Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This print is one of fifteen chromolithographs that were included in the 1889-1890 folio "Sport or Fishing and Shooting" published by Bradlee Whidden of Boston and edited by A.C. Gould. These prints are based on watercolors that were commissioned for the publication, and illustrated by prominent American artists. Each folio illustration was accompanied by a single leaf of descriptive text followed by an account of the depicted sporting scene. The publication was advertised as having been reviewed for accuracy by a renowned group of anglers and hunters prior to printing.
- This print was originally titled and numbered on the text page as 3. Trout Fishing. Henry Sandham. Depicted is a fisherman standing in a stream fishing. The scene is set in a forest.
- The artist was Henry Sandham (1842-1910), a Canadian born illustrator and artist of hunting and fishing scenes.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- publisher; copywriter
- Bradlee Whidden
- lithographer
- Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
- artist
- Sandham, Henry
- date made
- 1889
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 18 in x 12 in; 45.72 cm x 30.48 cm
- Object Name
- chromolithograph
- Object Type
- Chromolithograph
