A person who carves, cuts, or etches designs onto hard materials like metal, wood, or glass.
From engrave + -er (suffix denoting a person who performs an action). Engravers were highly skilled craftspeople, especially valued during the Renaissance and Age of Exploration for creating maps, currency, and artwork.
Before photography existed, master engravers were like the photographers of their day—their painstaking work reproduced paintings and created intricate details, and the best engravers were often celebrities with their own studios and apprentices.
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