collotype

American  

[kol-uh-tahyp] / ˈkɒl əˌtaɪp /

noun

1. any photomechanical process of printing from a plate coated with gelatin.

2. the plate used for this.

3. a print made from such a plate.

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verb (used with object)

collotyped, collotyping

1. to produce (a print) by collotype; albertype; artotype; heliotype.

collotype British  

/ ˌkɒləˈtɪpɪk, ˈkɒləʊˌtaɪp /

noun

1. 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

2. a print made using this process

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Other Word Forms

• collotypic adjective
• collotypy noun

Etymology

Origin of collotype

1880–85; < Greek kóll ( a ) glue + -o- + -type

Example Sentences

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

Four portraits in colour, twenty-five in collotype and several letters in facsimile. 

From Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by Borrow, George Henry

This volume contains reproduction in colour of sixteen Jacobite pictures and seven portraits in collotype.

From Law and Laughter by Morton, George A. (George Alexander)