SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving pie plate Solid color cotton fabrics for

Solid color cotton fabrics for the red and two shades of green rind and border

Childs in 1868

and earlyish 20th century I believe

looking at which feels to me akin to putting on a freshly pressed and starched cotton dress shirt

Great for all the time use

SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving pie plate Solid color cotton fabrics forThis is a striking hand colored Shaw and Nodder copper engraving of a Autumnal Acarus or Harvest bug, also known as a Scarlet mite, the larval stage of the Trombicula species of mites. Recently, I found a couple of Shaw and Nodder engravings that had been enhanced with additional watercoloring and annotation by a holder of them in the first half of the 19th century; that is not the case here, but those heightened my awareness of Shaw and Nodder