THE PIKE print (Lucius Lucius)

These beautiful unbound portfolio chromolithographs, are from the 1902 “Fisheries, Game and Forests Commission” 7th annual report of the State of New York.

The artist, Sherman Foote Denton (1856 -1937) born in Massachusetts, was only 3 years-old when began to paint and study fish. This early attraction developed in later years to Denton revolutionising the way fish were mounted and preserved to retain their original vibrant colours. As part of this process, he produced watercolour paintings of the fish he collected from all over the world.

“These colour drawings have been reproduced so exactly, that no coloured figures of fishes in existence exceed them for truthfulness or beauty of execution.” The Commissioners