SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) handmade story book please note it at checkout

please note it at checkout

Very strong color and bold black

mounted to archival board with archival tape--and would leave it just as is unless one has a terrific period frame lying around

Each 7" x 5 1/8" and in good condition

iron/steel rather than brass

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) handmade story book please note it at checkoutThis 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