collotype
Americannoun
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any photomechanical process of printing from a plate coated with gelatin.
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the plate used for this.
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a print made from such a plate.
verb (used with object)
noun
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Also called: photogelatine process. a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
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a print made using this process
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of collotype
1880–85; < Greek kóll ( a ) glue + -o- + -type
Example Sentences
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The landscape photographers of America are included as well, with representative photographs by Carleton Watkins, and Eadweard Muybridge, a photographer of animals in motion, represented by a collotype formerly in the Corcoran Collection.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2015
Even the far more costly and time-consuming method of collotype, which offers near-perfect color veracity, does not capture the raised daubs and whorls of the artist's brush.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into his book he has put high sensibility, a lifetime of scholarship, and an exquisite selection of 261 collotype reproductions of important drawings.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a common collotype reproduction of a stodgy night-effect, a full moon in a black-leaded sky with reflections in water to match—price perhaps five shillings.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
With frontispiece in colour and thirty-five portraits in collotype.
From Law and Laughter by Morton, George A. (George Alexander)
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