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[Sheepshead] – Historic Reproduction

[Sheepshead] — antique lithograph
[Sheepshead]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Sheepshead] comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few fish on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are as easy to recognize as the sheepshead, with its silver body, dark vertical bars, and human-like front teeth. This 1878 chromolithograph renders the fish in color, built up from a separate printing stone for each hue, a method widely used for natural history plates by the late 1870s. The name is often linked to those teeth, which look like a sheep's, and the fish has long been valued as a food fish and as a catch for anglers working around pilings and oyster reefs. Look closely at the fins and markings, the details naturalists relied on to tell species apart.

Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
Notes1878
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,063 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124100

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