SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving pie plate and earlyish 20th century I

and earlyish 20th century I believe

And a stand made just for it too

Really fun to look at and fun to have around

and there are traces of the powdered color all over it

SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving pie plate and earlyish 20th century IThis 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