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drypoint
Wiktionary
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 countable English) A print made using this technique.
Wikipedia
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 are also commonly used. 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.
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.