Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A photomechanically produced plate for pictures or type made by exposing a gelatin film under a negative, hardening it with chrome alum, and printing directly from it.
- noun The process of producing a heliotype.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To produce a heliotype picture of.
- To practise heliotypy; produce a picture by direct impression in printing-ink.
- noun A picture or print produced by the process of heliotypy; also, the process itself.
- Of or pertaining to heliotypy or its processes or result. Also
heliotypic.— Heliotype process. Seeheliotypy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
picture obtained by the process ofheliotypy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Page v colored, heliotype, phototype, half-tone and other plates and numerous figures.
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It is plainly shown in the heliotype which accompanies Professor RAU'S work on the Palenque cross, though not so well in our Fig. 48.
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I have, therefore, had six of them1 (Plate I.) reproduced by the heliotype process.
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[4] I am greatly indebted to Dr. Duchenne for permission to have these two photographs (figs. 1 and 2) reproduced by the heliotype process from his work in folio.
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This ancient Peruvian funeral urn, well characterized in the heliotype which accompanies this article, is one of the oldest distinct and well authenticated representations of a labor case which is extant.
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-- Photo engraving or photo lithographic or heliotype copies of standard works of art.
Plans of Buildings, Rules and Regulations Governing Exhibitors at the North Carolina State Exposition: Raleigh, N.C., October 1st to October 28th, 1884: Also Premium Lists of the North Carolina Agricultural Society and the North Carolina Industrial Association North Carolina State Exposition 1884
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His eye met a beautiful heliotype, standing on the bureau in the light of the lamp; from the middle of the room, in a motionless posture, Kranitski gazed at the face of the woman, which was enclosed in an ornamented frame.
The Argonauts Eliza Orzeszkowa 1876
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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.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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Casts are first taken from the coins, in white plaster; these are photographed, and the photograph printed by the heliotype process of
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 John Ruskin 1859
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As the map of 1632 has often been referred to in this work, we have introduced into this volume a heliotype copy.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601
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