Another Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1794 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Streaked Lophius Terrain red bowls with a loop at one

with a loop at one end of the case

but with more all of the metal points still in place and

3/4" thick

including  some lovely blue-green iridescence around head

I really love the intensity of his face

Another Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1794 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Streaked Lophius Terrain red bowls with a loop at oneA couple of weeks ago I purchased and quickly sold a pair of twice watercolored Shaw and Nodder 1790s engravings of wonderfully surreal looking sea anemones, then went back to the same seller this week to snap up one more from the same volume, this an equally surreal looking "Streaked Lophius." The hand colored copperplate engraving comes from George Shaw's renowned The Naturalist's Miscellany, with this plate dated 1794 but here it is the second