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
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
As our readers are aware, we have had an opportunity of seeing collotype printing in operation in several European establishments of note, and have, from time to time, published in these columns our experiences.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
Mr. Sawyer therefore started for Berlin early in 1869, and there met a certain Herr Gh�moser, a clever expert in the collotype process, from whom he obtained valuable information and working instructions.
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