SOLD Four Snakes, Exquisite c. 1840s Zoological German Ink and Watercolor Drawing toy animal slings and tourniquets

slings and tourniquets

and then the Masonic square and compass inlaid into the face

I am  confident it is an example of early American Southwest Pueblo pottery

making great use of the grain of the wood

to the eye

SOLD Four Snakes, Exquisite c. 1840s Zoological German Ink and Watercolor Drawing toy animal slings and tourniquetsOne more of these from a group of four purchased from a dealer in Germany. This is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, gorgeously executed ink and watercolor drawing, c. 1840s I believe. Whether made in advance of, or after, an engraving for a zoological volume I am not certain (though I'd guess the former) whatever the case, quite spectacular, and with the execution amplifying a sense of wonder at creatures that already seem quite