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Exploring Engraving Techniques and History

Test your knowledge of engraving techniques, historical figures, and their applications in art and industry.

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1 Patterns of dots were also used in a technique called stippling, first used around 1505 by ________.

2 Before the advent of photography, engraving was used to reproduce other forms of ________, for example paintings.

3 Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or ________.

4 ________ (1746-1828)

5 From this grew the engraving of copper printing plates to produce artistic images on paper, known as ________ in Germany in the 1430s.

6 The modern discipline of ________, as it is called in a metalworking context, survives largely in a few specialized fields.

7 Traditional engraving, by burin or with the use of machines, continues to be practiced by goldsmiths, glass engravers, ________ and others, while modern industrial techniques such as photoengraving and laser engraving have many important applications.

8 Another application of modern engraving is found in the ________ industry.

9 ________ (active c.1505-1515)

10 In most industrial uses like production of intaglio plates for commercial applications, hand engraving has been replaced with milling using CNC engraving or ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Master of Anthony of Burgundy was one of the Flemish miniature painters of the late 15th century, and may have made the first engravings for books.
  • the German Renaissance Little Masters specialized in very small engravings (example pictured), often treated erotically.
  • the Master of the Playing Cards (3 of Birds pictured) was a 15th century German engraver and the first major master in the history of printmaking.
  • the Van de Passe family engraved portraits of important people in Jacobean England including the Gunpowder Plotters (pictured) and Pocahontas.
  • the work of Martin Rota as engraver to the Imperial court in Vienna included a portrait of Emperor Maximilian II.
  • the English engraver John Boydell (pictured) founded the fashionable Shakespeare Gallery in London in 1786, but had to sell it in a lottery in 1804 after he was bankrupted by the Napoleonic Wars.
  • the engravings of French Renaissance artist Jean Duvet exhibit horror vacui, or a fear of leaving space unfilled.
  • the 1476 edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium by Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book with engraved illustrations.
  • Giulio Campagnola was the first engraver to use stippling in his works.
  • Samuel Pepys and Ferdinand Columbus each owned works by the anonymous engraver Master I. A. M. of Zwolle (example engraving pictured).
  • Jane Meutas (pictured) was drawn by Holbein and engraved by Bartolozzi.
  • Knight, Death and the Devil is a large 1513 copperplate engraving, one of the three master prints by Albrecht Dürer.
  • of the fifty examples of Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Renaissance engraving Battle of the Nudes (pictured) known in modern times, sixteen are in the United States.
  • at least 10 members of the Sadeler family were active as engravers between 1572 and 1675.
  • Robert Nanteuil's engraving of Pompone de Bellièvre (pictured) was described as "the most beautiful engraved portrait that exists".
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