Example sentences for: engravings

How can you use “engravings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The first stone engravings found in the Canary Islands were discovered here in the 18th century, and the ten natural cave dwellings, with their magnificent rock engravings, were the home to the Benahoritas — the ancient settlers of Benahoare, the original aboriginal name for La Palma.

  • Evoking superbly an artistic and personal biography of the 20th-century master, the museum displays over 200 paintings, 158 sculptures, and hundreds of drawings, engravings, ceramics, and models for stage sets and costumes drawn from the artist’s personal collection.

  • The occasion was Cornell's discovery of a curious box by Max Ernst, La femme cent têtes , that consists of collages made out of snipped and pasted cuttings from 19 th century engravings, fitted wickedly together to form a semipornographic narrative.

  • ' In sermons, novels, political broadsheets, moralising treatises and popular engravings, the French were portrayed as mangy, corrupt, effeminate, ignorant, indolent, immoral and lecherous, as well as vain and superficial."

  • The drawings and prints to be found in the reunited Engravings Collection were recently transferred from the Altes Museum and Gemäldegalerie and range from 14th-century illuminated manuscripts to modern woodcuts by Erich Heckel and lithographs by Willem de Kooning.


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