Photogravure is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained and then coated with a
Photogravure of Victor Hugo, 1883 by Walery
A 1901 photogravure illustration by W. E. F. Britten for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem St. Simeon Stylites.
Adi Holzer, Werksverzeichnis 899 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong), photogravure and etching, 2002.
1914 stamp of Ludwig III of Bavaria.
Intaglio is the group of printing and printmaking techniques in which an image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink. It is the direct opposite of a relief print
Photogravure
…Photogravure (in French héliogravure) is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive…
Banknote portrait pattern made with intaglio printing. Denomination: 1000 Hungarian forint. Depicted area: 18.1 by 13.5 millimetres (0.71 in × 0.53 in).