SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) native doll found together in an old

found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all

and the angled top

purely decorative pieces around the top

Among my very favorite sorts of photos are ones like this that are as compelling as objects that have lived a rich life in the world as they are as images

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) native doll found together in an oldThis 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 c. 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 volume it came from featured annotated endpapers