SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) native doll stands steady on its own

stands steady on its own

which I am really loving for their finely etched designs

possibly quite early

Among my very favorite sorts of photos are ones like this that are as compelling as objects that have lived a rich life in the world as they are as images

purely decorative pieces around the top

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) native doll stands steady on its ownThis 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