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lithograph

[lith-uh-graf, -grahf] / ˈlɪθ əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /




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The cover featured a lithograph by Odilon Redon of an enormous eye in the shape of a hot-air balloon, a piece that apparently was inspired by Poe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

The lithograph is among 140 pieces available from a range of artists that can be viewed and selected from the gallery until Sunday.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025

Ruscha’s life-spanning retrospective currently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is called “Now Then,” evoking his black-and-white lithograph of the phrase “That was then, this is now” lit up against dark clouds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

Powell, he’d learned, had grown up with a Blue Angels lithograph in his childhood bedroom.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

This contemporary lithograph lampoons the panicked gentry who fled the city - and thus turned Handel’s new oratorio, Theodora, into a box-office flop.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Charcoals, lithographs and pastels reveal his command of darkness and color, a mastery that gave life to his Symbolist visions inspired by religion, literature and myth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

He did etchings, lithographs, even stained glass windows - equally at home working with the grandeur of opera design and the intimacy of pen and ink.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

On other days, you’d likely find him on the gallery’s mezzanine, buried among stacks of reference books to examine the artistic and historical quality of centuries-old and contemporary lithographs, etchings, engravings and other prints.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

Reporters flew first class and Picasso lithographs adorned the walls of an executive dining room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

This affidavit, therefore, is not required in the case of separate lithographs or photo-engravings.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

It is considered to be the first box to have been lithographed, according to Dardenne, whose collection can be visited by appointment.

From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021

It’s one of the featured attractions in Beauvais Lyons’s “Circus Orbis,” advertised in a set of lithographed posters that both lampoon and celebrate 19th-century popular entertainments.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2019

It is lithographed instead of engraved, as are real federal debt issues, Winslow says.

From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 18, 2012

The lithographed and painted surfaces wore out, and the frames snapped.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2010

Nova Scotia.—Some of the fine early issues have been lithographed in F., while the G. were engraved.

From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley Currie Johnson

The Bogarts were wealthy: young Humphrey's grandfather had invented a process of lithographing on tin.

From Time Magazine Archive

He promptly ran afoul of the Viennese authorities by boasting that he had discovered a way of lithographing bank notes.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the entire staff, its friends, the executives of our lithographing company and their wives were all busy wrapping magazines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other industrial establishments of importance include petroleum refineries, ship-yards, brick, stone and lime works, saddlery and harness factories, lithographing establishments, patent medicine works, chemical works, and copper smelters and refineries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Boys, you may go back to your lithographing now.

From The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Edgar B. P. Darlington


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