Lot Essay
These Transparency prints when held up to the light or back lit become alive with dramatic effect
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After The Hon. Mrs Yates
Transparency Prints: A Cottage on Fire and Smugglers
stipple engravings, part printed in colour and finished by hand, published 1799 by Edward Orme, on J Whatman wove paper, watermarked 1794, with margins some tears a creases
S. 16 x 22in (40.5 x 57cm)
with View of Mount Vesuvius, The Mars and the L'Hercule, A Cavern, Sir Bertrand in the Haunted Castle, The Tomb of Juliet and 6 other small scenes on one sheet, all of a similar nature, also published by Edward Orme
(unframed) (8)
Transparency Prints: A Cottage on Fire and Smugglers
stipple engravings, part printed in colour and finished by hand, published 1799 by Edward Orme, on J Whatman wove paper, watermarked 1794, with margins some tears a creases
S. 16 x 22in (40.5 x 57cm)
with View of Mount Vesuvius, The Mars and the L'Hercule, A Cavern, Sir Bertrand in the Haunted Castle, The Tomb of Juliet and 6 other small scenes on one sheet, all of a similar nature, also published by Edward Orme
(unframed) (8)