Spotted Dove(?): Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor, with Birds of Prey Notes on Reverse) antique lab glass very beautiful

very beautiful

Each 12 3/8" l x 4 1/8" w x 1/8" d

Rey's thing was redrawing the constellations to make them much more easily recognizable

Paper is not especially brittle

Spotted Dove(?): Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor, with Birds of Prey Notes on Reverse) antique lab glass very beautifulThis 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