Murkwurdige Schlangen: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Two Snakes penny covered bottle Plus an introduction that tells

Plus an introduction that tells the history of La Florida—located on a “glorious corner of Havana” previously occupied by “The Silver Pine” and now transformed into “a refuge of Art and Poetry”

others painted and/or carved

but will hang (a bit precariously) from the nails on his sides

One tiny knick in the the paper along the right edge

Put this guy on a slightly inclined surface get him walking

Murkwurdige Schlangen: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Two Snakes penny covered bottle Plus an introduction that tellsThis is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, beautifully executed ink and watercolor drawing on watermarked laidone of four watercolors I purchased from a German seller, which appear all done by the same person, 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 zoological volume. I find it, and all of them, extraordinarily beautiful, and their amazing