photogravuren.adj.
/ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)ɡrəˈvjʊə/, U.S. /ˈˌfoʊdəɡrəˈvjʊ(ə)r/ A. n.
The production of an image from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in; the process by which such an image is produced; (also) an image produced by this method. Cf. photoengraving n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > photogravure or phototypography
heliography1845
photoglyphography1856
photoglyphy1858
phototypy1859
photogravure1873
dallastype1875
phototypography1875
heliogravure1879
autogravure1885
typogravure1885
helio-engraving1886
process engraving1889
gravure1893
colour gravure1900
1873 Veteran French Soldier or Sailor (title page) Photogravure by Goupil & Cie.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Nov. 3/2 Several photogravures of the graceful recent pictures of Sir Frederick Leighton.
1937 W. Lewis Revenge for Love vi. ii. 277 Stamp had come heartily to dislike these red-rimmed ferret-eyes that watched him from a dozen examples—photogravures, half-tones, and photographs—pinned-up for reference.
1994 Stamp Mag. Nov. 25/1 All five stamps are printed in photogravure by Harrisons & Sons Limited with perforation 15×14.
2002 Amer. Photo May 12/2 That version..is bound in Moroccan goatskin and comes with an additional unbound set of 10 photogravures.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of, relating to, or produced by photogravure.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [adjective] > photogravure
heliographic1851
photoglyphic1852
phototypic1859
photogravure1879
photo-etched1894
Ben Day1912
1879 Daily Tel. 28 July 2/4 Photogravure reproductions in course of publication.
1927 Geogr. Jrnl. 69 151 Its frontispiece is a well-executed photogravure portrait.
1951 Times 14 May 7/7 Satisfactory photogravure designs are possible, as witness some very beautiful Swiss commemorative stamps.
2001 V. Watson Cambr. Guide to Children's Bks. in Eng. 196 The full-colour photogravure printing allowed Frank Hampson's meticulous and imaginative artwork to make an unforgettable impact.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
photogravurev.
/ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)ɡrəˈvjʊə/, U.S. /ˈˌfoʊdəɡrəˈˌvju(ə)r/ Now rare.
transitive. To reproduce by photogravure.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > process [verb (transitive)] > photogravure
phototype1855
photogravure1884
photo-etch1900
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Nov. 9/1 The work will be taken to Paris to be photogravured.
1892 Scribner's Mag. Dec. a18/2 Etched or photogravured by Norman Hirst.
1903 Classical Rev. 17 371/2 The most important works of art are photogravured, and very beautiful they are.
1974 P. Reading For Municipality's Elderly in Coll. Poems (1995) I. 44 Reminiscent of Grandfather photogravured.
Derivatives
ˌphotograˈvured adj. that has been produced by photogravure.
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1964 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 29 Feb. 23/6 Line engraving has replaced the vivid color of the photogravured lower denominations.
2002 Alameda (Calif.) Times-Star (Nexis) 7 May Radcliffe Bailey of Atlanta, whose work combines photogravured images from a family album with shape, color,..and juxtapositions of place names.
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n.adj.1873v.1884