An essay on transparent prints, and on transparencies in general
An essay on transparent prints, published in London in 1807 by Edward Orme, a printmaker and author, as a technical treatise on backlit and transparent picture-making for practitioners and collectors. The plates show painted figures and a view of an illuminated window, and the colour-bar swatches suggest a guide to tinting translucent sheets; a designer might take from them the glow of light passing through coloured paper and the stacked, sequential layout of a how-to manual.
