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.

The very first Rand McNally map, created using a new cost-saving wax engraving method, appeared in the December 1872 edition of its Railroad Guide.

Normally, copper or zinc plates are used, and the incisions are created by etching or engraving the image, but one may also use mezzotint.

A contemporary image of the playwright is the engraving in the posthumously-published First Folio of 1623, which was created by Martin Droeshout and was probably commissioned by Shakespeare's friends and family.

She was skilled in watercolor, she also knew engraving, designed cameos, and created objects of ivory and amber, which she often presented as gifts.

Later, Scotty created his " Scotty Custom Shop " where buyers could customize their putter by ordering a custom paint fill, engraving, shaft band and grip along with other options.

These works often used digital technology to revisit earlier imagery and themes ; for example, his Jacquard tapestry editions, created in collaboration with Donald Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA, were translated from digitally manipulated scans of small-scale paper collages, made in the 1990s from engraving illustrations from Bible stories.

His engraving " Slaget på Reden " ( The Battle of Copenhagen ) was created in 1801, and was based on a drawing by Christian August Lorentzen.

Normally, copper or zinc plates are used as a surface or matrix, and the incisions are created by etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint or mezzotint.

He created some of the best steel plates ( as noted from English Engravers ) for engraving, and started a printing business with engraver Gideon Fairman.

Goldberg continued line engraving and created a suite of engravings titled, " Spring ".

Apollo and Hyacinthus, 16th-century Italian engraving by Jacopo Caraglio

Constant pressure calorimeter, engraving made by madame Lavoisier for thermochemistry experiments

St. Christopher, engraving, 1521, by Albrecht Dürer

File: Hans von Gersdorff-amputation. jpg | A woodcut engraving in Feldbuch der Wundarzney ( 1519 ) by Hans von Gersdorff, showing how to perform removal of a leg.

19th-century engraving by Thomas Allom.

These cards, slightly larger than today ’ s postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.

1865 engraving by Gustave Doré

An engraving by David Roberts in 1839 also shows the same ladder in the same position.

Daniel Defoe in the pillory, 1862 line engraving by James Charles Armytage after Eyre Crowe ( painter ) | Eyre Crowe

David Brewster, an engraving by William Holl after a painting by Henry Raeburn

A typical custom-made encyclopedia engraving by Maurice Dessertenne for the Nouveau Larousse illustré ( France, 1898 – 1907 )

Drake's landing in California, engraving published 1590 by Theodor De Bry

Gibraltar antique engraving by Gabriel Bodenehr, c. 1704.

D. H. Friston's engraving of the original production of Trial by Jury

Huns in battle with the Alans, 1870s engraving after a drawing by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger | Johann Nepomuk Geiger ( 1805 – 1880 ).

' Emigrants Leave Ireland ', engraving by Henry Doyle ( 1827 – 1892 ), from Mary Frances Cusack's Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868

John Calvin at 53 years old in an engraving by René Boyvin

James Madison engraving by David Edwin from between 1809 and 1817

( A wood engraving made by Robert Bruce on 27 July 1866.

View of Maastricht, coloured engraving by Philippo Bellomonte, 1580 / 82