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the art of being permanently unable to take it back
means The process of cutting lines or designs into a hard surface like metal, wood, or stone, often to create an image that can be inked and printed.
from From the verb 'engrave,' built from the prefix 'en-' (to put into) plus 'grave' in its old sense of 'to carve or dig.' That 'grave' descends from Old English 'grafan,' to dig or scratch — the same deep root that gives us 'grave' the burial pit, a cousin in the family of cutting into hard ground. So to engrave has always meant to incise, to leave a mark that the surface keeps.
- old money
- Dürer made masterpieces from copper plates in the 1500s
- cash flow
- Every banknote is an engraving printed millions of times
- mirror world
- Letters and images must be cut backwards to print correctly
- deep cuts
- Engraved lines hold ink because they're carved below the surface
- diamond hard
- Hardened steel or stone gets engraved with diamond tips
gutenberg bible — johannes gutenberg's movable type engravings, mainz 1455, first major book printed in europe
rembrandt etchings — rembrandt van rijn created over 300 engraved and etched prints including 'christ healing the sick', 1649
hogarth's prints — william hogarth's satirical engraved series 'a rake's progress', 1735, depicting 18th century london