autograph
/ˈɔːtəɡrɑːf
/- I still have their autographs, written in English and Chinese, in my autograph album.
- Apart from autographs, the gallery also sells small pieces of signed film footage, framed and mounted, the cheapest items in the shop.
- His job, and his obsession, is collecting and trading in the autographs of celebrities.
Synonyms
- The Cainan difference is not an error in the original autographs of Scripture, but one of the extremely few copyist's errors in the manuscripts available today.
- Fernandes left in autograph over 250 festal chanzonetas and villancicos.
- You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written.
- After the service, Alexander retreats to an office in the back of the building, where he spends the next hour autographing pictures and answering mail from fans.
- I'll be there autographing copies of my new Tiger book.
Synonyms
- For the first time, we have detailed studies of all of Purcell's autograph manuscripts, together with surveys of the important secondary sources.
- Historically, sketches have been autograph manuscripts, but today a sketch of an electronic work might be in the form of a tape, or notation might be realized in a computer notation program, and so on.
- Both the melody and the four-part harmonisation are printed as facsimile reproductions of the composer's autograph manuscript.
- The computer has succeeded in dividing a set of landscape drawings by the artist between autograph works and others along the same lines as art historians.
- Prized for their status as original autograph works of Greek art, these images stood as witnesses to the civilizing power of Rome.
- It entered the gallery under a false provenance and for a short time in the nineteenth century was regarded as autograph.
Derivatives
autographic
- ‘The autographic handwriting is very important to me,’ he says.
- The sketch itself is a work of art, and one that is autographic, in spite of its being used as a guide to the production of the final work.
- Of course, these abstract markings have been enlarged and transferred from Rowland's own designs, which makes them iconic renderings of autographic originals.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French autographe or late Latin autographum, from Greek autographon, neuter of autographos 'written with one's own hand', from autos 'self' + graphos 'written'.
photograph from mid 19th century:
The original of this was French photographie ‘photography’, first recorded in 1834. The word was apparently introduced to English (along with photographic and photograph) by Sir John Herschel in a paper presented to the Royal Society on 14 March 1839. Both the French and English words were formed from Greek photo- ‘light’ (found in numerous other words) and graphē ‘writing, drawing’, as in autograph (mid 17th century), something written in one's own hand, from Greek auto ‘by oneself’ and seismograph (mid 19th century) combined with Greek seismos ‘earthquake’. As early as 1860 Queen Victoria was using the short form photo, writing in a letter about someone ‘waiting to know…about the photo’.