Antique fish and game prints from the "First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York"
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Sheet size: approximately 11.25 x 8.25 inches
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SOME CORNER/EDGE WEAR TO BE EXPECTED FOR THESE ANTIQUE PRINTS.
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Sherman Foote Denton (1856–1937), provided the watercolor illustrations for some 100 chromolithographs documenting various species of North American fish and a few of other wildlife for the State of New York Fisheries, Game, and Forest Commission's Annual Reports from 1895 to 1909. The State of New York illustrations are widely admired for their detail and color to this day. Denton was a Renaissance man: naturalist, traveler, artist, entrepreneur, collector, inventor and author. His interest in natural history encompassed not only fish, but butterflies and moths, insects, birds, fossils, freshwater pearls and gems. During the 1880s, he and his brothers went on trips to the Western U.S. and accompanied their father, a geologist, on an expedition to Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, where collected natural history specimens. Returning to the U.S., Denton worked as an artist for the United States Fish Commission at the Smithsonian Institute between 1896 and 1890, where he illustrated their reports and also developed and patented a method for mounting fish without losing the natural colors. He became the leading maker of fish models for collectors and museums such as the Smithsonian, the Field Museum in Chicago and the Agassiz Museum at Harvard. He also invented a method for mounting butterflies, and amassed the most important collection of freshwater pearls in the U.S. |
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References:
"Sherman Denton, Naturalist, Dead." Boston Herald American. June 25, 1937.
Steinhacker, Charles. "The Fish Prints of S.F. Denton." The American Fly Fisher.Vol. 20, No. 3. Summer 1994. |
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TAHOE TROUT
(Salmo Henshawi)
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RED THROAT BLACK SPOTTED OR ROCKY MOUNTAIN TROUT
(Salmo Mykiss, Walbaum.)
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possibly available from the 1898 edition here |
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THE RAINBOW TROUT
(Salmo Irideus) |
| $149.95 |
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THE BROWN TROUT (Salmo Fario) |
| $179.95 |
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THE CANADIAN RED TROUT
ADULT MALE
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THE ATLANTIC SALMON
(Salmo Salar) |
| $99.95 |
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THE WHITE FISH
(Coregonus Clupeiformis) |
| $89.95 |
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THE LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
(Micropterus Salmoides) |
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THE SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
(Micropterus dolomieu) |
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THE WHITE BASS
(Roccus Chyrsops, Rafinesque)
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see Denton fish prints from 1898 for possible availability |
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THE PIKE PERCH or WALL-EYED PIKE
(Stizostedium Vitreum) |
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THE MASCALONGE (Lucius Masquinongy. Mitch.)
From Chautauqua Lake
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THE PIKE
(Lucius Lucius. L.) |
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THE PICKEREL (Lucius reticulatus. Le Sueur.)
From the Upper Hudson River |
| $124.95 |
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THE SHAD
(Clupea Sapidissima) |
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LONG-EARED SUNFISH
(Lepomis Auritus)
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COMMON MACKEREL
(Scomber Scombrus) |
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THE SMELT
(Osmerus Mordax) |
| $89.95 |
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AMERICAN LOBSTER
(Homarus Americanus)
Male upper side
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THE VIRGINIA DEER
(Cariacus Virginianus) |
| $89.95 |
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THE MONGOLIAN or RING-NECKED PHEASANT
(Phasius Torquatus) |
| $149.95 |
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(black and white prints)
For Denton fish and wildlife prints from the year 1897, click here
For Denton fish and wildlife prints from the year 1898, click here
For Denton fish and wildlife prints from the year 1899, click here
For Denton fish and wildlife prints from the year 1902, click here
Similar antique fish and wildlife prints from 1904-1907 here |
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