Orme's Pocket sketch book , [1799]
- Title(s):
- Orme's Pocket sketch book : containing studies from nature : to consist of landscape, figures, animals, &c. &c. : to be continued in numbers : price 2s. 6d. each in black and 5s. in colours : 12 numbers will form one pocket volume.
- Additional Title(s):
- Pocket sketch book
- Published/Created:
- London : Published and sold by Edwd. Orme ..., [1799]
- Physical Description:
- v. : all ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsNC735 .O69 1799+ set 1 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]Rare Books and ManuscriptsNC735 .O69 1799+ set 2 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/582235
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Title from engraved title page to part number 1.
With aquatint and stipple-engraved plates, after William Orme.
Date from plates.
BAC : British Art Center has two sets of four plates, cased together . Set 1 includes the engraved title to part number 1 (a 5th plate); engravings are hand-colored. Set 2 is uncolored, and lacks any title. Its first engraving varies from that in the first set (and lacks an imprint); the three remaining engravings are the same in both sets. - Subject Terms:
- Orme, Edward, 1775-1848 -- Publisher.Stipple engraving -- Specimens -- 1799.Stipple engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1799.
- Form/Genre:
- Aquatints -- 1799.
Drawing books.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1799. - Export:
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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