cyanotype

photographic printing process using iron salts and producing an image in Prussian blue
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cyanotype

Summary

cyanotype is a photographic printing process[1]. cyanotype draws 799 Wikipedia views per month (photographic_printing_process category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • cyanotype is credited with the discovery of John Frederick William Herschel[3].
  • cyanotype's image is recorded as Anna Atkins algae cyanotype.jpg[4].
  • cyanotype's instance of is recorded as photographic printing process[5].
  • cyanotype's instance of is recorded as photographic process[6].
  • cyanotype's GND ID is recorded as 7623236-0[7].
  • cyanotype's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85015113[8].
  • cyanotype's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 137718580[9].
  • cyanotype's subclass of is recorded as direct positive process[10].
  • cyanotype's subclass of is recorded as iron process[11].
  • cyanotype's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 01187612[12].
  • cyanotype's Commons category is recorded as Cyanotypes[13].
  • cyanotype's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 70027[14].
  • cyanotype's start time is recorded as +1842-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • cyanotype's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01m_1t[16].
  • cyanotype's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300053260[17].
  • cyanotype's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 772[18].
  • cyanotype's product or material produced is recorded as cyanotype[19].
  • cyanotype's product or material produced is recorded as blueprint[20].
  • cyanotype's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21].
  • cyanotype's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/cyanotype[22].
  • cyanotype's different from is recorded as blue-dyeing[23].
  • cyanotype's uses is recorded as cyanotype paper[24].
  • cyanotype's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11byylfhw5[25].
  • cyanotype's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11j8g_fdq9[26].
  • cyanotype's Treccani ID is recorded as cianografia[27].

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Works and Contributions

cyanotype is credited with the discovery of John Frederick William Herschel[3].

Why It Matters

cyanotype draws 799 Wikipedia views per month (photographic_printing_process category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] cyanotype has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] cyanotype is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . vam.ac.uk. vam.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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