Developing a fish hatchery, as seen in a pen-and-ink montage of four scenes, original artwork prepared for an advertisement or to illustrate a periodical story about the enterprise

by Fish Hatchery, Drawing

$450 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

NP: np, nd 1880s? . Well executed pen-and-ink montage on art paper, with washes in gray and black and white highlighting, the whole 16 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, with four scenes: the bottom third is a rendering of a fish farm, with buildings, sluices, and holding ponds; the drawing in the upper left shows a couple and a single lady sitting on benches under trees beside a water-lily covered pond, the upper right drawing pictures three workers at a hatchery trough,

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