An engraver uses a burin for her work. From LearnThat.org.
His splendid design, which shows considerable burin work, is at odds with the crudity of the remainder of the book. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
Passing from the bloom of Nature, we complete our circuit with that which springs from the pencil, the chisel and the burin. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
London in 1798, and, after a limited education, he began to learn the art of engraving; but his pen was more powerful than his burin. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The graving tool, or burin, was of critical importance, for it enabled people to cut strips of fresh reindeer antler to manufacture specialized tools. From Wordnik.com. [G. The Spread of Modern Humans in the Old World (100,000 to 12,000 Years Ago)] Reference
There too was the copper-worker with his burin and graver. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel] Reference
And Mary's cheeks was burin 'like the sunset down the lane. From Wordnik.com. [Riley Love-Lyrics] Reference
The thin silver plates, over which once passed the burin of Maso. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
Also, HDTV reviews reported that the HDTV has no burin-in or screen aging. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
I will not speak of his person as he has been sufficiently described by pen and burin. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680] Reference
Maurier's almost ruined by the slipping of the burin the one-thousandth part of an inch!. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914] Reference
All classes and conditions and all ages came within the range of his magic brush and burin. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation] Reference
This and later plates show the darks becoming less dramatic and the burin work more "open". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
It is but the expedient of those who cannot etch sensation by the burin of their art of words. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
The most famous masters of the burin engraved his works, which are: "Portrait of Cardinal Agucchi". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
He was an engraver of portraits, landscapes and architecture, and a clever manipulator of the burin. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Monks and Monasteries] Reference
Although his work with the burin was like that of the great Nanteuil, he attained a style of his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
But the burin was too slow, even in the hands of the skilful engraver, for the necessities of the hour. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914] Reference
Lucas of Leyden Raimondi also learned much; his burin gained in mellowness from engraving Perazzo's work. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
This work was afterwards destroyed by fire, but the composition has been preserved by the burin of Fontana. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)] Reference
In every spare moment he was busy with his pencil or burin, and he even engraved on the trees in the forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
And let these works suffice to prove that Lucas may be numbered among those who have handled the burin with ability. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi] Reference
The linear part of it requires exactly the same degree and the same kind of talent as linear design with a pen or with a burin. From Wordnik.com. [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference
He also engraved copper-plates with the burin, and he executed with aquafortis some very fanciful little stories of alchemy, in which. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi] Reference
And though he did not give sufficient practice to the burin to acquire real skill, still he did not remain satisfied till he could use it. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894] Reference
Kate needed little money; and the seer-husband's pencils and burin, or the private kindness so constantly shown him, provided daily bread. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
Besides, the baker had not been paid for four weeks, so, sighing heavily, he dragged himself to the workbench to move the burin with a weary hand. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
They flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and some of their productions rank among the finest examples of the art of the burin. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
On the death of his patron he returned to his family at Nancy, where, by the use of his burin and needle, he shortly acquired both wealth and fame. From Wordnik.com. [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference
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