Meanings of old engraving in English

Figure 63 represents an old engraving showing the birth of Eve.

With another 'Esther' I have been familiar from childhood by an old engraving.

They had the simplicity and the precision of houses in a very old engraving.

The gilt frame of a blurred old engraving on the wall caught a little light.

I do not know why an old engraving in my father's study crossed my mind.

Durtal loved this old engraving.

Above it, in an elaborate gilded frame, was an old engraving of such uncanny relevance that it took Morgan's breath away.

From an old engraving]

I think we may trace these associations in many examples, particularly in a Deposition by Raphael, of which there is a fine old engraving.

In the original picture, St John with his cross is standing- aboyat the Virgin's knee, but he is absent from the old engraving.

The plaster joints of the walls and the dark net of earth between the cobbles showed thick and clear as in a very old engraving.

In it was an old engraving (from a painting by Giulio Clovio) of the moon, in which Dante is walking with his companion.

There are bursts of sunlight, the rays reminding you of an old engraving; these shafts of drawn light are set among boiling clouds and apparitions.

This shop had as decoration an old engraving of a fashion-plate stuck against a windowpane and the wax bust of a woman with yellow hair.

She had sent photographs of Stornham, of Dunholm Castle, and of Dole, and had even found an old engraving of Lady Alanby in her youth.

Have you ever looked at those old engravings of torture instruments?