April 17, 2024
Original Antique Chromolithograph Atlantic; Sea Herring by SF Denton 1907
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Sherman Foote Denton (1856-1937) is best known for the nature drawings that he was commissioned to illustrate for the US Fish Commission (later the US Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State.Born in Wellesley, Massachusetts , S.F. Denton was a multi-talented artist, scientist and skilled entrepreneur in business. From a family of naturalists, Sherman, along with his brothers William, Winsford and Shelley (a noted naturalist in his time) became famous at the 1900 Paris Exposition for their award-winning moth and butterfly collections. Sherman Denton was also renowned among the leading naturalists of his day for developing and patenting methods to preserve fish, butterflies and moths in a much more life-like state. These fish prints were done using heavy slate slabs, one for each color, a painstaking process but the best available at the turn of the century. Turning the prints into the light one can actuallty see the different layers of color. Please see all the scans to appreciate the fine color and detail in these fish. Presented here for your consideration is the "Sea Herring (Clupea Harengus Linnaeus)", another wonderfully colored Denton. This 8 x 11 inch 105 year old print is on heavy stock, in very good condition, very suitable for framing or a great gift for the sportsman. Please
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