autotype
Americannoun
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Photography.
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a process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.
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a print made by this process.
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noun
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a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
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an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile
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Origin of autotype
Example Sentences
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Casts are first taken from the coins, in white plaster; these are photographed, and the photograph printed by the autotype process.
From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by Ruskin, John
Our two woodcuts showing the tracery are copied from that work, but the autotype plate is from a photograph by Duschek.
From Roumania Past and Present by Samuelson, James
With 13 autotype Illustrations from designs by Margery May.
From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope
Compare an autotype of "Adam" in the Sistine with one of "Twilight" in S. Lorenzo: it is clear that in the former Michael Angelo painted what he would have been well pleased to carve.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
They would be so many little Mins, visiting me to soothe my exile, and bringing me, face to face and soul to soul, in the spirit, with their loving autotype at home!
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
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