photogravure, n.
(ˌfəʊtəʊgræˈvjʊə(r))
[a. F. photogravure, f. photo- + gravure engraving.]
Photo-engraving; esp. the process of preparing a plate or matrix by transferring a photographic negative of a drawing, painting, or object to a metal plate, and then etching it in; a picture produced by this process. Also attrib.
| 1879 Daily Tel. 28 July 2/4 Photogravure reproductions in course of publication. 1880 A. S. Murray in Academy 4 Dec. 411 The perfection of photogravure with which the plates have been executed. 1883 Pall Mall G. 1 Nov. 3/2 Several photogravures of the graceful recent pictures of Sir Frederick Leighton. 1890 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 19 Dec. 72 Both painter and public..must prefer a photogravure to the hard, formal..character of the line engraving. |
Hence photograˈvure v. trans., to reproduce by photogravure; photograˈvurist, an artist or operator in photogravure.
| 1884 Pall Mall G. 17 Nov. 9/1 The work will be taken to Paris to be photogravured. 1889 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 251 A lithographer, or photogravurist, steps in and robs me of the result of my thought, skill and labor, without saying ‘by your leave’. |