Wunderbare Fische: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of "Wonderful Fish" table cover and to Logan Drake

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1930s color litho cardboard glasses that you would just need to pop the eye holes out of to wear around

8” across at handle

Wunderbare Fische: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of "Wonderful Fish" table cover and to Logan DrakeThis is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, beautifully executed ink and watercolor drawing on watermarked laidone of four watercolors I purchased from a German seller, which appear all done by the same person, likely c. 1800. Photos do no justice to the real thing. I would guess they were the original drawings after which engravings were then made for a zoological volume. I find it, and all of them, just extraordinarily beautiful, and