a. and sb. [f. LITHO- + Gr. χρωματ-, χρῶμα color + -IC.]
A. adj. Pertaining to lithochromatics; involving or produced by applying oil colors to stone. B. sb. pl. The art or process of applying oil colors to stone and taking impressions therefrom.
1846. Buchanan, Technol. Dict., Lithochromatics, the art of painting in oil upon stone, and taking impressions on canvas.
1870. Eng. Mech., 7 Jan., 404/3. The influence … of lithography and litho-chromatic printing upon the older arts of engraving … has been such that the processes in … use fifty years ago can scarcely be said to exist.
So Lithochromic a. and sb., in the same sense.
1850. Ogilvie, Lithochromics.
