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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Facsimiles are given in the well-known edition of the Psalter, which was photographed by the autotype process and published in London in 1873.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
I tell you that the greengrocer who buys an original oil painting for sixteen shillings with frame complete is far nearer artistic salvation than the patron of the popular autotype.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Autogravure, aw-to-grav′ūr, n. a process of photo-engraving akin to autotype.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Her eyes were fixed on a cherished autotype of a Pinturicchia at Perugia,—Alan's favorite picture.
From The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen
Had a great deal of trouble this month about reproductions of drawings in autotype.
From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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