SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#2) unpainted lead it’s pure gorgeousness—first in terms

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

and with its big knobs on either end

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

I also found a record of her listed as a school teacher in Springfield Vermont in 1870

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#2) unpainted lead it’s pure gorgeousness—first in termsThis 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