[From an Original Transparent Drawing by W. Orme.]
[Orme, Conduit Street, Excu.t. Sold & Published May, 1, 1799, by Ed.wd Orme, corner of George Street and Conduit Street, London, the first Inventor of Transparent Prints. Where may be had a great Variety, and every requisite for Drawing them.]
Oval mezzotint. Sheet trimmed as oval, at most 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9") Trimmed around image, losing all incriptions, album paper on verso obscuring transparent effect.
A night scene of a small castle with a square tower lit by a full moon, with a guard standing at a guardpost at the top of stairs. An old man and a child walk past, carrying a lantern.
[Ref: 67935]  £220.00