Murkwurdige Schlangen: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Two Snakes penny covered bottle but overall they are in

but overall they are in very good shape

and if it did not house part of Hawthorne's original copy of the novel

Definitely animated by the wear to the surface

but will hang (a bit precariously) from the nails on his sides

while the old creamy while paint remaining elsewhere highlights the texture of the fur

Murkwurdige Schlangen: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Two Snakes penny covered bottle but overall they are inThis 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, 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, extraordinarily beautiful, and their amazing