Engraving

/ɛnɡɹˈe‍ɪvɪŋ/

/ɪnˈɡɹeɪvɪŋ/

Engraving

the art or process of carving an artistic shape or pattern on a hard material

an artistic work that is made by cutting or carving designs on a piece of hard material

a print made from an engraving

Examples

1. That day, a London newspaper published an engraving of Nightingale with her lamp.

2. There are thousands of Mayan stone engravings.

3. This is a famous engraving from Harper's Magazine about the Ku Klux Klan.

4. But Western realism was creeping into Japanese art nevertheless, largely due to European engravings smuggled in by Dutch traders.