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heliotype

American  
[hee-lee-uh-tahyp] / ˈhi li əˌtaɪp /

noun

heliotyped, heliotyping
  1. collotype.


heliotype British  
/ ˈhiːlɪəʊˌtaɪp /

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

"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 heliotype

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

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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 Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis

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 Edward Singleton Holden

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 Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis

The illustration is a beautiful heliotype from a fine photograph made by T. H.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

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 Stephen Salisbury

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 Martin Farquhar Tupper

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