An early photographic printing process or a print produced by this method.
From Gillot (a name/brand) + -type (suffix meaning picture or photographic process, from Greek 'typos' = impression). Emerged in early-to-mid 19th century photographic history.
Like 'daguerreotype' and 'calotype,' gillotype was one of dozens of competing photographic processes in the 1800s—the winners became household names while the losers were forgotten by history.
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