Definitions for "Calotype"
Keywords:  talbot, talbotype, fox, iodide, gallic
A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.
First practical form of photography on paper, introduced in 1841 as an improvement of Fox Talbot's photogenic drawing and talbotype.
(Talbotype) Photographic print made from a paper negative by the process invented by Henry Fox Talbot in 1840 and used until the early 1850s; the image often lacking in clarity as the paper fibers tended to show through.