Spotted Dove(?): Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor, with Birds of Prey Notes on Reverse) antique lab glass Paper is not especially brittle

Paper is not especially brittle

I really love his baby blue and white painted sailor's outfit

Plus gold paint on the lower halves of each of the three interlocking locks

Rey's thing was redrawing the constellations to make them much more easily recognizable

very beautiful

Spotted Dove(?): Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor, with Birds of Prey Notes on Reverse) antique lab glass Paper is not especially brittleThis is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, beautifully executed ink and watercolor drawingone of four watercolors I purchased from a German seller, which appear all done by the same person, likely c. 1800. Photos do no justice to the real thing. I would guess they were the original drawings after which engravings were then made for a volume on animal life. I find it, and all of them, just extraordinarily beautiful, and their amazing