SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#2) unpainted lead and with a dramatic crook

and with a dramatic crook

heavy iron ones

it’s pure gorgeousness—first in terms of the structure

There is a bit of a pink substance (almost like pink eraser) caught in between nails here and there

The name of the game is trying to collect a complete outfit while also having a nudist in hand

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#2) unpainted lead and with a dramatic crookThis feels completely otherworldly to me and I can't stop looking at it. The copperplate engraving is by Fredrick Nodder, from George Shaw's renowned The Naturalist's Miscellany (1789 1813; this plate 1790) but it is the hand coloring that makes this one especially special, and singular, here not one but two iterations of applied watercolor. I know from the dealer I purchased this from that the specific volume it came from featured annotated endpapers