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RE: Thievery! - compositing old images into new ones
I scanned them from old books I got my hands on. The first one looked like an original print on a separate page, the second one like a reproduction, maybe a litho, not sure.
I thought the first one was an etching, but I take your word for its being an engraving 8-).
The techniques are very similar and the actual printing is the same, but engravings tend to be a bit more stiff in the expression as the cutting in a hard surface makes it harder to make quirky lines. So the horisontal lines in the sky is a sign that it is engraving. Engraving tend to be more planned with clever ways of crosshatching while etchings look very much like line-drawings and making them is just like drawing with a very thin line.
Rembrandt preferred the much more organic lines of etchings, while engravings where the preferred media for mass-produced images because the triangular cut were more durable than the square etched ones.