Nodder, Richard Polydore

3 volumes, folio (387 x 270mm.; the mounted sheets 230 x 160mm.), 236 drawings mounted on grey paper within a printed decorative border, the majority watercolour, a few pen and ink, several signed by the artist, later vellum-backed boards, occasional soiling

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Richard P. Nodder (fl. 1793–1820) was the son of Frederick Nodder, illustrator of The Naturalist’s Miscellany (see lot 246) and the Flora Rustica. It seems natural history illustration was a family business, as his wife Elizabeth and son Richard seem to have been responsible for later plates in The Naturalist’s Miscellany, attributed to “Nodder and Co.” Richard Nodder, according to ODNB, was “a gifted painter who exhibited a number of animal subjects at the Royal Academy and won the title botanic painter to George III”.