(1) By manipulating the plate with his left hand in harmony with the motions of the burin , the engraver can facilitate the direction of the lines, as well as steadying the plate.(2) An engraving is made by cutting lines in a metal plate with a sharp tool called a burin .(3) A fine burin was used to engrave the music on a copper plate, which was then etched with acid.(4) These tools can be made on spans derived from burin blows or may occur on the ends of complete blades or blade segments.(5) He wields the knife much as the engraver guides his burin over the plate… Marsyas is… a martyr for art.(6) In the first section of this two-part exhibition, Brown's blunt strokes of dark pastel bristle at the edges of latent, embryonic forms and sweep across fields of grid-marked linen with the repetitive insistence of a burin cutting metal.(7) The beryl crystals were presumably cut out of this rock with a sharp-pointed metal tool, perhaps an iron blade or burin .(8) Ravilious was an engraver; it is no wonder his brush takes on the character of a burin , or that he describes volumes with rows of parallel lines as engravers do.(9) Lines are cut into a metal plate using a tool called burin or graver.(10) The knife or burin tells it where to go, and the same artist's drawings and prints can look quite different - the drawings freer, more timid, more shaky.(11) When Bellori chose portraits for his Lives, by a still unidentified artist, he or his amanuensis decided to include such props as a book for Nicolas Poussin and a burin for Agostino Carracci.(12) This is clear as soon as we reach the second chapter, in which the contrast drawn between lithography and fine burin engraving exposes aesthetic mythologies specific to each.(13) Reproductive photography of this sort remains bound to its function as the artist's record, as the engraver's aide-memoire, and as the low-quality alternative to the burin .(14) At times the essays appear to have been written with a burin .(15) Stone tools include delicately made blades, microburins, burins , scrapers, and adzes.(16) Examples of some of the tools he used, such as brushes, pens, chalks, inks, needles, burins and handmade papers, will be on view.
