Schmetterlinge: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Butterflies modern servingware pretty much a perfect thing

pretty much a perfect thing as far as I am concerned

with several drawings and paintings of horses currently in the shop

with tissue paper still inside

I believe tin cutouts like this were sometime used as quilt templates

Schmetterlinge: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Butterflies modern servingware pretty much a perfect thingThis 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