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printmaker

DEFINITIONS OF: printmaker

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n an artist who designs and makes prints

Synonyms:
graphic artist
Examples:
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Nathaniel Currier
United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1813-1888)
Honore Daumier
French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879)
James Merritt Ives
United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895)
Alois Senefelder
German printer who invented lithography (1771-1834)
Types:
engraver
a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate
lithographer
a printmaker who uses lithography
Type of:
artist, creative person
a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
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