autotype

American  

[aw-tuh-tahyp] / ˈɔ təˌtaɪp /

noun

1. facsimile.

2. Photography.

   1. a process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.

   2. a print made by this process.

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autotype British  

/ ˈɔːtəˌtaɪp, ˌɔːtəˈtɪpɪk /

noun

1. a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment

2. an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile

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Other Word Forms

• autotypic adjective
• autotypy noun

Etymology

Origin of autotype

First recorded in 1850–55; auto- ¹ + type

Example Sentences

The portrait you saw was the autotype which I lent to Mr. Richmond, and concerning which I wrote to him before leaving London, directing that it should be sent to you.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

Casts are first taken from the coins, in white plaster; these are photographed, and the photograph printed by the autotype process.

From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by Ruskin, John

Facsimiles are given in the well-known edition of the Psalter, which was photographed by the autotype process and published in London in 1873.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Mr. Swinburne, too, regrets the miscarriage of justice; the play to him is a tragedy, and should end tragically with the punishment of the "autotype of the huge national vice of England."

From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank

The surface of a drawing should be mate for autotype reproduction.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert