talbotype
nounEtymology From Talbot + type, after its inventor Henry Fox Talbot.
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[…]1867, The Art Journal, volume 8:
- Synonyms
- calotype
- Derived terms
- talbotypist