Olga Gustava Herlin was Sweden's first female engraver. She introduced new working methods and served for nearly 50 years at the Swedish Kingdom's general mapping service and its predecessors. She was the first woman to be elected to the Swedish Cartographic Society in 1920.

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto 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 glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called "engravings". Engraving is one of the oldest and most important techniques in printmaking. Wood engraving is a form of relief printing and is not covered in this article, same with rock engravings like petroglyphs.