Crossword clues for photogravure
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Photogravure \Pho`to*grav"ure\, n. [F.] A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) An intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books. 2 (context countable English) A print so made. vb. To print by this process.
WordNet
n. printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods
an intaglio print produced by gravure [syn: gravure, heliogravure]
using photography to produce a plate for printing [syn: rotogravure]
Wikipedia
Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph.
Usage examples of "photogravure".
He saw only the dark photogravure on the distempered passage wall, and his interest was faintly touched by its likeness to his present environment.
With 2 Photogravure Portraits, 50 Full-page Illustrations, and numerous Illustrations in the Text.
With an Introductory Preface and 2 Photogravure Illustrations to each Volume.
With 20 Full-page Illustrations, 6 Woodcuts, a Photogravure, and a new Portrait.
Boxhill edition in seventeen volumes, with photogravure frontispieces, issued in this country by the Scribners.
The book is abundantly illustrated, having twelve excellent plates in lithograph and photogravure, and two hundred and seventy-eight in the tone process and photoengraving.
Directly opposite him upon the wall was a dark-toned photogravure of a hunting scene.
Shoulder-high beside him hung the photogravure that had already saved his life once.
Hetherton, speaking diffidently, transferred his gaze from the Cnossos figurine to a somewhat faded photogravure of the Hera of Samos.
I found, however, that to give anything like an adequate number of photogravures would have made the book so expensive that I was reluctantly compelled to abandon the idea.
He followed her into a room furnished in the Victorian manner with a bright carpet, plush curtains, a handsome solid couch and chairs, a fixture once devoted to gas but now converted to electricity in the middle of the ceiling, and a great variety of enlarged photographs, photogravures and china ornaments which combined uselessness and ugliness to a remarkable degree.
But buying cheap copies of the masters, replicas, casts, photogravures, was equally impossible.
Those brown-toned photogravures disÂplayed faces that looked as if they 'd had a very tough time but would never break under the strain.
He looked at the walls hung with sentimental photogravures, at the shiny bronze "nudes," the moth-eaten animal-skins and the bedizened bed-and once more the unreality, the impossibility, of all that was happening to him entered like a drug into his veins.