Female Brook Trout Mermaid During the 14-day mission

During the 14-day mission

while winter has left its snowy mark on West Virginia (left of center)

Published in installments of 10 plates between 1899 and 1904

Plate 16 shown here

Poster for the New York Central System

Female Brook Trout Mermaid During the 14-day missionThis chromolithograph of a Female Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis.) was created by artist S. F. Denton (Sherman Foote) born in 1856 and died in 1937 Well known for his exquisite drawings of fish, birds, and mammals when he was commissioned for several years to illustrate the New York State Fish and Wildlife Annual Report, part of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State.