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Antique fish and game prints from the "Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York"

Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., New York and Albany: 1899

Original antique prints from the year 1899

For 1899 Denton Fish and Ridgway Birds, click here

For Denton fish and wildlife 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

(also offered below are black and white offset lithograph prints from the same publication)

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.
Sherman Foote Denton (1856-1939) 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.
 
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.
A SAD SIGHT
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
SHEET SIZE: APPROX. 11.25 X 8.25 INCHES
REF 1

A SAD SIGHT

Damp stain upper edge, paper crinkle lower left of image
(Opposite side is blank)
$10
'JIGGING' MACKEREL
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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'JIGGING' MACKEREL

Damp stain upper edge, age toning of paper
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
HOW'S THIS FOR A PAIR?
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
SHEET SIZE: APPROX. 11.25 X 8.25 INCHES
REF 3

HOW'S THIS FOR A PAIR?
Damp stain upper edge, age toning
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
A DAY FOR BLINDSTHE ALARM
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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A DAY FOR BLINDS
THE ALARM
Damp stain upper edge, age toning of paper
(Opposite side is blank)
$10
LARGE-MOUTH BLACK BASS
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 5

LARGE-MOUTH BLACK BASS
age toning of paper
(Opposite side is blank)
$15
HOLDING HARD
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
SHEET SIZE: APPROX. 11.25 X 8.25 INCHES
REF 6

HOLDING HARD
typical age toning
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
HOLDING HARD
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
SHEET SIZE: APPROX. 11.25 X 8.25 INCHES
REF 7

YOUNG BROOK TROUT...
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
DISEASED FISH WITH ULCERS
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 8

DISEASED FISH WITH ULCERS
typical age toning, dog-ear crease upper left corner
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
SPORES OF LYMPHOSPORIDIUM...
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 9

SPORES OF LYMPHOSPORIDIUM...
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
SECTION THROUGH THE TESTIS...
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 10

SECTION THROUGH THE TESTIS...
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
SPORES IN THE LYMPH...
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 11

SPORES IN THE LYMPH...
typical age toning, brown spot upper left
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
SECTION THROUGH THE TESTIS...
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
SHEET SIZE: APPROX. 11.25 X 8.25 INCHES
REF 12

SPORES IN THE LYMPH...
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
MASS OF SPORES...
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 13

MASS OF SPORES...
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
SECTION OF MUSCLE...
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 14

SECTION OF MUSCLE...
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
A POOL IN THE RAQUETTE RIVER
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 15

A POOL IN THE RAQUETTE RIVER
typical age toning
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
WHERE THE BROOK LAMPREYS SPAWN
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 16

WHERE THE BROOK LAMPREYS SPAWN
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
WHERE THE BROOK LAMPREYS SPAWN
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
SHEET SIZE: APPROX. 11.25 X 8.25 INCHES
REF 17

WHERE THE BROOK LAMPREYS SPAWN
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
WHERE THE LAKE LAMPREYS SPAWN
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 18

WHERE THE LAKE LAMPREYS SPAWN
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
WHERE THE YOUNG LAMPREYS LIVE
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 19

WHERE THE YOUNG LAMPREYS LIVE AND THE OLD LAMPREYS DIE
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
WHERE THE YOUNG LAMPREYS LIVE
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 20

WHERE THE YOUNG LAMPREYS LIVE AND THE OLD LAMPREYS DIE
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
LIFE AND DEATH
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 21

LIFE AND DEATH
typical age toning
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
[BULLHEADS, HORNED POUT, ETC.]
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 22

[BULLHEADS, HORNED POUT, ETC.]
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
IN THE SHADOW OF THE PINES
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 23

IN THE SHADOW OF THE PINES
typical age toning, paper loss lower right
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
NESTS OF THE DOGFISH
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 24

NESTS OF THE DOGFISH
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
NESTS OF THE DOGFISH
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 25

NESTS OF THE DOGFISH
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$5
TEMPTATION
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 26

TEMPTATION
typical age toning
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
THE EEL SPEARERS
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 27

THE EEL SPEARERS
typical age toning
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
A GOOD STRING
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 28

A GOOD STRING
typical age toning
(Opposite side is printed)
$5
FISHING FOR WEAKFISH BOUNDING A SCHOOL
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 29

FISHING FOR WEAKFISH

BOUNDING A SCHOOL
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$10
PARTRIDGE COVER
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 30

PARTRIDGE COVER
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$10
QUIET COVER
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Darvill's digital watermark does not appear on actual antique print.)
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REF 31

IN QUIET COVER
typical age toning
(Opposite side is blank)
$10

(more black and white prints from 1899)

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(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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