chromolithography

American  

[kroh-moh-li-thog-ruh-fee] / ˌkroʊ moʊ lɪˈθɒg rə fi /

noun

1. the process of lithographing in colors from a series of plates or stones.

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chromolithography British  

/ ˌkrəʊməʊlɪˈθɒɡrəfɪ, ˌkrəʊməʊlɪθəˈɡræfɪk /

noun

1. the process of making coloured prints by lithography

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Other Word Forms

• chromolithographer noun
• chromolithographic adjective

Etymology

Origin of chromolithography

First recorded in 1830–40; chromo- + lithography

Example Sentences

Throughout the 19th century, chromolithography – the process of colour printing using stones – usurped hand-colouring and made mass-production easier.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2020

It may seem an anticlimax to trace the color woodcut from Jackson to Baxter, and finally to chromolithography, but it is not irrelevant.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob

When Ferdinand Lind looked out the next day from the window of his hotel, it was not at all the Venice of chromolithography that lay before him.

From Sunrise by Black, William

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.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob

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.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas