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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Photo-engraving, or a print obtained by this process; strictly, a photo-engraved metal plate. See heliotypy and photo-engraving. Also called helio-engraving.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The process of photographic engraving.
  2. n. An engraving of this kind.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The process of photographic engraving.
  2. n. A plate or picture made by the process of heliogravure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an intaglio print produced by gravure

Etymologies

  1. French héliogravure. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “When it came time to print what he had photographed, Dine chose heliogravure, the old style of printing favored by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Curtis and Paul Strand, which gives photographs a warm tone and an almost hand-drawn look -- like Dine's etchings.”

    Newsweek: Shooting Himself

  • “The Paris publishing-house of Welter undertook, in 1900, a heliogravure reproduction of it with”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy

  • “[56] It has since been published by Middleton himself in his _Remains of Ancient Rome_, vol.i. p. 275, fig. 35, from a heliogravure of the original.”

    Pagan and Christian Rome

  • “The statue, reproduced here from a heliogravure, is life-sized, and represents a nude youth, of archaic type.”

    Pagan and Christian Rome

  • “M.F. LENORM.NT has published in the _Gazette Archéologique_ (1878) a description of the pieces belonging to M. Schlumberger, with two plates in heliogravure.”

    A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1

  • “Moreover, ninety-six heliogravure enlargements from the Paris Chart-plates, distributed in the same year, supplied a basis for the calculation that the entire Atlas of the sky, composed of similar sheets, will form a pile thirty feet high and two tons in weight! [”

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition

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