Brook Trout Print
Brook Trout Print
Size
12 × 18 in overall, unframed. The plate sits on an ivory sheet with a border of about an inch, so it fits a standard ready-made frame of the same size, with or without a mat.
Printed on 189 g/m² (10.3 mil) enhanced matte paper.
Want it ready to hang? The same plate comes framed in Black or Red Oak.
Female and male, the male in autumn spawning colours with his hooked jaw and orange belly.
The print
- The full plate with its name, legend and credits, re-rendered from the source scan at print size, not enlarged from a shirt file.
- Restored from a library scan of the original book; nothing redrawn.
- Keep out of direct sunlight; a frame with glass or acrylic keeps it clean.
Shipping & production
Each print is printed for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days, and ships on its own (separate from any shirts or framed prints in the same order). Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your print arrives damaged or misprinted, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every print is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Plate 003
From the book
- Species
- Salvelinus fontinalis
- As named in the book
- Brook Trout; Speckled Trout.
- Artist
- S. F. Denton
- Book
- Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York, 1897
“always attractive because of its beauty and grace of movement.”
Then and now
Not a true trout at all, but a char, a cousin of the lake trout and Arctic char.
Field notes
It isn't actually a trout. It's a char.
Denton painted both fish: the female in her everyday colors, and the male in autumn spawning dress, his belly flushed orange and his lower jaw hooked into a kype. Both carry the classic marks: pale wormlike tracks across an olive back, red spots ringed in blue, and lower fins edged white, then black, then red.
It isn't a trout at all. The brook trout is a char, kin to the lake trout and the Arctic char. Its name, fontinalis, means "of springs," and that's where it lives: cold, clean headwaters along the Appalachians from Georgia to Maine and north into Canada.
That need for cold, clean water has made it a measure of a stream's health, and it's why the fish has lost ground. In the Chesapeake Bay drainage alone, brook trout are gone from an estimated 60 percent of their historical range.