SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving antique kindergarten plaiting paper old loss to the interior

old loss to the interior right edge on frame

and it loos like the branch was likely re-glued to the wall mounting piece at some point with a little glue showing

I have an artist-dealer friend in Maine who has been the source of a series of very wonderful and unusual stereoviews--the dragonflies and Great Storm of 1870 hail stones last week

and lined with wood inside

I have a hard time not grabbing these old treen darning eggs when I find them

SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving antique kindergarten plaiting paper old loss to the interiorThis 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