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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Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., New York and Albany: 1896
Original prints from the year 1896
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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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AMERICAN LOBSTER
(Homarus Americanus) |
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THE COMMON EDIBLE OR BLUE CRAB
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BROWN TROUT (Salmo fario).
Caught in Caledonia Creek...
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ROUND WHITEFISH OR ADIRONDACK FROST FISH (Coregonus quadrilaterlus)
CISCO OR LAKE HERRING (Coregonus Artedi)
[see tear in left margin] |
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THE WHITE PERCH (Roccus Americanus)
THE YELLOW PERCH (Perca Americana)
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STRIPED BASS OR ROCKFISH (Roccus lineatus)
THE SAUGER OR SAND PIKE (Stizostedium Canadense)
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THE CRAY-FISH (Cambarus affinis) |
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STEEL-HEAD TROUT (Salmo Gairdneri). ADULT.
RED-THROAT TROUT (Salmo mykiss). ALASKAN FORM.
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DEER HOUND WITH A RECORD |
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TYPES OF ADIRONDACK DEER HOUNDS |
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A GROUP OF DISTINGUISHED SPORTSMEN |
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ANTLERS IN THE VELVET |
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TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ANTLERS |
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BURR OF DEER'S ANTLER SHED IN THE WOODS |
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WOODCOCK NESTING |
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