Superb bird-of-paradise; Lophorina superba. Copied from Jacques Barraband's illustration for Francois Levaillant's 鈥楬istoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis;' 1801. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's 鈥楾he Naturalist's Miscellany' 1812. Most of the 1;064 illustrations of animals; birds; insects; crustaceans; fishes; marine life and microscopic creatures for the Naturalist's Miscellany were drawn by George Shaw; Frederick Nodder and Richard Nodder; and engraved and published by the Nodder family. Frederick drew and engraved many of the copperplates until his death around 1800; and son Richard (1774~1823) was responsible for the plates signed RN or RPN. Richard exhibited at the Royal Academy and became botanic painter to King George III.