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  • The engraver's tools make beautiful striations and cross-hatchings on foliage and on birds' wings and rictal bristles, feathers fine as whiskers, that watercolor alone can never produce.

    The Joys of Slow Looking Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • (F) Little-known fact: the fragment of poetry on the Statue of Liberty ("Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," etc.) does not, because of a French engraver's error, include Emma Lazarus rarely cited footnote: "No Mexicans, please."

    Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: 'Illegals' Love Wrought Iron Fences? Gustavo Arellano 2011

  • Some additional graphic design work today for an old friend who wanted to update his classic "engraver's" look - something he's had for years.

    January 2010 2010

  • Some readers may become jaded by the surfeit of detail -- we learn, for instance, that the "Gray's Anatomy" engraver's address was 356 Strand in London ( "beneath the sixth and seventh windows" of the "Pepperpot" building).

    Dissecting an Unheralded Alliance Mark F. Teaford 2009

  • A Row of X's Not all the gaffes were the engraver's fault.

    The Stanley Cup Could Use an Editor 2009

  • He was quick to see the value of prints as self-promotion -- advertisements for his talents, by disseminating his art to a wide audience -- so that the accurately rendered topographical "Chepstow Castle" (the picture in this show made when he was 18), was already the engraver's model for the second print to be made after his work.

    At Courtauld Gallery, More Turner Mastery 2008

  • Hayter inspired his students with a great respect for the engraver's tradition and initiated many technical experiments.

    Francisco Toledo 2006

  • Hayter inspired his students with a great respect for the engraver's tradition and initiated many technical experiments.

    Francisco Toledo 2006

  • Ploughlines cut into the metal of the engraver's plate.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Ploughlines cut into the metal of the engraver's plate.

    Two England-Wales poems Adam Roberts Project 2007

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