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Sherman Foote Denton
Fish of New
York (1)  These beautifully rendered and immensely popular chromolithographs are by Sherman F. Denton and cut from the various State of New York Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game, and Forests (FGF), appearing between 1895 and 1906, or are taken from the portfolio of prints published in 1902. The portfolio plates are slightly larger, but many critics regard the smaller FGF plates to be superior in quality. The actual images are the same size on the PORT and FGF plates. Plates from the Annual Reports may have some roughness along the edge where they were affixed to the volume. 9.5 x 12 inches (PORT) All prints are original. "These color-drawings have been reproduced so exactly that no colored figures of fishes in existence exceed them for truthfulness or beauty of execution. They are absolutely faithful reproductions [chromolithographs ] which can be said of no other work of this kind." --First Annual Fisheries, Game, and Forests Report. "The original chromolithographs . . . remain the standard by which all other fish art, past, and present, is judged."--Charles Steinhacker. |
