Spotted Dove(?): Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor, with Birds of Prey Notes on Reverse) antique lab glass 12" x 18" and in

12" x 18" and in overall good condition

Paper is not especially brittle

and i would imagine it was made by a young man as a gift for his sweetheart as things like this very often were

very beautiful

such that if one attached a wire handle to the hook on the backside s/he would dance with great alacrity

Spotted Dove(?): Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor, with Birds of Prey Notes on Reverse) antique lab glass 12" x 18" and inThis 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