SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) handmade story book I purchased this one from

I purchased this one from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley

I have not been able to get this drawing out of my mind

woven of ash splint I believe

where clearly it hung for many many years

the wooden cog wheel moves slats on each side

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) handmade story book I purchased this one fromThis 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