SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving pie plate typewritten provenance

typewritten provenance

I'll never say now to a pretty

I love the fact that making these reflected an increasing popular interest in the natural world and also a greater freedom for women and girls--an excuse to venture out on their own toward to the sea

Really fun to look at and fun to have around

Childs in 1868

SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving pie plate typewritten provenanceThis is a striking hand colored Shaw and Nodder copper engraving of a Autumnal Acarus or Harvest bug, also known as a Scarlet mite, the larval stage of the Trombicula species of mites. Recently, I found a couple of Shaw and Nodder engravings that had been enhanced with additional watercoloring and annotation by a holder of them in the first half of the 19th century; that is not the case here, but those heightened my awareness of Shaw and Nodder