Engravings (Genre/Form Term)

Art & architecture thesaurus online, August 14, 2016 (engravings (prints); note: Prints on paper incorporating impressions of a reverse design created on a printing plate, usually copper, into which the design has been incised (engraved) using burins or gravers. Historically, "engravings" has sometimes been incorrectly used to refer to all prints, regardless of the specific technique. For prints made from designs engraved on a flat wooden block, use "wood cuts"; for prints made from a plate that is etched rather than engraved, use "etchings.")

LCSH, August 14, 2016 (Engraving; UF Copper engravings; Engravings [Former heading]; Line-engraving; Siderography; Steel-engraving; BT Graphic arts; Prints; RT Etching; NT Bamboo engraving; Cataloging of engravings; Color prints; Crayon engraving; Dotted prints (Engravings); Dry-point; Glass engraving; Glyptics; Graphotyping; Jewelry engraving; Jewish engraving; Mezzotint engraving; Monotype (Engraving); Niello; Photoengraving; Photogravure; Prints in paste; Rotogravures; Shell engraving; Stipple engraving; Wood-engraving)

Grove art online, Oxford art online, August 14, 2016 (Engraving: Technique of intaglio printmaking in which an image is cut with tools into a plate from which multiple impressions may be made; the term is also applied to the resulting print, which has characteristic lines created by the tools and techniques of cutting. The incised image, which lies below the plate's surface, is filled with ink, and then pressure is used to force the paper into the inked lines, creating a slightly raised three-dimensional line and an embossed platemark.)

Thesaurus for graphic materials, June 10, 2016 (Engravings; BT Intaglio prints; NT Steel engravings; Stipple engravings)

Benson, R. The printed picture, 2008: page 320 (engraving: the process of removing material from a printing surface (usually metal or wood) through the use of a burin. Engraved lines in an intaglio process hold ink, and print; in a relief process they create nonprinting areas)

Prints on paper that incorporate impressions that are created on a printing plate into which the design was incised.