1. a person who creates prints using lithography, a printing process based on the repulsion of oil and water

Examples

• The lithographer carefully prepared the stone surface for printing.
• She worked as a lithographer at the art studio downtown.
• The famous lithographer’s prints are displayed in the museum.
• He apprenticed under a master lithographer to learn the technique.
• The lithographer used special crayons to draw on the limestone.
• Many 19th-century lithographers produced commercial advertisements.