Drypoint
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Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond. In principle, the method is practically id
Woman in Cafe, drypoint with burr by Lesser Ury
Surlingham Ferry - looking towards Norwich, drypoint with very rich burr by Edward Thomas Daniell
Mary Cassatt, Woman Bathing, drypoint combined with aquatint, 1890–01
Pablo Picasso, 1909, Two Nude Figures (Deux figures nues), steel-faced drypoint on Arches laid paper, 13 x 11 cm, printed by Delâtre, Paris, published by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
Engraving
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Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or
Drypoint
…image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond. In principle, the method is practically identical to engraving. The difference is in the use of tools, and that the raised ridge along the furrow is not scraped or filed away as in engraving. Traditionally the plate…
St. Jerome in His Study (1514), engraving by Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer
Artist and engraver Chaim Goldberg at work
An assortment of hand engraving tools
Stone engraving