colour-work

Updated: May 1, 2025

Nor for him the mere æsthetic toying, the dainty piece of colour-work; but poetry that should throb with vitality and humanness. From dream poetry he had passed to dream life. Now that he had won his way to true life, was he not, too, to win his way to true song?

Louis Zangwill - Cleo The Magnificent : Or, the Muse of the Real

Half-tone zinco and similar processes have brought down the expenses entailed by reproductions in colour-work, so as to render an undertaking of this kind much more feasible than it was in the middle of the last half-century.

George Sutherland - Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast