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Description
Title: American Lobster, (Homarus Americanus) Male Upper side
Artist: Sherman F. Denton
Publication: Game Fish of New York State (portfolio size)
Date: NY 1902
Print Type: Chromolithograph
Condition: VG
Size: 12” x 9.5”
Code: A2212
Description: Sherman Foote Denton (1856 – 1939), artist and naturalist, worked for the U.S. Fish Commission at the Smithsonian Institute and developed a method of mounting fish that preserved their colors as in life. The State of New York Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission hired Denton to illustrate the various fish in their annual reports between 1895 and 1907. He created a series of fine colored game fish. Denton’s superb drawings were printed as chromolithographs, reproducing vividly the appearance of the live fish. Each annual report contained a series of 10 to 14 drawings various fish indigenous to New York State. In 1902 a portfolio edition of some 80 fish prints was published to document the heritage fish species of New York State containing many of the fishes published in annual reports from 1895 - 1901. The portfolio pages , (12” x 9.5”), are slightly larger than the annual report plates of 11” x 8”, however the images are all the same size.
This antique print in portfolio size, American Lobster, is in good condition with slight age toning of the page, the right edge show some wear and has one small (1/2") tear in upper margin, corners are slightly bumped.
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