Aquatint printed on thick wove paper.
Edition of 100.
Published by Georgetown Graphics Inc for the Print Collectors Club, Washington DC.
Signed and numbered in pencil.
Plate size: 7 1/2 x 14 1/8 inches.
The name orrery first appeared in 1713, according to the Oxford Universal Dictionary. It is named after Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery for whom one was made. It is a piece of mechanism devised to represent the motions of the planets around the sun by means of clockwork.
