Talbotype

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An early photograph produced on paper coated with silver iodide.

    "Talbotypes may become of the highest value to travelling artists; they will save him the trouble of making hasty and imperfect sketches, and they will prevent the vexation subsequently arising from the omission of some bit of detail[…]"

Etymology

From Talbot + type, after its inventor Henry Fox Talbot.

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