Talbotype
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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[…]"
Example
More examples"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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