heliotype
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Also called: heliotypy. a printing process in which an impression is taken in ink from a gelatine surface that has been exposed under a negative and prepared for printing
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the gelatine plate produced by such a process
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a print produced from such a plate
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It is plainly shown in the heliotype which accompanies Professor Rau’s work on the Palenque cross, though not so well in our Fig.
From Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 by Holden, Edward Singleton
The illustrations consist of a fine heliotype view of the Old State House, from the east end, the home of the Society; and a copy of its well-devised seal, in the heraldic coloring.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various
The edition of 1627, belonging to the Library of Harvard College, contains likewise an illuminated title-page, which we here give in heliotype.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)
In 1878 Professor Norton, of Harvard University, published a set of thirty-three of the best of the Liber studies, reproduced in Boston by the heliotype process.
From A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
As the map of 1632 has often been referred to in this work, we have introduced into this volume a heliotype copy.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)
As with the contradictory critiques about one's writings, so also is it with the conflicting apparitions of comeliness or ugliness in the heliotyped exploits of different—some of them indifferent—photographers.
From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar
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