V&A
Collotype
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Child bringing  bouquet to woman, plate 465 from 'Animal Locomotion'
Zoom inChild bringing bouquet to woman, plate 465 from 'Animal Locomotion', 1887
Eadweard Muybridge, 1830 - 1904
Collotype
The collotype process was used between about 1870 and 1920. A glass plate was coated with sensitised gelatin and exposed under a negative. Light passed through the negative would harden the gelatin on the glass plate. The unexposed gelatin would absorb the water when washed and the exposed would repel it. The washed glass plate would be coated with ink, adhering to the exposed gelatin and printed onto fine paper.
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