A set of four copperplate engravings from 'The Naturalist's Miscellany' Shaw & Nodder, framed and glazed,
1790-1813
25cm x 28cm
These prints come from 'The Naturalist's Miscellany', a 24-volume monumental compendium jointly created by the British naturalist George Shaw and a botanical artist Frederick Polydore Nodder, the "Botanical Painter to Her Majesty."
Published between 1790 and 1813, it is highly celebrated for its exquisite, hand-colored copperplate engravings of flora and fauna. The work reflects the era's fascination with global exploration and discovery, providing scientific illustrations with truly artistic value, drawn directly from life.
Some examples offered the first glimpse on the newly-discovered spices to the British public. The set contains an image of and animal initially wrongly identified as a link between the anteater and the porcupine and so given the name "porcupine anteater". To create this plate, Nodder probably copied a field sketch sent to England of a strange creature observed and drawn by a Port Jackson Painter around 1791. After in 1802 a specimen arrived in Britain for dissection by Everard Home, Shaw realised this animal was allied to the equally strange duck billed platypus - an egg laying mammal or monotreme.
The group can be broken into pairs or individual prints. Please contact me for more details.
A set of four copperplate engravings from 'The Naturalist's Miscellany' Shaw & Nodder, framed and glazed,
1790-1813
25cm x 28cm
These prints come from 'The Naturalist's Miscellany', a 24-volume monumental compendium jointly created by the British naturalist George Shaw and a botanical artist Frederick Polydore Nodder, the "Botanical Painter to Her Majesty."
Published between 1790 and 1813, it is highly celebrated for its exquisite, hand-colored copperplate engravings of flora and fauna. The work reflects the era's fascination with global exploration and discovery, providing scientific illustrations with truly artistic value, drawn directly from life.
Some examples offered the first glimpse on the newly-discovered spices to the British public. The set contains an image of and animal initially wrongly identified as a link between the anteater and the porcupine and so given the name "porcupine anteater". To create this plate, Nodder probably copied a field sketch sent to England of a strange creature observed and drawn by a Port Jackson Painter around 1791. After in 1802 a specimen arrived in Britain for dissection by Everard Home, Shaw realised this animal was allied to the equally strange duck billed platypus - an egg laying mammal or monotreme.
The group can be broken into pairs or individual prints. Please contact me for more details.
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