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  • Offset Lithography | Letters are transferred to paper from a plastic plate.

    Leaving the Right Impression Lesley M. M. Blume 2011

  • Grinstein had come to know Ken Tyler, who was a master printer at Tamarind Lithography Workshop.

    Tom Teicholz: How LA Grew Its Art Tom Teicholz 2011

  • Grinstein had come to know Ken Tyler, who was a master printer at Tamarind Lithography Workshop.

    Tom Teicholz: How LA Grew Its Art Tom Teicholz 2011

  • Grinstein had come to know Ken Tyler, who was a master printer at Tamarind Lithography Workshop.

    Tom Teicholz: How LA Grew Its Art Tom Teicholz 2011

  • /Artists Rights Society (ARS) Diego Rivera's 1930 "Autoretrato (Self-Portrait)" Lithography Artists use a greasy material like chalk or crayon, working just as they would on a sketch or watercolor.

    Ways to Manage an Image 2011

  • Lithography is a printing method where the image is drawn with a grease pencil on a polished stone slab.

    Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

  • Lithography didn't kill engraving, but engraving became an artistic specialty.

    Death of Print? James Gurney 2009

  • The theory will possibly be objected to by many of our readers: the best proof in its favor, we think, is, that the state of art amongst the people in France and Germany, where publishers are not so wealthy or enterprising as with us,5 and where Lithography is more practised, is infinitely higher than in England, and the appreciation more correct.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • With ourselves, among whom money is plenty, enterprise so great, and everything matter of commercial speculation, Lithography has not been so much practised as wood or steel engraving; which, by the aid of great original capital and spread of sale, are able more than to compete with the art of drawing on stone.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • Lithography has been, to our thinking, the very best ally that art ever had; the best friend of the artist, allowing him to produce rapidly multiplied and authentic copies of his own works (without trusting to the tedious and expensive assistance of the engraver); and the best friend to the people likewise, who have means of purchasing these cheap and beautiful productions, and thus having their ideas “mollified” and their manners

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

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