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Lithography   /ləθˈɑgrəfi/   Listen
Lithography

noun
1.
A method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface.
2.
The act of making a lithographic print.



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"Lithography" Quotes from Famous Books



... Poetes (Geneva, 1847), gives an excellent criticism on Bonivard as author. For original materials consult (besides the work of Chaponniere) Galiffe: Materiaux pour l'Histoire de Geneve, and Cramer: Notes extraites des Registres du Consistoire, a rare book in lithography (Geneva, 1853). A weak little article in the Catholic World for September, 1876, bravely attacks Bonivard as "one of the Protestant models of virtue," and triumphantly proves him to have been far from perfect. The charge, however, that ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various

... Goettingen, 1864. She has been, in the main, her own instructor, living for some years in Rome for the purpose of study. In 1895 she settled in Berlin, where she has made a specialty of women's and children's portraits in olgraphy (?) and lithography. Beautiful drawings by her were exhibited at the International ...
— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement

... the volume of the Arts of the Middle Ages, engraving and chromo-lithography will come to our assistance by reproducing, by means of strict fac-similes, the rarest engravings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the most precious miniatures of the manuscripts preserved ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix

... planing-machine, and many other contrivances by which engines can be constructed with almost mathematical correctness. I have said nothing adequate about the railway system, or the electric telegraph, nor about the calculus, or lithography, the airpump, or the voltaic battery; the discovery of Uranus or Neptune, and more than a hundred asteroids; the relation of meteoric streams to comets; nothing of the expeditions by land and sea that have been sent forth by various governments for the determination ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper

... you just write your Autobiography, All fearless and personal, bitter and stinging? Sure that, with a few famous heads in lithography, Would bring me far more than my Songs ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron

... dreaded the inconveniences attending its use, and did not care to deprive a large body of scribes of their employment. They even used stereotypes, or immovable printing-types, to stamp impressions on their pottery, specimens of which still exist. In China the art of printing is of great antiquity. Lithography was well known in Germany, by the very name which it still bears, nearly three hundred years before Senefelder reinvented it; and specimens of the ancient art are yet to be seen in ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

... and coffee drinking have been celebrated in painting, engraving, sculpture, caricature, lithography, and music—Epics, rhapsodies, and cantatas in praise of coffee—Beautiful specimens of the art of the potter and the silversmith as shown in the coffee service of various periods in the world's history—Some historical relics ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers



Words linked to "Lithography" :   planography, printmaking, planographic printing, lithographer



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