SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#2) unpainted lead I'll also be glad to

I'll also be glad to customize however you might wish --- including putting a physical gift certificate in the mail to the recipient along with a personal note using your words

and with a dramatic crook

it’s pure gorgeousness—first in terms of the structure

and with its big knobs on either end

Certainly a perfect gift for one’s love

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#2) unpainted lead I'll also be glad toThis 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