sb. Also Talbot-type. [f. Talbot, name of the inventor + TYPE sb.] The process of photographing on sensitized paper, patented by W. H. Fox Talbot in 1841: = CALOTYPE; also, a picture produced by this process.
1846. Art-Union Jrnl., June, 143. In September 1840, Mr. Talbot discovered the process first called Calotype (but the name has since been changed by some of his friends into Talbotype).
1875. trans. Vogel’s Chem. Light, iv. 35. Thus the Talbot-type, which at first seemed hardly worth notice compared with the process of Daguerre,… ultimately took precedence of Daguerre’s.
1883. Hardwich’s Photogr. Chem. (ed. Taylor), 261. The original Talbotype process, in which the latent image is formed upon Iodide of Silver, produces, next to Collodion, the most stable image.
Hence Talbotype v., to photograph by this process.
1887. Frith, Autobiog., I. xx. 246. Photography, or as it was then [1852] called, Talbotyping, was tried.
