Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A print produced by lithography.
  • transitive verb To produce by lithography.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To reproduce by means of lithography: as, to lithograph a picture.
  • To practise lithography.
  • noun A print executed by lithography.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A print made by lithography.
  • transitive verb To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A printed image produced by lithography; an image produced by etching the image onto a flat surface, then copying the etched surface by applying ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.
  • verb To create a copy of an image through lithography.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a print produced by lithography
  • verb make by lithography
  • noun duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from lithography.]

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Examples

  • Catlin's sketches, also in lithograph, are in the Minneapolis Public Library.

    Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden 1917

  • Created by ‘Verse historian and QMx artisan Ben Mund, this 30” x 26.5” lithograph is printed on 100-pound, satin-finish paper and contains a complete topographical rendering of the infamous valley, including many landmarks and other details of historic importance dating back to 2506, just prior to the outbreak of hostilities that would become known as the Unification War.

    Cool Stuff: Firefly/Serenity Maps | /Film 2008

  • Mr. Chagoya, a professor of art and art history at Stanford University, told The Post that the lithograph was a commentary on revelations of child abuse by Catholic priests.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVE ITZKOFF 2010

  • A lithograph is a very high quality machine printed image made by using a 4 color separation process much like how the covers of any color magazine is printed.

    eBay Search: (Error) 2010

  • Mr. Chagoya, a professor of art and art history at Stanford University, told The Post that the lithograph was a commentary on revelations of child abuse by Catholic priests.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVE ITZKOFF 2010

  • There have been "Collection Domaine Picasso" prints selling like crazy over the last 5 years all over the internet including eBay, these are mostly giclee's (although occasionally called lithograph) which can easily be reproduced by anyone.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

  • Beneath the lithograph was the inscription: "The Reverend Father Dom Seraphitus, Mysticus Goriot, of the Regular Order of Clichy Friars, taken in by all those he has himself taken in, receives amidst his forced solitude the consolations of Sancta Seraphita (/Scenes of the Hidden Life, sequel to those of

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • A larger version of LeWitt's 1992 untitled lithograph (left) is available here, while a larger version of his "Splotch #15″ (right) is available here.

    mental_floss Blog 2008

  • The scene evoked a 19th-century lithograph of Jaffa, in Palestine, or Tyre, in Lebanon, by David Roberts: dhows emerging out of the white, watery miasma, laden with silvery fish and manned by fishermen dressed in filthy turbans and shalwar kameezes, prayer beads dripping out of their pockets.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • Until 1990, the Norwegian diplomas were created according to the same principles: During 1901-1969, a lithograph by Gerhard Munthe and during 1970-1990 a lithograph by

    The Nobel Prize Diplomas 2010

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