oleograph

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | 227 words | Copyright

oleograph. A coloured lithograph impressed with a canvas grain and varnished to make it look like an oil painting. Oleographs were popular—but often considered rather vulgar—in the second half of the 19th century.

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