Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.
Color printing from multiple impositions of lithographic stones or similar lithographic printing surfaces. A process of illustration that reached its zenith in the mid-Nineteenth century.
A colour-printing process in which separate printing plates are used to apply each component colour allowing a full range of colour tones to be achieved with only four plates red, blue, yellow and black; Lithographic printing in colours using separate stones or plates for the various colours with some colours printed over others. Also called colour lithography or four-colour printing.
A 19th century process of colour printing. Often noted for the brilliant and vibrant finish.
See lithography below. In chromolithography an image is printed from several stones in sequence, each one adding a new color, shading or hue to the image.
A commercial type of color printed lithography using different stones, one for each color. Specifically applied to 19thC. color lithographs, which were intended as reproductions and were highly imitative of oil paintings. The large number of printing stones to be coordinated demanded the best of technically skilled printers.
single- or multi-color lithography
A lithographic process using several stones or plates - one for each color, printed in register. The result is color prints, to be distinguished from colored prints that have the color hand-applied after printing.
A color-printing process in which separate printing plates are used to apply each component color. Often called "four-color printing because the full range of color tones are achieved with only four plates - red, blue, yellow and black.
a photolithograph which is produced in colours; in use from 1850.
Chromolithography was the first method for making true multi-color prints. (Before the chromolithograph, prints were colored in by hand.) First commercialized in the 1830s by Godefrey Engleman of France, it was based on lithography which used flat stone slabs on which an image is drawn on the surface, but used separate stones for separate colors or impressions.