glyptic

Sculpture in stone, whether granite, gem, or marble, while we accurately use the general term 'glyptic' for it, may be thought of with, perhaps, the most clear force under the English word 'engraving.'

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

Sculpture in stone, whether granite, gem, or marble, while we accurately use the general term "glyptic" for it, may be thought of with, perhaps, the most clear force under the English word "engraving."

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

(Even in a lull, with only one drink to mix, he will not slacken his pace nor take a glyptic approach.)

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

Into the dossier it goes, and eventually the Firm, in Their tireless search for negotiable skills, will summon him under Whitehall, to observe him in his trances across the blue baize fields and the terrible paper gaming, his eyes rolled back into his head reading old, glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Museum came from the same palace as this specimen, the carving of which is not excelled by any period of the ancient glyptic art.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various

The glyptic art of Greece had been paralleled hundreds of years before it was born.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

With us, wood has almost completely disappeared as a glyptic material.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

He would not confine it to glyptic art, nor indeed to art alone -- all the uses of life might be bettered by it.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

This preposterous effort of the glyptic art has the one merit of serving as a finger-board.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

The hieroglyphic characters were either engraved in relief, or sunk below the surface on the public monuments, and objects of hard materials suited for the glyptic art.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life