Relating to a printing or artistic technique that combines color application with engraving on copper plates.
From Greek 'chroma' (color), 'chalkos' (copper), and 'graphia' (writing/drawing), the term describes techniques developed in 19th-century printmaking that layered colored inks on engraved copper surfaces.
Chromochalcographic printing was an early ancestor of color printing—artists would hand-color or selectively ink different parts of engraved copper plates to create multicolored prints before modern color printing existed.
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