calotype

[kal-uh-tahyp]

noun

an early negative-positive photographic process, patented by William Henry Talbot in 1841, in which a paper negative is produced and then used to make a positive contact print in sunlight.
a print made by this process.

Origin of calotype

1835–45; < Greek kalo- (combining form of kalós beautiful) + -type

Also called Talbotype.

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Historical Examples of calotype

The notion of a "national reward" for the Calotype scarcely requires a remark.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
Various
The Calotype process, by which the images of the camera can be fixed upon paper, was invented by Mr. Talbot, in 1840.
Great Facts
Frederick C. Bakewell
At its base sat a beggar; while an artist, at a little distance, was sketching it with the calotype.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber
James Aitken Wylie
Calotype, a process of photography invented by Fox Talbot in 1840, by means of the action of light on nitrate of silver.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Edited by Rev. James Wood
Three hours in the calotype and waxed-paper process, and half-an-hour sufficed for the collodion process!!
The Evolution of Photography
John Werge

British Dictionary definitions for calotype

calotype

noun

an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
a photograph made by this process

Word Origin for calotype

C19: from Greek kalos beautiful + -type

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