In the extant copy of the collection, each piece is accompanied by a small engraving depicting the mystery it portrays, while the image ( an ink drawing ) preceding the passacaglia depicts a guardian angel with a child.

An engraving by Israhel van Meckenem of the Mass of Saint Gregory contained a " bootlegged " indulgence of 20, 000 years ; one of the copies of this plate ( not the one illustrated, but also from the 1490s ) was altered in a later state to increase it to 45, 000 years.

Valid ( BM & F Bovespa: VLID3 ) is a Brazilian engraving company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro that provides security printing services to financial institutions, telecommunication companies, state governments, and public agencies in Brazil, Argentina, and Spain.

A dressing room on the first floor contains an etched engraving in the leaded glass signed and dated Robert Fox, Jane Hardy 1673 They were imprisoned in the room for 2 weeks Robert Fox was a gentleman in waiting to Charles 11.

A hand-built gun from H & H can cost around for a shotgun and close to for some rifles, with prices roughly doubling with luxury engraving, and there is a waiting period of 2 – 3 years between ordering and delivery.

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

Some have survived and others may be deduced from accurate landscapes of real places in his later work, for example his engraving Nemesis.

His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse is dated 1498, as is his engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon.

This also eliminated the need for engraving, which further shortened the time it takes to make and reproduce maps.

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.

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

The Kiffians were responsible for a life-size rock engraving of two giraffes that has been called the " world's largest rock art petroglyph ".

Common types of matrices include: plates of metal, usually copper or zinc for engraving or etching ; stone, used for lithography ; blocks of wood for woodcuts, linoleum for linocuts and fabric plates for screen-printing.

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

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.

Dante speaks to Pope Nicholas III, committed to the Hell | Inferno for his simony, in Gustave Doré's wood engraving, 1861.

At the Austrian Court in Vienna in the late 17th century ( 1698 ) ladies were conducted around the room to the tune of a 2-beat measure, which then became the 3 / 4 of the Nach Tanz ( After Dance ), upon which couples got into the position for the Weller and waltzed around the room with gliding steps as in an engraving of the Wirtschaft ( Inn Festival ) given for Peter the Great.

From this point on, Wagner finished each act and sent it off for engraving before he started on the next-a remarkable feat given the unprecedented length and complexity of the score.

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

As an intaglio method of printmaking, it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains in wide use today.

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.

Like etching, drypoint is easier for an artist trained in drawing to master than engraving, as the technique of using the needle is closer to using a pencil than the engraver's burin.

Common types of matrices include: metal plates, usually copper or zinc, or polymer plates for engraving or etching ; stone, aluminum, or polymer for lithography ; blocks of wood for woodcuts and wood engravings ; and linoleum for linocuts.

Where he learnt engraving is unknown, but he took advantage of the works of Marcantonio Raimondi, whose motifs are reworked in Lucas ' engravings and paintings, and became highly skilled in that art at a very early age: the earliest known print by him ( Mohammed and the Murdered Monk ) dates from 1508, when he was perhaps only 14, yet reveals no trace of immaturity in inspiration or technique.

* " The Prayer at Valley Forge " Copy of engraving by John C. McRae after Henry Brueckner, published 1866, the inspiration for the VFMAC rank insignia design

Legend has it that Dauberval found his inspiration for La Fille mal gardée while in a Bordeaux print shop, where he viewed an engraving of Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's painting Le reprimande / Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère.

NHL executives, via the Hockey Hall of Fame, had the engraver strike out the name of the senior Pocklington by engraving a series of Xs over his name.

Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass, are sometimes considered in modern terms to be minor forms of Roman art, although this would not necessarily have been the case for contemporaries.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

Its original appearance is shown in an engraving published in the `` Massachusetts Magazine '' in May 1793, which is reproduced herewith ( Fig. 1 ).

The reverse of the seal ( device ) | seal of Alexander I, enhanced as a 19th century steel engraving.

Alexander the warrior and knight: the reverse side of Alexander II's Great Seal, enhanced as a 19th century steel engraving.

Marcantonio Raimondi engraving: 15th cent.

Melencolia I ( 1514 ), engraving.

A series of extant drawings show Dürer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve ( 1504 ), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.

This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.

St. Christopher, engraving, 1521, by Albrecht Dürer

For example, his engraving of The Last Supper of 1523 has often been understood to have an evangelical theme, focussing as it does on Christ espousing the Gospel, as well the inclusion of the Eucharistic cup, an expression of Protestant utraquism, although this interpretation has been questioned.

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.

His work in engraving seems to have had an intimidating effect upon his German successors, the " Little Masters " who attempted few large engravings but continued Dürer's themes in small, rather cramped compositions.

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.

He often combined etching and engraving techniques in a single plate, and produced about 122 intaglio prints altogether.

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

The observatory of Anders Celsius, from a contemporary engraving.

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.

This copper-plate engraving from 1795 is the first known image of Brown.

Bernardino Ochino in an old engraving.