lithographers

Flat surface printers

Lithographers are people who practice lithography, a printing method originally using stone plates.

The technique involves drawing on a flat surface with greasy materials, then using the principle that oil and water don't mix to transfer images to paper.

Lithographers have historically produced fine art prints, maps, posters, and commercial illustrations: The lithographers worked through the night to meet the print deadline.

craft

printmakers

Artists producing multiple impressions

stonesSmall hard earth fragments
platesFlat eating dishes
pressesPushes or flattens

ink · graining · etching · proofing · editions · rollers · flatbed · gum arabic · crayon · registration

artistic

Toulouse-Lautrec

Fin-de-siècle lithographer

EscherDutch impossible-geometry artist
postersPrinted wall advertisements
illustrationsPictures explaining text

fine art · reproductions · chromolithography · gallery · collectors · signed prints · limited editions · original works · commissions · portfolios

commercial

printers

Document output devices

mapsGeographic visual representations
labelsIdentifying markers attached to items
advertisementsPaid public notices promoting something

packaging · newspapers · trade cards · sheet music · broadsides · catalogs · banknotes · stamps · cigar boxes · book illustrations

historical

nineteenth century

Years 1801-1900

MunichBavaria's largest city
ParisFrance's chief city
VictorianOf a prim era

guilds · trade unions · industrialization · decline · obsolescence · heritage · archives · museums · preservation · antique prints

Categories

printingprinting press, letterpress, printing, offset printing, press
printing historyprinting press, Gutenberg, typographers, Gutenberg press, block printing
printmakersprintmakers, printmaker, etcher, etchers, engravers
collectibles creators

Opposites

printing method

lithographersengravers

Those who carve designs

etchers · screen printers

analog vs. digital creation

lithographersdigital artists

Creators using electronic media

graphic designers

reproduction vs. unique works

lithographerspainters

Those who apply pigment

sculptors · muralists · fine artists · sketch artists · portraitists

Family

lithographer, lithographed

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