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LITHOGRAPHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A printmaker who uses lithography
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lithographer" is a kind of...):
graphic artist; printmaker (an artist who designs and makes prints)
Instance hyponyms:
Currier; Nathaniel Currier (United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed 'Currier & Ives' (1813-1888))
Daumier; Honore Daumier (French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879))
Ives; James Ives; James Merritt Ives (United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed 'Currier & Ives' (1824-1895))
Alois Senefelder; Aloys Senefelder; Senefelder (German printer who invented lithography (1771-1834))
Derivation:
lithograph (duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern)
lithograph (a print produced by lithography)
lithograph (make by lithography)
lithography (the act of making a lithographic print)
lithography (a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface)
