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Photogravure

noun

Printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods.

An intaglio print produced by gravure. Synonyms: gravure, heliogravure.

Using photography to produce a plate for printing. Synonym: rotogravure.

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"Photogravure" Quotes from Famous Books

... ladies, wild as to hair and vision, are sold in photogravure by countless thousands—to women. An attraction on the boards which is rumoured to be "so sad," leads woman to economise in the matter of roasts and desserts that she may go and enjoy an afternoon of misery. ...

— The Spinster Book • Myrtle Reed

... "The Good People of Palvez." Translated from the original Hungarian by W. B. Worswick. With Introduction by R. Nisbet Bain. A charming Photogravure Portrait of the ...

— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai

... this artist have been reproduced in engravings and etchings, and are well known in black and white. Her water-colors, too, have been published in photogravure. ...

— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement

... rose, and went out of the room. He returned almost immediately with a little roll of paper, which he handed to her. She unrolled it. It was a photogravure reproduction of ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... Recollections their unique importance and raciness. They provide "by far the most vivid picture of Scottish life and manners that has been given to the world since Scott's day." This edition has been equipped with a series of thirty-six portraits reproduced in photogravure of the chief personages who move in its pages. 612 pp. ...

— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton

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