Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus cyaneus), also known as the Superb Blue-wren or the Blue Wren. A songbird from Tasmania, originally named the Superb warbler (Motacilla superba).. Illustration signed by SN (George Shaw and Frederick Nodder).. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "Naturalist's Miscellany" (1790).. Frederick Polydore Nodder (1751~1801) was a gifted natural history artist and engraver. Nodder honed his draftsmanship working on Captain Cook and Joseph Banks' Florilegium and engraving Sydney Parkinson's sketches of Australian plants. He was made "botanic painter to her majesty" Queen Charlotte in 1785. Nodder also drew the botanical studies in Thomas Martyn's Flora Rustica (1792) and 38 Plates (1799). Most of the 1,064 illustrations of animals, birds, insects, crustaceans, fishes, marine life and microscopic creatures for the Naturalist's Miscellany were drawn, engraved and published by Frederick Nodder's family. Frederick himself drew
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