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▪ I. intaglio, n.
(‖ inˈtaʎo, ɪnˈtæljəʊ)
Pl. intaglios (7 entaglos, 8 intaglio's), rarely intagli |inˈtalji|. Also 7–8 erron. intaglia; pl. -as.
[It., = engraving, engraved work, a carving (pl. intagli), f. intagliare to cut in, engrave: see intagliated.]
1. a. A figure or design incised or engraved; a cutting or engraving in stone or other hard material.
1644Evelyn Diary 1 Mar., A chaplet of admirable invention, the intaglias being all on fruit-stones. 1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 125 The cutt is certainly a very very ancient intaglia (as they use to call such cutts at Rome)..pronouncing it almost with a ll—intallia. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece ii. 202 Antient Entaglos or Figures, cut on several sorts of precious Stones. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 23 The Architrave..has many fine Intaglias. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 101 There is a profile there..an intaglio in the solid rock. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. xi. 105 All its reliefs and intaglios have electrotyped themselves in the medallions that hang round the walls of your memory's chamber.
fig. and transf.1686Plot Staffordsh. 192 The rilieve raies of one Trochite, always lying in the intagli or furrows between two protuberant raies of the other. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. viii. 24 Boccaccio's clear-cut intaglios from life and nature.
b. The process or art of carving or engraving in a hard material; incised carving as opposed to carving in relief; the condition or fact of being incised. Chiefly in phrase in intaglio, as opposed to in rilievo or in relief. Also fig.
1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 276 Another gem with the head of Edward VI. cameo on one side, and intaglia on the other. 1816J. Dallaway Stat. & Sculpt. Anc. v. 298 In every period of the Grecian celebrity the art of intaglio has been cultivated as a branch of sculpture. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxi. (1856) 166 It was startling to see the evidences of a travel nearly six years old, preserved in intaglio on a material so perishable. 1857Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 15 Bricks were impressed with a stamp on which hieroglyphics were cut in intaglio, so as to present them in relief on the surface of the brick. 1869Lubbock Preh. Times viii. 268 The animals..are represented, not in relief, but intaglio; not by a mound, but by an excavation.
fig.1813M. Edgeworth Patron. I. xvi. 269 A woman's accomplishments..ought to be..more in intaglio than in cameo.
2. a. Anything ornamented with incised work; esp. a precious stone having a figure or design cut on its surface, an incised gem. Opposed to cameo.
1654Evelyn Mem. 23 Oct., One of the rarest collections of achates, onyxes, and intaglios, that I had ever seene. 1704Addison Italy (1733) 179 We meet with the Figures..on Antique Intaglio's and Medals. 1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxiv. 5 The collection of..gems, both cameos and intaglios, is considerable. 1864C. W. King Gnostics 56 The Jasper..is..employed for the intagli connected with the Mithraic idea. 1872Huxley Physiol. x. 244 An intaglio, or medal on which the head is hollowed out.
b. A mould of something to be cast or struck in relief; a countersunk die.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 616 When the casts, or intaglios, are first taken from the mould, they are not very firm. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. I. ii. 49 The use of intaglios to make up ecclesiastical seals.
3. attrib. and Comb. intaglio cylinder, intaglio engraving, intaglio impression, intaglio method, intaglio principle, intaglio printer, intaglio process, intaglio type, intaglio work; intaglio print, an impression of a plate cut in intaglio; intaglio printing, the group of processes used to print intaglio plates; intaglio-rilevato [It., lit. raised or relieved intaglio] = cavo-rilievo.
1859Abridgments of Specifications relating to Printing (Patent Office) 354 The invention consists..in producing intaglio-graphic printing and other plates from forms of intaglio types by taking a casting in plaster of Paris, or other suitable material. a1877Knight Dict. Mech. II. 1192/1 Intaglio-type, a process..depending upon the production of a friable surface of oxide of zinc on a metallic plate under hydraulic pressure... At drying, the surface is brushed over,..leaving an intaglio impression. 1886R. A. M. Stevenson tr. Delaborde's Engraving iii. 55 It is his [sc. Finiguerra's] invention..of the art of printing intaglio engravings, or rather of the art of engraving itself, that has made him immortal. 1888C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 66 Intaglio, printing, such as from copper⁓plate—the reverse of ‘relief’ printing. 1914E. H. Richter Prints i. 8 The different intaglio processes produce their blacks in different ways. 1917E. Pound Lustra 181 Give up the intaglio method? 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §529 Intaglio printer..places metal intaglio cylinder in position in machine, sets roll of paper and adjusts machine for even printing. 1930D. Strang Printing of Etchings & Engravings 1 The term ‘etchings’ will often..be intended to include all the other processes which are commonly employed by the artist in the making of intaglio prints. 1933T. S. Barber in W. Atkins Art & Pract. Printing IV. i. 8 Printing was done by the intaglio method of inking and wiping. 1959Chambers's Encycl. V. 341/2 Intaglio work, when the design is cut into the block or plate. 1965Zigrosser & Gaehde Guide to Collecting Orig. Prints iv. 46 Intaglio Process... A general term descriptive of all techniques employing the intaglio principle of duplication, where the design is incised below the surface of the plate. 1967V. Strauss Printing Industry i. 28/1 Intaglio printing is the name of a process family comprising a variety of printing methods which all use printing-image carriers with the printing areas sunken, or embedded, in the depth of the carrier material. 1972W. Chamberlain Thames & Hudson Man. Etching & Engraving i. 11 In the context of intaglio printmaking, the term ‘etching’ normally refers to both the action of corroding lines, etc. into a metal plate with acid, and the inked, paper impression taken from the surface of the plate.
▪ II. intaglio, v.|ɪnˈtæljəʊ|
[f. prec.]
trans. To engrave with a sunk pattern or design; to represent or execute in intaglio.
1847Tait's Mag. XIV. 383 Vestiges of pre-Adamite existence found filagreed into fossils, or intaglioed in stones. 1854Badham Halieut. 234 Forms of various fossil fish..Niobe-like, converted into stone; or intaglioed in a calcareous matrix. 188.Art. Jrnl. VIII. 46 (Cent.) The device intaglioed upon it [a finger-ring] is supposed to be flowers bursting from the bud. |