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photogravure

NOUN
  1. an intaglio print produced by gravure
  2. using photography to produce a plate for printing
  3. printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods

How To Use photogravure In A Sentence

  • On the top of the page was a photogravure of a beautiful woman, tall, with a mass of curly black hair and thick dark eyebrows, standing straight-backed in a white dress, staring out of the page in a way that reminded Ruby of Mama. DIAMOND RUBY
  • A photogravure of the baptistery-chapel in 1897 shows the structure exactly as it stands today, but illustrations of the three large mosaics in the same publication differ significantly from the finished works.
  • Mills may have paid a record price, but Goupil still owned the copyright, which enabled him to reproduce the composition again in 1877 as a photogravure.
  • Manuscripts by Leonardo dispersed throughout Europe, and to reproduce the highly important original sketches they contain, by the process of "photogravure". The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
  • In the mid 19th century, Scottish photographers were among the first to use the variety of photographically linked techniques such as the calotype, daguerreotype and photogravure.
  • At the Gallerie Laage-Salomon, Moffatt's series ‘Landanum’ exploited the photogravure in order to depict a complex homoerotic drama between two women separated by race, age and class.
  • In the photogravure process, the image is photochemically transferred to an etching plate that has been coated with a light-sensitive emulsion.
  • Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet. Rational Review
  • In the photogravure process, the image is photochemically transferred to an etching plate that has been coated with a light-sensitive emulsion.
  • By printing the same image four ways -- as a halftone photolithograph, continuous tone photolithograph, photogravure and salt print -- the subtle shifts and changes that occur through these varied processes become evident. Jane Chafin: Exit Through the Gift Shop (The Emperor Is Naked)
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