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.

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 points of the compass rose on the reverse are modeled with the central portion plain for engraving the name of the recipient.

However, Dürer's influence became less dominant after 1515, when Marcantonio perfected his new engraving style, which in turn traveled over the Alps to dominate Northern engraving also.

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

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

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

" Lithography, or printing from soft stone, largely took the place of engraving in the production of English commercial maps after about 1852.

An engraving of Robespierre guillotining the executioner after having guillotined everyone else in France

Elisabeth Pepys in a stipple engraving by James Thomson ( engraver ) | James Thomson, after a 1666 painting ( now destroyed ) by John Hayls.

A steel engraving of Sir William Jones, after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

File: Galatea ( engraving ). jpg | Galatea, engraving after the fresco in the Villa Farnesina

Partial view of an engraving by Pierre Charles Baquoy, after N. A. Monsiau.

It was a copper engraving made in 1778 by C. Conti after a drawing by Franz Xaver Baraga.

Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, 1598 – 1653, after an engraving by Jan Lievens.

The engraving, dating back to 1617, was executed by Georg Houfnagel after the painting of Egidius van der Rye ( the original was done in the workshop of Braun and Hagenberg ).

1733 copper engraving of the College, looking south, after the completion of John Robinson ( 1650-1723 ) | Bishop Robinson's and Provost Carter's buildings in Second quad

Antioch from the southwest ( engraving by William Miller ( engraver ) | William Miller after a drawing by H. Warren from a sketch by Captain Thomas Byam Martin | Byam Martin, R. N., 1866 )

Joseph Addison: engraving after the Kneller portrait

In 1803, music was added, and after 1804 there was a prix for engraving as well.

File: Dalziel Brothers after Edward Burne-Jones King Sigurd 1862. png | King Sigurd, woodcut engraving by the Dalziel Bros. after a pen-and-ink drawing, 1862