Goldfish variety; Carassius auratus. (Previously named Telescope carp; Cyprinus Buphthalmus.) Illustration signed RN (Richard Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's 鈥楾he Naturalist's Miscellany;' London; 1796. 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 鈥榖otanic 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).