copperplate
- noun
- /ˈkɑːpərˌpleɪt/
- Specialized
:
grabado en cobre
- The book includes several copperplate engravings that enhance the storytelling experience.
- copperplate print
- etched copperplate
Examples
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Most of the items were likely copperplate prints, for the medium was conducive to the promulgation of these politically motivated images.
Academic text (2014) -
The technology and products of copperplate printing constitute another illuminating example.
Academic text (2014) -
Finally, the bookkeeper presented an etched copperplate to the deputy.
Academic text (1995) -
It was an exhibit of copperplate etchings.
Fiction book (1994) -
Vasi transferred these drawings in reverse to copperplates.
Academic text (1995) -
Many of these highly commoditized prints display the salient features of linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and cross-hatching generally seen in European copperplate prints.
Academic text (2014) -
High Qing emperors saw copperplate printing as one form of European technology, along with those of glassmaking and painted enamel, that China had not yet acquired but seriously desired.
Academic text (2014) -
The artist created beautiful illustrations using a copperplate for the gallery's new exhibition.
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She showed her friends a copperplate print of a historical map during the museum tour.
Synonyms
105
3.6
A picture made by pressing paper on a carved surface with ink
25
4.1
A picture made by cutting or etching a hard surface
An image cut into a copper plate and printed on paper
A picture made by cutting lines into metal and then printing it
A picture printed from a steel plate with a design cut into it
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Copperplate originally meant a print made from a thin sheet of copper called a plate, where the picture or words were cut into the metal, inked, and pressed onto paper. So a copperplate is a printed image made from that engraved copper sheet.