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Steel needle for engraving
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drypoint
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) A technique of intaglio printmaking in which an image is incised into a plate by scratching the surface with a hard, sharp metal (or diamond) point. 2 (context countable English) The needle used in this technique. 3 (context ...
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Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper , but now acetate , zinc , or plexiglas ...
Usage examples of drypoint.
I sketched as fast as the musket ball would allow, wishing I had a copper plate and a drypoint for my work instead of this flapping, unsupported paper.
Without wax and acid, a copper block is a more or less useless thing for etching but there was always drypoint, my first love, and he had a drypoint needle he could sell me.
But it seems to me that in these days we have a tendency to confuse the arts, and forget that the novelist's business is rather to weave a plot and edify his readers than to fiddle away at producing a frontispiece or tailpiece in drypoint.