Two hand-colored sunfish on a numbered plate – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Two hand-colored sunfish on a numbered plate in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Two hand-colored sunfish on a numbered plate
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Two sunfish are the focus here, rendered in hand-applied color on a plate bearing a number, which suggests it was one of a series of illustrated studies. Fish plates like this were common in natural history publications of the 18th and 19th centuries, when naturalists and printmakers worked to record and classify the wide variety of species being brought back from rivers, lakes, and seas. Coloring was usually done by hand after printing, so each example can differ slightly in tone and care. The numbering helped readers match a figure to its accompanying text, which makes this sheet a useful reminder of how illustration served as a working tool for science.
| Original scan | 1,140 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g05357_ |
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