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

With thirty-two portraits in collotype and frontispiece in colour.

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

First published in Magazine of Art, May 1898; again as double page in "Second Book"; again, reduced, in collotype, in "Early Work."

From Aubrey Beardsley by Ross, Robert