[f. LITHO- + Gr. χρῶμα color + -Y. Cf. F. lithocromie.]

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  1.  Painting on stone.

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1837.  Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 72/2. The peripteral temple executed by me in Munich Park, which, to the best of my knowledge, constitutes the first example of lithochromy in the present day.

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1850.  Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art (ed. 2), § 320. A very important application of painting, from an early period, was that for which in our times the term lithochromy has been formed.

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  2.  Chromolithography.

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1885.  E. C. Agassiz, Life L. Agassiz, I. 282. The newly-invented art of lithochromy [anno 1838].

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