wood engraving

English

Thomas Bewick, Barn Owl, 1847, wood engraving.

Noun

wood engraving (countable and uncountable, plural wood engravings)

1. A variation of the woodcut method executed with a different tool (burin) and different wood (end grain), allowing for more detailed images.

   Hypernym: relief printing

   Coordinate term: woodcut

2. (countable) A print taken from such an engraving.

Translations

detailed variation of woodcut

• French: gravure sur bois (fr) f, xylogravure (fr) f
• German: Holzstich (de) m, Holzriss m

Further reading

• wood engraving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia