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Inside of a Cottage in Buckinghamshire. [&] Outside of a Cottage in Buckinghamshire.
Designed by Edw.d Orme for his Essays on Transparencies. Engraved by C. Knight & H. Merke.
Published Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, London.
Pair of aquatints, printed in blue and brown. Sheets 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14½"). Trimmed within plates.
Two rustic scenes from 'An Essay on Transparent Prints and Transparencies in General' by Edward Orme, designed to be treated with varnish to give a translucent effect. 'Inside' the family sit by a fire, a child in a primitive 'baby bouncer', an open door looking out to a moonlit pigsty. 'Outside' a young girl stitches while receiving a suitor, a turkey looking on.
[Ref: 43480] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Chinese lanterns and partridge.]
Edw.d Orme delin. Scott sculp.
Published and Sold Jan.y 1. 1807 by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, London.
A transparency, coloured stipple with etching, the figures coloured on the reverse, the partridge and lanterns treated with varnish. Varnish on the partridge darkened, with slight cracking of the paper.
Two Chinese men standing on pedestals holding lanterns, a central image a trompe l'oeil partridge picture, pinned onto the background. Ex: collections of the Spencer Sisters and the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 40437] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
The Imperial Crown of State.
Drawn by Edwd. Orme. Engd. by J. Swaine.
Publish'd & Sold Jany. 1st. 1807, by Edwd. Orme, 59, Bond Stt. Corner of Brook Stt. London.
Rare transparency, hand coloured stipple and etching, with varnish and watercolour to verso. Sheet 300 x 235mm, 11¾ x 9¼". Tatty margins, one tear into plate at left.
From 'An Essay on Transparent Prints and Transparencies in General by Edward Orme' 1807, with instructive text in French and English and sixteen plates including engraved title-page; seven are hand-coloured transparency prints. After Edward Orme (1775 - 1848).
[Ref: 12585] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
An Independent Tribute To the Memory of The Right Hon. William Pitt. By W.T. Fitzgerald, Esq. January, 25, 1806. Scarce had the Tear that dew'd our Nelson's Hearse, Call'd forth The Tribute of each Patriot Verse, When Pitt, in Manhood's prime, resign'd his Breath. And join'd The Hero of his Choice in Death...Though plac'd where strong Temptations might allure, The Minister of England still was Poor----Do justice, Britons, to his spotless Mind, Who govern'd Kingdoms, left no Wealth behind!
Printed by J. Nichols, Earl's Court, Soho, for Edward Orme, Engraver, Printseller to the King and Royal Family, 59, Bond Street, London; and by all the Booksellers and Printsellers [c.1806].
Broadside; letterpress title; stipple and etched portrait printed from a separate plate, very large margins. Sheet 521 x 381mm. 20½ x 15". Slightly soiled.
A poem commemorating William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), who became the youngest ever Prime Minister in 1783, aged 24. The portrait inscribed 'Orme delin. Godby sculp.'
[Ref: 27279] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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