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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,More info:wiki

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From the professionalisation of wood engraving during the first half of the 19th century, the trade had virtually disappeared by the beginning of the 20th century.

Much has been written about pioneer wood engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) and his well-known former pupils such as William Harvey (1796-1866), John Jackson (1801-1848), and John Anderson (1775-1808), who travelled from Newcastle to London, Paris, Berlin and North America, establishing wood engraving as a highly skilled profession. However, the wood engravers of the generation following them worked increasingly for illustrated newspapers and magazines with uncompromising publication dates.