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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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 Mindeleff, Cosmos
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
Illustrated by the heliotype process, 8vo, 6s. 6d.
From A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy by Bennett, Alexander Hughes
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
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 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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