lithographs

Prints from stone

Lithographs is the plural of lithograph—a print made by drawing on a flat stone or metal plate with a greasy substance, then applying ink that adheres only to the drawn areas.

The technique produces distinctive prints prized in fine art and commercial illustration: The gallery specializes in nineteenth-century lithographs.

As a verb, lithographs means produces such prints.

printmaking

stone

Solid earth fragment

proof · matrix · ink · press · limestone · transfer · gum arabic · offset · chromolithography · hand-pulled

collecting

gallery

Space for displaying artwork

antique · fine art · auction · provenance · folio · portfolio · archival · conservation · framing · appraisal

artists

Toulouse-Lautrec

Fin-de-siècle lithographer

Degas · Escher · Chagall · Miró · Robert Rauschenberg · Currier and Ives

Categories
Opposites
printmaking technique

lithographsphotographs

Light-captured images

etchings · woodcuts · engravings · screen prints · serigraphs

reproduction vs. unique creation

lithographsoil paintings

Artwork using pigmented oils

watercolors · drawings · sculptures

analog vs. digital image creation

lithographsdigital prints

Electronically produced images

digital art · NFTs · pixel art · 3D renders

Phrases
Family

lithograph, lithography, lithographer, lithographic, lithographed, lithographers, lithographing

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G