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  

/ 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

• collotypy
  noun
• collotypic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of collotype

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

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Example Sentences

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collotype

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

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

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

The collotype process then became his hope and refuge, but that also was in its infancy, and not practised in England.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by John Werge

Upon a big steel bed lies the little collotype block.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various

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