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Handbook to the Department of prints and drawings in the British museum (1876)

British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings, Fagan, Louis, 1845-1903 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 19

An illustration from Handbook to the Department of prints and drawings in the British museum, 1876, leaf 19 — THE ART OF ENGRAVING. Early History. HE origin of the art of engraving is lost in the obscurity of remote antiquity, and its earliest records carry us back to an unknown period. The term engraving was then used, in its strict sense, to denote the operation of carving designs, more or less simple,…

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