SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving antique kindergarten plaiting paper with the Hard-A-Port sailor logo

with the Hard-A-Port sailor logo at center

When his coat is pulled up

Overall dimensions: 24" t x 18" w

with a few little worm holes as documented

SOLD Autumnal Acarus (Harvest Bug), 1790 Hand-colored Shaw & Nodder Copperplate Engraving antique kindergarten plaiting paper with the Hard-A-Port sailor logoThis 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