Objekt 8610
GRAVIEREN
Description
In engraving a burin is used to remove surface material and create fine incisions in the metal. A whetstone is used to regularly sharpen the burin because the tool tends to blunt rapidly.
Object description
Three burins, cushion and whetstone
Engraved Baroque Medals
Medals on James I (1603–1625) of England
and on the Siege of Amsterdam 1650
Silver casting, engraved
Inv. 1915.331. Museum Faesch, 1996.186.