Northern Pike (Esox lucius) by John L. Petrie, 1898 national confident strokes suggest crags and

confident strokes suggest crags and scree

it resonates with a nation looking outward—toward commerce

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The surrounding bodies of water—the Atlantic Ocean

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Northern Pike (Esox lucius) by John L. Petrie, 1898 national confident strokes suggest crags andThe Pike, Lucius lucius (1898) by John L. Petrie is a superb Victorian zoological illustration from The Fishes of North America, a late19thcentury series celebrated for presenting fish with exceptional natural accuracy. Produced as a chromolithographic plate in New York and associated with editor and author William C. Harris, this work embodies the eras devotion to Realismdocumenting nature truthfully and in lifelike color. Harris and Petrie traveled