Definition of "collotype" []

• A printing process employing a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced. Also called photogelatin process. (noun)
• A print made by this process. (noun)

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• "The earliest is Edweard Muybridge's "Plate 480 from 'Animal Locomotion,' 1887," a collotype of a nude child climbing stairs."
• "I make a key drawing and then with glues and resin build it up into relief, like a collotype, but instead of printing it, I take a rubbing of it to transfer the outline (the technique is called "frottage"), which I then work up in various media and usually combine four to a frame."
• "Williams 'version is printed along with a collotype of Grotius' manuscript."