Schmetterlinge: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Butterflies spillekins in addition to their collective

in addition to their collective poise and intense straight ahead stares

I'd bet this thing will last forever

Really a fantastic thing

made of walnut I believe

Schmetterlinge: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Butterflies spillekins in addition to their collectiveThis is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, beautifully executed ink and watercolor drawingone 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 volume on animal life. I find it, and all of them, just extraordinarily beautiful, and their amazing