Sacramento Pike (Ptychocheilus oregonensis) by John L. Petrie, 1898 peru Southampton

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the National Maritime Museum

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Sacramento Pike (Ptychocheilus oregonensis) by John L. Petrie, 1898 peru SouthamptonJohn L. Petries The Sacramento Pike, Squaws fish or Yellow belly, Ptychocheilus oregonensis (1898) captures a native North American fish with the crisp authority of Victorian scientific art. Made for William C. Harriss celebrated The Fishes of North America, Petries chromolithograph reflects the late19thcentury passion for cataloguing wildlife with painterly finesse and anatomical precision. The specimen is shown in profile against a pale ground, its