Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A printing process employing a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced.
- noun A print made by this process.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A photomechanical process by which prints in greasy ink are obtained from a gelatin film used as a printing-surface.
- noun A print from a photographically prepared film of gelatin upon a glass or metal plate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid; also, the process of making such prints. According to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A
dichromate -basedphotographic process formerly used for large-volumemechanical printing . - noun countable An
image produced by this process.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors
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Examples
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The earliest is Edweard Muybridge's "Plate 480 from 'Animal Locomotion,' 1887," a collotype of a nude child climbing stairs.
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Williams 'version is printed along with a collotype of Grotius' manuscript.
Hugo Grotius Miller, Jon 2005
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I make a key drawing and then with glues and resin build it up into relief, like a collotype, but instead of printing it, I take a rubbing of it to transfer the outline (the technique is called "frottage"), which I then work up in various media and usually combine four to a frame.
Introduction 2003
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The miniature portrait was prettily reproduced as a frontispiece, there was a collotype copy of a page of the original manuscript, a contemporary print of Tomb Park, and a map of the campaign.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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That theory and practice are two very different things holds good in photography especially, and perhaps in no other branch of our art have so many theoretical formulæ been promulgated as in the collotype or
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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Petronius, text, notes, translation, illustrations, and even a collotype reproduction of the precious manuscript, that have been poured out upon us during the last twenty years.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Upon a big steel bed lies the little collotype block.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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As our readers are aware, we have had an opportunity of seeing collotype printing in operation in several European establishments of note, and have, from time to time, published in these columns our experiences.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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Six pages are reproduced in collotype at the end of the book.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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Berlin, 1866-1875; (2) the Bodleian manuscript of Jerome's version of the "Chronicle of Eusebius", reproduced in collotype with an introduction by John Knight Fotheringham, M. A.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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