Definition of Zincography. Meaning of Zincography. Synonyms of Zincography

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Definition of Zincography

Zincography
Zincography in*cog"ra*phy, n. [Zinco- + -graphy.] The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid.

Meaning of Zincography from wikipedia

- Zincography was a planographic printing process that used zinc plates. Alois Senefelder first mentioned zinc's lithographic use as a substitute for Bavarian...
- Henry claiming it saved over £2000 a year, from the invention of photo-zincography; the cost of producing a map of a rural district was reduced from 4 to...
- March 17, 2024. Retrieved September 27, 2020. Vaughan, L Brent (1897). "Zincography". The Junior Encyclopedia Britannica A Reference Library of General Knowledge...
- 1840-1900. D. R. Godine, 1979. Planography Photochrom Color printing Zincography History of graphic design Lithography William Griggs, 19th-century inventor...
- to photo color relief, gillotage, chromotype, color relief etching, zincography, chromoxylography, color line block, glyptotype, Dallastint, Dallastype...
- different color filters, reduced the number of prints needed to three. Zincography, with zinc plates, later replaced lithographic stones, and remained the...
- Charivari. Contributing with lithographs, woodcuts, and (after 1870) with zincographies (gillotage) were: Cham (Amédée de Noé) Honoré Daumier Alexandre-Gabriel...
- stint in the military came to a close in 1883. The prevalence of the new zincography printing process rendered xylography nearly obsolete as a profession...
- characteristic. From the mid-1870s Busch's illustrations were printed using zincography. With this technique there was no longer any danger that a wood engraver...
- contest for a Guggenheim scholarship. In 1953 he aut****d a series of zincography prints based on the theme of the Argentine national gauchesque poem Martín...