Modern engraving is like decorative decoy carving. It has so much detail that it is like a staged photo, beautiful but too good to be true. Every single engraved part is so filled with detail nothing is left to imagine. Where carved decoys and early engraving give more of a rough sense what things were but require a bit of filling in the dots. At least these engravings are not pornographic like a Pgun I saw a couple years ago. That had so much detail you needed to put a skirt on it.