daguerreotype
/duh-gair-uh-tahyp, -ee-uh-tahyp/US // dəˈgɛər əˌtaɪp, -i əˌtaɪp //UK // (dəˈɡɛrəʊˌtaɪp) //
瓦格纳摄影术,瓦格纳,瓦格纳摄影,蜡像
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- : a picture made by this process.
v.有主动词 verb
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da·guerre·o·typed, da·guerre·o·typ·ing.
- : to photograph by this process.
Examples
We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.
Robert Douglass, Jr., for many years, has kept a study and gallery of painting and daguerreotype in the city of Philadelphia.
As I have seen a daguerreotype from a picture painted when he was seventeen, I can give some sort of answer to this question.
It renders the general outlines of the original with almost the fidelity of a daguerreotype.
She had placed it in the inner gilt rim of an old daguerreotype, which set it off very nicely.
And all this while the picture lay upon the bureau—the square, old-fashioned daguerreotype, which Katy shrank from opening.
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