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Book Illustration, The Naturalist’s Miscellany, vol. 1, The Fan Gorgonia or Venus’s Fan, plate 14
This is a book illustration. It was written by George Shaw and illustrated by Frederick Polydore Nodder and published by Nodder & Co.. It is dated 1789. Its medium is hand-colored copperplate engraving on paper. It is a part of the Smithsonian Libraries department.
Certain species of Gorgonian coral are commonly known as “sea fans” due to their branch-like structure that resembles the “V” form of a folding fan. Frederick Polydore Nodder and his son, Richard, provided colored illustrations for George Shaw’s multi-volume 18th-century nature encyclopedia, The Naturalist’s Miscellany. These works were a source of inspiration for artists seeking exotic and familiar patterns found in nature. The sea fan, with its distinctive web-like tracery of contrasting of solids and voids as well as its matrix of flowing curving lines, is an example of an object in nature that would intrigue, inspire, and be adapted by designers.
It is credited Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
![A book cover with a photograph of a man's face filling the surface, surrounded by a thin, white border. The man has brown hair and eyes, and his skin has been covered with a black biomorphic trellis pattern outlined in the peach of his skin color. The top of a white shirt and black jacket can also be seen. In the upper right is a silver starburst sticker, with the words: [STEFAN SAGMEISTER / THINGS / I HAVE LEARNED / IN MY LIFE / SO FAR], printed in black capital letters, followed by the words ['His work is fresh, personal and emotional' / The New York Times], in smaller black print.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/40128_82e801660d7d1670_n.jpg "Object ID #18794275")
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Its dimensions are
H x W: 24 × 15 cm (9 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
