talbotype
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Talbot + type, after its inventor Henry Fox Talbot.
Noun
[edit]talbotype (plural talbotypes)
- An early photograph produced on paper coated with silver iodide.
- 1867, The Art Journal[1], volume 8:
- 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 […]