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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of collotype

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

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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

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

Miss Muriel Landseer MacKenzie, sculptor and great-niece of Sir Edwin Landseer, gives a series of pencil drawings of which the collotype process makes faithful reproductions.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

I, 7, and the objects in collotype in Pl.

From El Kab by Quibell, James Edward

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