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Definition of Intaglios
1. intaglio [n] - See also: intaglio
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intaglios
Literary usage of Intaglios
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Desert Dancing: Exploring the Land, the People, the Legends of the by Len Wilcox (2000)
"To see the intaglios we'd have to be in an airplane well above the desert sand.
... The intaglios are figures made by Native Americans perhaps as much as ..."
2. History of Art in Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1894)
"First we will consider the origin and material in which the intaglios are cut,
and follow this up with some general observations ; we shall next endeavour ..."
3. The Wedgwood Handbook: A Manual for Collectors : Treating of the Marks by Eliza Meteyard (1875)
"HE fabrication of intaglios, principally as seals, occupied Wedgwood's attention
from an early date. They progressed like the vases, from the black to the ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1892)
"intaglios.—The Numismatic Society of New York, Mr. Herbert Valentine, ... has had
recently on exhibition two beautiful intaglios—one of the"Venus ..."
5. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"Had we lived longer, life had such for sale, With the last coin of sorrow purchased
cheap, Bat now we stand before thy shadowy pale, intaglios TENNESSEE IN ..."
6. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... for five intaglios, the large Silver Medal. 54. To Mr. A. Harrison,
Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place, for a Parallel Ruler, the smaller, or Isis, ..."
7. A Popular Handbook to the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum by Edward Tyas Cook (1903)
"This is frequently the case even with large sculpture in marble ; in the case of
work so minute, and in a measure so mechanical, as that of intaglios, ..."
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