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What is a wood engraving?

Wood Engraving

A relief print made from an image cut in an end block of wood (a cross-section of a tree). The artist cuts the design into the wood, so that the background portion of the image is what's inked and pressed onto the paper. Wood engravings generally are characterized as "white line on black" images. They can have much finer lines and details than can woodcuts or linocuts. The same tools are used in wood engraving as in other types of engraving.

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