STEEL ENGRAVING • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Steel engraving

... conditions of his own country. The same characteristic appears also in most of his literary work, and in it there is no servile imitation; it is careful and studied selection, adaptation and combination. For example, the composition of a steel engraving in a French art journal suggested his model in clay of a Philippine wild boar; the head of the subject in a painting in the Luxembourg Gallery and the rest of a figure in an engraving in a newspaper are combined in a statuette he modeled in Brussels ...

— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig

... not afford oil paintings went in for steel engravings and chromos—good reliable brands, such as the steel engraving of Henry Clay's Farewell to the American Senate and the Teaching Baby to Waltz art chromo. War pictures were also very popular back in that period. If it were a Northern household you could be pretty sure of seeing ...

— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb