Wunderbare Fische: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of "Wonderful Fish" carved santo sweet self

sweet self

I'm not sure I'm ready for a large scale still life with dead game

weighs 1 lb 10 oz

which feels to me super 1950s and very contemporary at once

15 1/8” x 12 1/4” framed

Wunderbare Fische: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of "Wonderful Fish" carved santo sweet selfThis 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, likely 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, just extraordinarily beautiful, and