Explore: Collotype

Collotype is a gelatin-based photographic printing process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 to print images in a wide variety of tones without the

Original collotype Side view Front view Nude woman brings a cup of tea; another takes the cup and drinks (1884–86, printed 1887) Original collotype Front

repels oily ink. This category includes lithography, offset printing, and collotype. Invented in 1798 by Alois Senefelder, lithography was the only 19th-century

Albert Bierstadt photographed by his brother Edward Bierstadt. This collotype print was sent in 1895 to Elbridge T. Gerry. It may be the oldest surviving

Photo-crayotypes (also known as Chromatypes and Crayon Collotypes) were an artistic process used for the hand-colouring of photographs by the application

delicate nature of collotype lithography, as well as the necessity for multi-coloured prints (a feat difficult to reproduce with collotypes), and Klimt's own

including line etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithography, screenprinting and collotype. Many of his editions were issued as portfolios. After having an art piece

The Library and the Chapter at the cathedral, Collotype 1889

Collotype of Moses Montefiore, c. 1885–1900, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.

properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures