Antique fish and game prints from the "Fourth 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
some prints are blank verso but most have text and/or illustration on the back
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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SHEET SIZE: APPROX. 11.25 X 8.25 INCHES |
REF 1 |
A SAD SIGHT
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Damp stain upper edge, paper crinkle lower left of image |
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$10 |
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REF 2 |
'JIGGING' MACKEREL |
Damp stain upper edge, age toning of paper |
(Opposite side is printed) |
$5 |
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REF 3 |
HOW'S THIS FOR A PAIR? |
Damp stain upper edge, age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 4 |
A DAY FOR BLINDS
THE ALARM |
Damp stain upper edge, age toning of paper |
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$10 |
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REF 5 |
LARGE-MOUTH BLACK BASS |
age toning of paper |
(Opposite side is blank) |
$15 |
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REF 6 |
HOLDING HARD |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 7 |
YOUNG BROOK TROUT... |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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DISEASED FISH WITH ULCERS |
typical age toning, dog-ear crease upper left corner |
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$5 |
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SPORES OF LYMPHOSPORIDIUM... |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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SECTION THROUGH THE TESTIS... |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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SPORES IN THE LYMPH... |
typical age toning, brown spot upper left |
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REF 12 |
SPORES IN THE LYMPH... |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 13 |
MASS OF SPORES... |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 14 |
SECTION OF MUSCLE... |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 15 |
A POOL IN THE RAQUETTE RIVER |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 16 |
WHERE THE BROOK LAMPREYS SPAWN |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 17 |
WHERE THE BROOK LAMPREYS SPAWN |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 18 |
WHERE THE LAKE LAMPREYS SPAWN |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 19 |
WHERE THE YOUNG LAMPREYS LIVE AND THE OLD LAMPREYS DIE |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 20 |
WHERE THE YOUNG LAMPREYS LIVE AND THE OLD LAMPREYS DIE |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 21 |
LIFE AND DEATH |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 22 |
[BULLHEADS, HORNED POUT, ETC.] |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 23 |
IN THE SHADOW OF THE PINES |
typical age toning, paper loss lower right |
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$5 |
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REF 24 |
NESTS OF THE DOGFISH |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 25 |
NESTS OF THE DOGFISH |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 26 |
TEMPTATION |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 27 |
THE EEL SPEARERS |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 28 |
A GOOD STRING |
typical age toning |
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$5 |
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REF 29 |
FISHING FOR WEAKFISH
BOUNDING A SCHOOL |
typical age toning |
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$10 |
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REF 30 |
PARTRIDGE COVER |
typical age toning |
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$10 |
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REF 31 |
IN QUIET COVER |
typical age toning |
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$10 |
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(more black and white prints from 1899) |
(color Denton Fish, Ridgway Birds)
For more Denton fish and wildlife color prints from the year 1896, click here
For Denton fish and wildlife prints from the year 1898, click here
Similar antique fish and wildlife prints from 1904-1907 here |
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