic photo typesetting system called digiset marketed in the USA as VideoComp by RCA and later by III.

Samuel Rayner

His wife, Ann Rayner, was an engraver on Ashford Black Marble and six of their children went on to be professional artists.

Side carving

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the seal engraving art was commonly seen.

Spiro Mounds

The conch shells were fashioned into gorgets and drinking cups engraved with intricate designs representing costumed men, real and mythical animals, and geometric motifs, all of which had profound symbolic significance.

Tampion

Over time, tampions were embossed or engraved with the arms of the unit, and they became collector's items.

Thea Proctor

She taught Adrian Feint the techniques of woodblock-engraving 1926–28, and like her he produced covers for the Ure Smith magazine Home.

Thomas Bewick

Works using his wood engraving technique, for which he became well known, include the engravings for Oliver Goldsmith's Traveller and The Deserted Village, for Thomas Parnell's Hermit, and for William Somervile's Chase.

Timothy Stansfeld Engleheart

He engraved some of the plates in ‘The British Museum Marbles,’ but seems to have removed to Darmstadt, as there is a fine engraving by him of ‘Ecce Homo,’ after Guido Reni, executed at Darmstadt in 1840.

Val Lewton

Bedlam (1946) suggested by the eighth (and last) engraving in the series "A Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth

Varda

In the computer game NetHack, the player can ward off most monsters by engraving the name "Elbereth" into the ground.

Writing implement

Words and names are still commonly inscribed into commemorative objects, such as the engraved winners' names on the silver Stanley Cup or the Gettysburg Address carved into the stone wall of the Lincoln Memorial, but the requisite tools are not exclusively considered to be writing instruments.


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