Wunderbare Fische: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of "Wonderful Fish" hooks Scrapes and scuffs and paint

Scrapes and scuffs and paint loss around the edges

he's got incised round eyes and incised dots for whiskers

and also I think a couple of small white marks that I did not notice when shooting but which rubbed right off afterwards

and a series of drawings created by Calder to accompany them

Structurally sound and in very good shape

Wunderbare Fische: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of "Wonderful Fish" hooks Scrapes and scuffs and paintThis is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, beautifully executed ink and watercolor drawing on watermarked laidone 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 zoological volume. I find it, and all of them, just extraordinarily beautiful, and