Noun

A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.

* 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :

On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in intaglio the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife.

Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.

Noun

(wikipedia engraving) (en noun)

The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.

An engraved image.

* , chapter=10

, title= 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.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=Foreword 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.}}

(music)  The art of drawing music notation at high quality, see .