Denton - The Brook Trout

The Brook Trout

Title:

The Brook Trout

Artist:

Denton, Sherman Foote (1856 - 1937)

Date:

1896

Medium:

Original Chromolithograph

Printer:

Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co.

Source:

First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York

Note:

Sherman Foote Denton (1856 - 1937), was an American watercolour artist, and author who created designs for various species of North American fish and wildlife. He worked for the United States Fish Commission at the Smithsonian Institute between 1896 and 1890. This original example of The Brook Trout was designed by Sherman Foote Denton for the "First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York", published in Albany in 1895. Plates from the First Report are the most desirable as they include most of the important varieties of game fish, including species as bass, pike trout, pickerel, mascalonge and salmon. No finer examples of American natural history art will be found that that of Denton.

During the nineteenth century the State of New York was a leader in the field of American natural history prints. The finest art was to be found in the annual reports of the commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests, published from 1895 to 1902. Each yearly report contained fifteen to twenty original chromolithographs of state wildlife and the artists commissioned to create the plates included such well known natural history artists as Louis Agassiz Fuertes, J. L. Ridgway and Denton. Approximately half of the plates were created by Sherman Foote Denton and although he contributed fine images of animals such as The Virginia Deer and The Mongolian or Ring-Necked Pheasant, the overwhelming majority of his art was fish. His work was rendered with such brilliance and artistry that (even today) these original chromolithographs of fish were referred to simply as 'Denton's'.

Chromolithography -- printing images by using a series of carefully registered tint stones -- became the most popular method for publishing everything from fine art and posters to post cards and advertisements during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Chromolithography proved to be of great benefit to botanists and zoologists. The almost infinite colour ranges derived from its multiple printings meant that, for the first time, a method of print-making could surpass hand colouring in its truth to nature. Unfortunately, the more economical advancements of photomechanical methods made this original and comles form of art all but obsolete by the end of the First World War.

Size:

5 1/2 X 10 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)

Matted with 100% Archival Materials

Condition:

Printed upon 19th century wove paper and with full margins as published in Albany by The State of New York in 1895. Apart from very slight scuffing this original chromolithograph is in excellent condition throughout and represents a superb, original example of the famous zoological art of Sherman Foote Denton.

Price:

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Original Chromolithograph desinged by Sherman Foote Denton.

The Brook Trout by Denton

View other original works of art published by the "First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York".

First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01.-		The Atlantic Salmon by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Available
02.-		The Brook Trout by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Sold
03.-		The Mongolian or Ring Necked Pheasant by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Sold
04.-		The Pickerel (From a Pond in Massachusetts) by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Available
05.-		The Pickerel (From The Upper Hudson River) by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Sold
06.-		The Pike by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Sold
07.-		The Pike Perch or Wall Eyed Pike by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Sold
08.-		The Small Mouthed Black Bass by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Sold
09.-		The Virginia Deer by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Sold
10.-		The White Fish by Sherman Foote Denton	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. for First Annual Report of the Commissioners Fisheries, Games & Forests of the State of New York	Sold

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