Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made or carried on in writing; written; literary; as, a pen-and-ink sketch; a pen-and-ink contest.
- Made or executed with pen and ink, as a drawing, outline, or map.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A drawing executed with pen and ink.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a drawing executed with pen and ink
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Examples
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It contains four maps and historical accounts as well as two "Charts of Biography," which graphically show a timeline of historic figures, and throughout the volume Sandys demonstrates his aptitude in history, geography, pen-and-ink drawing, and calligraphy.
Carolyn Vega: A Nine-Year-Old Cartographer and Historian Carolyn Vega 2011
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They're just intricate pen-and-ink drawings filled in with very, very light watercolors.
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Selected to present the unusual, as well as the iconic, the exhibition offers such surprises as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's delicately outlined, very young female nude and the caricaturist Honoré Daumier's bold mythological scene, plus engaging examples by less familiar figures, such as Corot's contemporary Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny's energetically hatched pen-and-ink landscape.
Drawn to Revolution Karen Wilkin 2011
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It contains four maps and historical accounts as well as two "Charts of Biography," which graphically show a timeline of historic figures, and throughout the volume Sandys demonstrates his aptitude in history, geography, pen-and-ink drawing, and calligraphy.
Carolyn Vega: A Nine-Year-Old Cartographer and Historian Carolyn Vega 2011
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It contains four maps and historical accounts as well as two "Charts of Biography," which graphically show a timeline of historic figures, and throughout the volume Sandys demonstrates his aptitude in history, geography, pen-and-ink drawing, and calligraphy.
Carolyn Vega: A Nine-Year-Old Cartographer and Historian Carolyn Vega 2011
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Artist Jack Davis 's gangly, googly-eyed pen-and-ink print creations are as much a part of postwar Americana as the Beach Boys on the radio or Coca-Cola in the fridge.
A Really Quick Draw on Pop Culture Bruce Bennett 2011
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My paintings were hung, the house was clean and I had fallen asleep content, once more surrounded by my favorite things, including my grandmother's wedding portrait, an antique sliver-hammered Virgin of Guadalupe and a pen-and-ink whimsical nude, purchased from an Arizona artist.
W. Hunter Roberts: Notes of an Ex-Pat, Epilogue: The First Year W. Hunter Roberts 2011
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Alternately carnal and demure, the handsome show is fleshed out with royal Sèvres porcelain; iridescent vases by Eva Zeisel; and a pen-and-ink drawing of Hercules by Théodore Géricault.
Soaring Forms and Mythology in the Flesh Lance Esplund 2011
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My paintings were hung, the house was clean and I had fallen asleep content, once more surrounded by my favorite things, including my grandmother's wedding portrait, an antique sliver-hammered Virgin of Guadalupe and a pen-and-ink whimsical nude, purchased from an Arizona artist.
W. Hunter Roberts: Notes of an Ex-Pat, Epilogue: The First Year W. Hunter Roberts 2011
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It contains four maps and historical accounts as well as two "Charts of Biography," which graphically show a timeline of historic figures, and throughout the volume Sandys demonstrates his aptitude in history, geography, pen-and-ink drawing, and calligraphy.
Carolyn Vega: A Nine-Year-Old Cartographer and Historian Carolyn Vega 2011
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