Member Blogs > Books Tell You WhyVLOG: Four Videos on the Art of Chromolithography
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:00:00 Permalink
The word lithograph comes from lithos, the Greek word for stone. Lithography differs from similar image-based printing methods by not requiring the artist to carve into the medium, as she would have to do with a copper engraving or a woodcut relief. Instead, she draws the image onto the smooth surface of a limestone block, and then uses oil and other substances to transfer it onto paper.