Abstract: The story of Cincinnati's early engravers is not the story of one or two towering figures.  There is no single artist who dominates the scene, or, indeed, who made an enduring name for himself.  The story of engraving in early Cincinnati is the story of a great number of artists, artisans, and craftsmen, most of them identified by name only, and varied in their skills and proficiency, who supplied Cincinnati's wide-ranging graphic needs.  For fifty years, the first half on the nineteenth century, they provided an enormous quantity of illustrative material to a young, rapidly growing community, and by and large they did it well.  The engravers reviewed here were selected because they are representative, and because they are among the few who have left behind (in addition to their engravings) a handful of facts about their professional or personal lives.  The others remain, for now, simply names in city directories or signatures along the bottom of cuts, advertisements, and views.  In time, perhaps, more of them will achieve the recognition that is their due.