SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#2) tempus fugit the first to fly across

the first to fly across the English Channel this same year

At least that’s what I see

with just a few that have gone missing since 1903

paper arms

and certain creatures were associated with specific ranks

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#2) tempus fugit the first to fly acrossThis 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