Engraving vs Woodcut - What's the difference?
engraving | woodcut |
The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
An engraved image.
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A print or a method of printmaking from an engraved block of wood.
As nouns the difference between engraving and woodcut
is that engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it while woodcut is a print or a method of printmaking from an engraved block of wood.As a verb engraving
is present participle of lang=en.engraving
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(wikipedia engraving) (en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
