what is a lithograph?

Question

I have what I thought was a limited print/ sketch but I have been told by someone that knows a tad more about art than myself that it is a lithograph. When I looked it up in the dictionary though it just says 'a print produced by lithography' ???

Answer 1

Check this out......
http://www.unm.edu/~tamarind/process.html
Basically, it is a print made by using a press to transfer an image that was created initially on stone or metal plate to paper.


Aloys Senefelder, who invented lithography in 1798, preferred to call it "chemical printing", since the process depends on the chemical interaction of grease, nitric acid, gum arabic, and water, rather than the stone from which the name lithography is derived.

Although the term can refer to commercially reproduced images, such as those on posters or in magazines, at Tamarind a lithograph is an image made by an artist who works closely with an artisan printer.

Answer 2

This term describes general offset printing. This process is used by most print publishers today. The original painting is photographed and the image is burned into four plates for a full color printing process. The ink comes from a roller on a printing press. High quality lithographs use a very fine dot screen on acid free paper with fade resistant inks.

Answer 3

Lithography:
1. The art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
2.a similar process in which a substance other than stone, as aluminum or zinc, is used. Compare offset (def. 6).

Answer 4

lithograph

n 1: a print produced by lithography 2: duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern [syn: lithograph machine] v : make by lithography

Answer 5

A print.

Lithography refers to a printing process that uses chemical processes to create an image. For instance, the positive part of an image would be a hydrophobic chemical, while the negative image would be water. Thus, when the plate is introduced to a compatible ink and water mixture, the ink will adhere to the positive image and the water will clean the negative image. This allows for a relatively flat print plate which allows for much longer runs than the older physical methods of imaging (e.g., embossing or engraving).

Answer 6

lith‧o‧graph  /ˈlɪθəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[lith-uh-graf, -grahf] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. a print produced by lithography.
–verb (used with object) 2. to produce or copy by lithography.


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[Origin: 1815–25; back formation from lithography]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Answer 7

It's a stone print some old film posters here made in Belgium are made in this make, the value is better then just a print.

Answer 8

a picture printed using a stone or metal block on which an image has been drawn with a thick oily substance that attracts ink

thats out the dictionary but it might help!!

Answer 9

litho printers are just machines that print every colour in layers, just like when you see newspapers where the colours seem a bit wonky. They are generally used for mass production so things like magazines leaflets etc.

Answer 10

I was going to to into a detailed explanation, but see I've been pipped at the post. Congratulations to those who've done their homework.
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It could be valuable.