Antique fish and game prints from the "Third 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
Blank verso
PLEASE CLICK ON THUMBNAIL IMAGES FOR AN ENLARGED VIEW.
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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Where the Gaffer comes in |
$20 |
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Constantia Hatchery |
$5 |
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Constantia Hatchery. Jars for Hatching Pike-Perch. |
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Taking Eggs from Pike-Perch at Constantia Hatchery |
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An Unexpected Opportunity |
$8
(tear in lower left corner, about 1 inch into image area)
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An Ideal Trout Pool |
$20
(minor foxing in margins) |
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Caledonia Hatchery. Interior. |
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Caledonia Hatchery Looking Down Stream |
$10
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Caledonia Hatchery, Showing Stock Ponds |
$10
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Caledonia Hatchery, from below, looking upstream |
$10
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Up-stream view of Rogers Fishway on Susquehanna River at Binghamton |
$10
(minor foxing) |
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Down-stream view of Rogers Fishway on Susquehanna River, at Binghamton |
$10
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Original McDonald Fishway with water shut off, in Great Falls of the Potomac. |
$10
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Plan of Construction Rogers Fishway |
$10
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Sectional Elevation and Cross Section Improved Cail System Fishway |
$10
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From original study for fishway on River Vienne, France, by Marshall McDonald.
Plan and side elevation. |
$10
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Section of standard McDonald Fishway, showing manner of placing iron buckets. |
$5
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Plan of natural hatchery, with cross section and series of trout ponds |
$10
(minor foxing) |
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(COLOR LITHOGRAPHS OF FISH AND BIRDS)
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