heliotypen.
/ˈhiːlɪəʊtʌɪp/ A picture obtained by printing from a film of gelatine which has been sensitized with bichromate of potash and exposed to light under a negative; also, the process by which such a picture is produced. Also attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > collotype and similar processes
heliotype1870
Woodbury1872
papyrotype1874
photogelatin1875
papyrograph1878
photo-collotype1878
Woodburytype1878
artotype1879
collotype1883
stannotype1883
papyrography1888
photomezzotype1888
photophane1888
chromocollotype1891
collography1891
photo-mezzo1896
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > collotype and similar processes > a print
heliotype1870
collotype1883
collograph-
1870 Echo 4 Nov. Art..presents its readers with four splendid heliotype pictures.
1874 W. de W. Abney Instruct. Photogr. (1886) xlii. 297 In the heliotype process a film of gelatine is prepared on a glass plate, from which it is stripped when dry, and printed in the ordinary manner.
1874 W. de W. Abney Instruct. Photogr. (1886) xlii. 303 The great secret of producing a good heliotype is to have first~rate rollers at command.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 188/2 The most important of the many modifications of the collotype process is the ‘heliotype’ invented by Ernest Edwards.
Derivatives
ˈheliotyped adj. produced by the heliotype process.
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1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 327 Heliotyped Drawings.
heliotypic adj. /-ˈtɪpɪk/ of or belonging to the heliotype process.
ˈheliotypy n. /-taɪpɪ/ the heliotype process.
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