heliotype

American  

[hee-lee-uh-tahyp] / ˈhi li əˌtaɪp /

noun

heliotyped, heliotyping

1. collotype.

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heliotype British  

/ ˈhiːlɪəʊˌtaɪp, ˌhiːlɪəʊˈtɪpɪk /

noun

1. 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

2. the gelatine plate produced by such a process

3. a print produced from such a plate

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Other Word Forms

• heliotypic
  adjective
• heliotypically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of heliotype

First recorded in 1865–70; helio- + -type

Example Sentences

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heliotype heliotyped

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

We want a heliotype made of our eldest daughter.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

All of the photographs are similar to those which appear in heliotype, diminished in size, as illustrations of this paper.

From The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries by Salisbury, Stephen

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

Casts are first taken from the coins, in white plaster; these are photographed, and the photograph printed by the heliotype process of Messrs. Edwards and Kidd.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

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