METAL CUT

an engraving on metal, usually lead or type metal, or a print made from such plates. The earliest example of metal cut is the 15th-century technique called dotted manner, or manire crible, from its characteristic use of dots to form the design. The English poet and artist William Blake (17571827) experimented with metal cuts, but the technique's greatest exponent was the Mexican engraver Jos Guadalupe Posada (18521913). As metal-cut prints are often indistinguishable from wood engravings, many wood engravers turned to work with type metal instead of wood.