copperplate

Examples

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• The artist used a newly prepared copperplate to create detailed prints for the exhibition.

• Domenico Campi-Gila, "minister of the Calcografia," was reimbursed for sums spent on acquiring paper and a copperplate, and for pulling 597 prints on paper and 3 on satin.

  Academic text (1995)

• Indeed, it was at the point of such perfection that engraving on copperplate became possible.

  Academic text (2000)

• On Monday, June 6, Cappelli gave the copperplate to the printer Gismondi.

  Academic text (1995)

• The onetime mansion-house guest was arranging a display dominated by a copperplate picture of a bird.

  Fiction book (1992)

• With copperplates fresh from the planishing, Vasi could set about his work in 1759.

  Academic text (1995)

• With the division of labor characteristic of early modern Europe, Vasi would probably not have prepared the copperplates, a process that required specialized equipment and a considerable expenditure of time.

  Academic text (1995)

• It was standard practice to warm the copperplate slightly before inking; as if to make the point, a shop assistant is shown coating a plate with ink while it lies on a grill.

  Academic text (1995)

• Pittori received a separate payment for having burnished the above-mentioned copperplates. The asking prices had been agreed upon beforehand, a specification that helped ensure full payment and implies continuities of patronage.

  Academic text (1995)

• The engraved frame (the three rectangles that surround text and image) lies a scant 40 millimeters from the edge of the copperplate, so these expensive, hand-crafted matrices were used with little waste.

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

P

plate

vscopperplate

296 3.4

A flat thin piece of material like metal or bone

is a smooth metal sheet etched and used for printing images or text

Compounds

C

copperplate engraving

• Specialized

8.2

An image cut into a copper plate and printed on paper

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology