Musée No:218.007 Size:A5 - 210mm x 148mm George Kearsley Shaw (1751 –1813)

George Kearsley Shaw (1751 –1813) was an English botanist and zoologist

the Kyoto-based artist came from a samurai family and studied with at least two different teachers—one a Tosa-school painter

Cox wrote of Paris that there was "so much artistic material here that one might almost be content to stay here and paint for years…” After his return from Paris

color stipple engravings

Christiana Carteaux

Musée No:218.007 Size:A5 - 210mm x 148mm George Kearsley Shaw (1751 –1813)Black Stork in a Landscape Date: 1780 The distinctive white neck feathers, purple streaked wings, and red tinged beak of this bird identify it as a Woolly Necked Stork. Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2001