Zincography
（重定向自Zincograph）
![A panoramic image of Kiev, Ukraine (circa 1870–1880) using the zincographic process.](/Images/godic/202502/22/Kyiv_1870-18801632.jpg")
![For this map each constituent plate was printed approximately 6 3/4 by 4 3/4 inches on 6 inches to the mile scale.](/Images/godic/202502/22/A_scan_of_a_small_section_of_an_1862_map1632.jpg")
Zincography was a planographic printing process that used zinc plates. Alois Senefelder first mentioned zinc's lithographic use as a substitute for Bavarian limestone in his 1801 English patent specifications. In 1834, Federico Lacelli patented a zincographic printing process, producing large maps called géoramas. In 1837-1842, Eugène-Florent Kaeppelin perfected the process to create a large polychrome geologic map.