SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving antique kindergarten plaiting paper Total size is 10" x

Total size is 10" x 7 3/4" x 1 1/4"

old loss to the interior right edge on frame

with a really great patina

When his coat is pulled up

and lined with wood inside

SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving antique kindergarten plaiting paper Total size is 10" xThis 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