In some places wood-carving has been brought to considerable perfection; and native artists know how to engrave on metal both by etching and the burin.
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Mantegna has sometimes been credited with the important invention of engraving with the burin on copper.
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The artists tool, be it brush or burin.
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The design was engraved onto sheets of polished copper coated with wax, using a sharp, needle-like tool called a burin.