lithography

[ li-thog-ruh-fee ]

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noun

the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
a similar process in which a substance other than stone, as aluminum or zinc, is used. Compare offset ( def 6 ).

lithography

/ lɪˈθɒɡrəfɪ /

a method of printing from a metal or stone surface on which the printing areas are not raised but made ink-receptive while the non-image areas are made ink-repellent

From the New Latin word lithographia, dating back to 1700–10. See litho-, -graphy

C18: from New Latin lithographia, from litho- + -graphy

Beautifully illustrated throughout, with colored frontispiece done in lithography.

Some artists experimented, but lithography did not pay while the anecdote in paint fetched a fortune.

Lithography, appropriated by commerce, was almost forgotten as a means of artistic expression.

And since then no incautious British artists or critics have dared to tamper with Senefelder's definition of lithography.

The colored plates are reproduced in the highest style of chromo-lithography from Mr. Thorburn's elaborate drawings.

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