different between xylography vs xylograph

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French xylographie, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) +? -graphy (“writing”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

xylography (uncountable)

1. (rare) The art of making xylographs.

   Coordinate term: woodblock printing

   • 1995, Manfredo Tafuri, Venice and the Renaissance, MIT Press (?ISBN), page 236:

     Furthermore, one ought to mention the xylography that has been attributed to Titian since the eighteenth century and that represents San Rocco e storie della sua vita (fig. 72) (London, British Museum, inv. 1860-4-14-140), circulated as a […]

   • 2018, Peter Francis Kornicki, Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia, Oxford University Press (?ISBN)

     Xylography involves writing the text to be printed onto thin paper, fixing the paper face down on a flat wooden block and then carving away the white parts to leave the text upstanding in relief. In order to print, it is necessary to […]

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) +? -graph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?za?.l??.????f/, /?za?.l?.????f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?za?.lo?.????f/, /?za?.l?.????f/

Noun

xylograph (plural xylographs or xylographica)

1. An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).

   Synonym: woodcut

   • 2009, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Culture of the Book in Tibet, Columbia University Press (?ISBN)

     First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasam?ja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.

2. A print taken from such an engraving.
   • 2011, Udo J. Hebel, Christoph Wagner, Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, Walter de Gruyter (?ISBN), page 143:

     While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]

   • 2014, Sang-jin Park, Under the Microscope: The Secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (?ISBN), page 1:

     The restoration process brought to light a sarira box containing an artifact that rewrote that history: the oldest xylograph in the world, reproduced in ink from woodblocks with characters carved in relief, was found inside the box from the second […]

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Verb

xylograph (third-person singular simple present xylographs, present participle xylographing, simple past and past participle xylographed)

1. (transitive) To make a print from an engraving in wood.

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