tintype

noun

Definition of tintypenext
as in daguerreotype

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Recent Examples of tintype The image could be a tintype from a late-Victorian play about a confidence man who preys on wealthy young widows. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025 The tintype format was introduced by chemist and physicist Hamilton Smith in 1856. — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 Also on display is a tintype of an unidentified African American woman, taken by an unidentified artist around 1865. — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 This is especially evident as the show builds from format to format—including tintypes, ambrotypes, paper prints, and stereographs, each an improvement on the last where the maker’s control was concerned. — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tintype
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tintype
  1. daguerreotype
  2. sepia
  3. photograph
  4. photo
  5. monochrome
Noun
  • Robert Ebendorf’s 2010 Untitled Daguerreotype Brooch combines a daguerreotype with copper, plastic, and a crab claw, while his Birthday Necklace incorporates repurposed jewelry and toy railroad tracks.
    — Livia Caligor, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The Art Nouveau furniture, the 18th-century Worcester porcelain, and the photography collection (with daguerreotypes, Civil War albumen prints, 20th-century images, and portraits) all beg for your attention.
    — Carolanne Griffith Roberts, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of daguerreotype
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  • Tuscan kitchens were all warm colors, shades of brown, images that were maybe a bit sepia toned.
    — Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The feathers on her back were of mottled sepia tones, and those on her belly were rusty brown and painterly white.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of sepia
Noun
  • Constantin Brâncuși’s marble-and-limestone sculpture L’oiseau (1923/1947), for example, commands the space, while Wolfgang Tillmans’s 2022 photograph tree filling window imitates an open window in a closed space.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The gathering grew into an annual event where mothers brought daughters, children walked the runway and participants received professional photographs at no charge.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of photograph
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  • Zhang then is said to have sent a Chinese official information related to the surveillance, including photos, videos and license plate information from the target's vehicles.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Cagle added that the photo showed a confident, brilliant, brave, polite, gracious, kind and gentle young man.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of photo
Noun
  • The Spanish royal opted for a monochrome ensemble, wearing black tapered trousers with a single-breasted blazer.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • That exhibition featured works by Heu Hwang, Kwon Young-woo, Lee Dong-youb, Park Seo-bo, and Suh Seung-won—a group of artists generally considered to have launched Korean monochrome painting, or dansaekhwa, as a movement.
    — Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of monochrome

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