Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or process of printing color pictures from a series of stone or zinc plates by lithography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of producing colored lithographic pictures by the use of a number of prepared lithographic Stones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
lithography forprinting pictures incolour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun single- or multi-color lithography
Etymologies
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Examples
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Artists have added chromolithography and film to their palette: A muscular Hanuman beams like a Marvel Comic super hero, and Krishna and his adopted mother imitate the pose of a European Virgin and Child.
From Stillness, Cosmic Action Lee Lawrence 2011
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King of chromolithography was Welsh designer Owen Jones, who literally wrote the book.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Every year from 1850 the company sent their clients a beautifully designed, full-color, all-vegetable poster, produced by the latest chromolithography technique.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Every year from 1850 the company sent their clients a beautifully designed, full-color, all-vegetable poster, produced by the latest chromolithography technique.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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King of chromolithography was Welsh designer Owen Jones, who literally wrote the book.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Lithography became more readily available by the development of metal etching plates, notes Lawrence, and photo - and chromolithography were introduced as ways to illustrate plates in books and periodicals.
Wilbour's Legacy 2005
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Baxter, and finally to chromolithography, but it is not irrelevant.
John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen
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In about 1860, however, he was driven from the market by the rise of a cheaper medium, chromolithography, which was responsible in the next few decades for a universal outpouring of popular bathos.
John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen
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It has been employed by this artist for three months, and was found equally successful in oil or water colours, chromolithography, and even in making white impressions on a black ground.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Under this third generation, the different branches of the house were still further developed, chromolithography and other modern printing methods being added.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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