gravure's Usage Examples:

The Specialkarte of Austria-Hungary on a scale of r:75,000 (765 sheets), based upon a triangulation and cadastral surveys (1816-1867), was completed in 1889, and published in heliogravure.

And these now rare and coveted pieces remain to rebuke us for our modern preference for the mechanical and unnatural chiaroscuro of photogravure - the successor and destroyer of the graver's art.

It has particular expertise in screen, flexographic (soft lithography ), offset, gravure and pad printing.

Another process, photoor heliogravure, for obtaining an engraved image on a copper plate, was for the first time employed on a large scale for producing a new topographical map of the Austrian Empire in 718 sheets, on a scale of I: 75,000, which was completed in seventeen years (1873-1890).

Babelon, Histoire de la gravure sur gemmes en France (1902).

gravure cylinder under a glass.

photogravure prints from his Fine Art web site.

Topographical surveys are gradually extending, and explorers of recent years are better trained for their work than they were a generation ago, whilst technical processes of recent invention - such as lithography, photography and heliogravure - facilitate or expedite the completion of his task.

gravure printing presses capable of printing in up to nine colors.

photogravure process.

Huggins's personal retrospect in the Nineteenth Century for June 1897; "Scientific Worthies," with photogravure portrait (Nature); Astronomers of To-Day, by Hector Macpherson, junr.

Click on the thumbnail, right, to see a photogravure of the original painting.

Synonyms:

rotogravure, printing, photogravure,

Antonyms:

unavailability, inaccessibility,