' Victors of the Nile ', a celebratory engraving published five years after the Battle of the Nile, depicting Nelson and his 15 captains.

Battle of Saint Kitts, 1782, as described by an observer in a French engraving titled " Attaque de Brimstomhill ".

Battle of St. Kitts, 1782, as described by an observer in a French engraving titled " Attaque de Brimstomhill ".

The Battle of Ostia in an 1829 engraving.

Battle of Crécy ( 19th-century engraving )

A 17th-century Dutch engraving representing the Battle of Azov ( 1696 )

19th-century engraving of the death of Major-General Braddock at the Battle of the Monongahela.

George Washington at the Battle of Trenton engraving by the Illman Brothers in 1870

He only produced one surviving engraving, the Battle of the Nude Men, but both in its size and sophistication this took the Italian print to new levels, and remains one of the most famous prints of the Renaissance.

The Battle of Prague in Bohemia, May 6 ,, 1757, English 18th century copper engraving

Krunert ( a Viennese ), like Gottstein an exile in London, was given the job of engraving for ‘ The Battle of Quebec ’.

Battle of Saint Kitts, 1782, as described by an observer in a French engraving titled " Attaque de Brimstomhill ".

* Battle of the Nudes ( engraving ), a 15th century artwork by Italian sculptor Antonio Del Pollaivolo

This engraving was sold in London after Hendrick's death in the Battle of Lake George.

The Battle in an engraving of the era.

* The Battle of Chocim-A copperplate engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe at the Wilanów Palace Museum

Niebuhr's first book, Beschreibung von Arabien, was published in Copenhagen in 1772, the Danish government providing subsidies for the engraving and printing of its numerous illustrations.

The first Christiansborg Palace, line engraving | engraved illustration in Lauritz de Thurah s Den Danske Vitruvius from 1746However, just two years after the rebuilding was completed, the Copenhagen Castle was demolished in 1731 to give room for three consecutive Christiansborg Palaces, the two first of which were destroyed by fires ( in 1794 and 1884 ).

The delaying of the engraving of St Philip, completed in 1523 but not distributed until 1526, may have been due to Dürer's uneasiness with images of Saints ; even if Dürer was not an iconoclast, in his last years he evaluated and questioned the role of art in religion.

Albrecht's brother, Erhard Altdorfer, was also a painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving, and a pupil of Lucas Cranach the Elder.

One of many artistic depictions of Saint Anthony's trials in the desert, this painting was copied by the young Michelangelo after an engraving by Martin Schongauer

In 1960 the Ishango bone tool was discovered, fashioned from the fibula of a baboon with a sharp piece of quartz affixed to one end, perhaps for engraving.

The painting was later destroyed by Le Peletier's royalist daughter, and is known by only a drawing, an engraving, and contemporary accounts.

At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a goldsmith, but soon after travelled to Rome where he learned engraving from an expatriate Frenchman, Philippe Thomassin.

As a subject for easel paintings, it was more common in Northern Europe, although Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving of ca.

Michael Neill, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition, notes that the earliest critical references to Othello's colour, ( Thomas Rymer's 1693 critique of the play, and the 1709 engraving in Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare ), assume him to be Sub-Saharan, while the earliest known North African interpretation was not until Edmund Kean's production of 1814.

The plate was exposed under an ordinary engraving and copied it by photographic means.

Edison's method was to indent the sound waves on a piece of tin-foil, while Bell and Tainter's invention called for cutting, or " engraving ", the sound waves into a wax record with a sharp recording stylus.

On the front page of the first issue was the engraving of " Improved Rail-Road Cars ".

The engraving by William van der Gouwen shows a twenty meters ( 70 feet ) long whale, which in third February 1598 on the Dutch coast between Scheveningen and Katwijk was stranded.

Banks was responsible for selecting and arranging engraving of the illustrations in this official record.

The switch to copper plates was probably made in Italy, and thereafter etching soon came to challenge engraving as the most popular medium for artists in printmaking.

Its great advantage was that, unlike engraving which requires special skill in metalworking, etching is relatively easy to learn for an artist trained in drawing.

The process was developed in Germany in the 1430s from the engraving used by goldsmiths to decorate metalwork.

In the 20th century, true engraving was revived as a serious art form by artists including Stanley William Hayter whose Studio 17 in Paris became the magnet for such artists as the Japanese master Shoïchi Hasegawa.

Its great advantage was that, unlike engraving which requires special skill in metalworking, etching is relatively easy to learn for an artist trained in drawing.

The engraving was modeled after a photograph taken by Napoleon Sarony in 1888.

Although the latter was engraved by Revere and he included the inscription, " Engraved, Printed, & Sold by Paul Revere Boston ", it was modeled on a drawing by Henry Pelham, and Revere's engraving of the drawing was colored by a third man and printed by a fourth.

He was then able to apply the different coloured foils, each in turn, by using a dentist drill engraving technique: employing the spinning dentist drill burr clamped into the jaws backwards.

With practice, taping down the metallic foil to the receiving surface, he was able to spin the drill and thus create the heat necessary to apply the coloured foil by a hand and machine-driven engraving technique.

Folklorists have suggested that the most popular legends about Whittington — that his fortunes were founded on the sale of his cat, who was sent on a merchant vessel to a rat-beset Eastern emperor — originated in a popular 17th-century engraving by Renold Elstracke in which his hand rested on a cat, but the picture only reflects a story already in wide circulation.