Delicate Vintage Watercolor of Dog Fish with Yolk Sac butcher block Orme and Brown in London

Orme and Brown in London

I really love the bird and would use it for tea bags

darker on one side toward the tail

with the hand-painted pipe rendered in relief

and is quite old (and heavy

Delicate Vintage Watercolor of Dog Fish with Yolk Sac butcher block Orme and Brown in LondonSince finding this vintage watercolor, which I just thought was amazing looking, I've learned that dogfish are thought to have the longest gestation period of any vertebrate (up to 24 months) and practice a form of live birth called yolk sac viviparity basically, the baby sharks hatch inside their mother and get nutrition from the attached yolk sac for an addition 17 19 months until being born as miniature sharks. So the watercolor here is of a