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Intaglio in art printing.

Intaglio is the term applied either to a method of engraving or to a gem engraved in that particular style. Etching is one of the chief forms, and in it the lines drawn by the artist upon the prepared surface are bitten by acid into the plate, and form hollows in its face. In photo-gravure and some of the allied mechanical processes so greatly used for reproducing pictures and drawings, an intaglio is produced by photographic and scientific means in a metal plate, from which impressions are printed. In a stricter sense, an intaglio is a gem, usually of onyx or some other variety of chalcedony quartz, in which a design has been hollowed out, so that, when the gem is pressed upon any soft material such as was, it gives an impression in relief of the nature of a cameo. Intaglio gems are of very ancient origin, and fine examples are highly esteemed as works of art. In Egypt and early Greece and Etruria they were either of scarab or seal form; while in Babylonia and Assyria they took the form of cylinders round which the subject was engraved, the impression being obtained by rolling the cylinder over the surface to be impressed.

Intaglio in art printing: Intaglio: Assyrian Cylinder, and Impression.

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