autotype

[aw-tuh-tahyp]

noun

facsimile(defs 1, 2).
Photography.
1. a process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.
2. a print made by this process.

Origin of autotype

First recorded in 1850–55; auto-¹ + type

Related formsau·to·typ·ic

[aw-tuh-tip-ik] /ˌɔ təˈtɪp ɪk/, adjectiveau·to·typ·y

[aw-tuh-tahy-pee] /ˈɔ təˌtaɪ pi/, noun

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Historical Examples of autotype

Some are in brown, some in blue, reproduced by the Autotype Company.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
The Autotype Company, of London, manufacture a special "transparency" tissue.
Photogravure
Henry R. Blaney
A certain amount of control can be kept over an autotype picture.
Photogravure
Henry R. Blaney
Autogravure, aw-to-grav′ūr, n. a process of photo-engraving akin to autotype.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
You may contemplate the entire gallery and succession in numismatic books, with autotype reproductions of these caricatures.
The Confessions of a Collector
William Carew Hazlitt

British Dictionary definitions for autotype

autotype

noun

a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile

Derived Formsautotypic (ˌɔːtəˈtɪpɪk), adjectiveautotypy, noun

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