photoengraving

English

After Sophie Gengembre Anderson, A girl looking through a window on a rainy day, 1857, photoengraving.

Etymology

photo- + engraving

Noun

photoengraving (countable and uncountable, plural photoengravings)

  1. (uncountable) A process of transferring a photographic image onto a plate which is then etched and printed.
  2. (countable) A plate or reproduction made using this process.

Verb

photoengraving

  1. present participle of photoengrave
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