单词 | nature-printed |
释义 | nature-printedadj. rare. Now historical. Of a subject: that has been illustrated by nature-printing. Of an illustration: that has been produced by nature-printing. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > nature-printing > [adjective] nature-printed1856 phytoglyphic1864 1856 T. Moore (title) Nature-printed British ferns. 1859 W. G. Johnstone & A. Croall (title) The nature-printed British sea-weeds. 1866 Atlantic Monthly July 63/1 Turning back the stony tablets time has firmly bound, he views upon their wrinkled sides its nature-printed figures,—relics that have there remained, locked in the rocky sepulchre. 1876 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 128 We have received..two beautiful nature-printed photographs of ferns. 1891 Littell's Living Age 17 Oct. 136/2 The light of a world so distant that the most powerful instrument will not show it to the astronomer's own eye, prints itself on the photographic plate... While poring over their nature-printed charts of the sky, the astronomers found mysterious strangers among the old familiar faces. 1967 R. Cave & G. Wakeman Typographia Naturalis i. 11 Other nature printed illustrations to books were produced in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 1999 Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee) (Nexis) 19 Dec. (Showtime section) g8 The book focuses on artwork created with plants..and examples of a colonial currency design by Benjamin Franklin, who used nature-printed leaves to help discourage counterfeiting. 2003 J. T. Mickel Ferns for Amer. Gardens Introd. 3 Especially noteworthy were his [i.e. Moore's] ‘nature-printed’ volumes, in which the actual fronds were pressed into lead to make the book's plates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasnature-printed 4. nature-printed: see nature-printed adj. < adj.1856 as lemmas |
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