photogravure
Americannoun
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any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
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the plate.
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a print made from it.
noun
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any of various methods in which an intaglio plate for printing is produced by the use of photography
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matter printed from such a plate
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He employed a wide range of materials in them — wood, bronze, steel, aluminum, brass, cardboard, paper, canvas, plastic, vellum, photogravure and wallboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Each published set was accompanied by 20 large portfolios containing over 2,200 photogravure prints of the people, places and customs Curtis came to know.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
The latter is a misty, highly atmospheric photogravure of the smoke of a ghostly steam train drifting across water.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
His responsibilities include preserving for posterity two dainty teacups and saucers that bear photogravure likenesses of little Albert Einstein and his sister, Maya, and which came from the family’s home.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2013
He has done little with the pen, and it is in wash drawings, reproduced by photogravure, that he is best to be studied.
From English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books by Sketchley, Rose Esther Dorothea
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