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Two Catfish
Illustrators and printers have struggled with how best to represent the vibrant colours and unusual shapes of fish on the page. The invention of chromolithography presented a new way to print in colour, and this technique was quickly used to print…
Two First Nations Women at Fort Norman
Two First Nations women at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.
Two Loucheux Women at Fort McPherson
Two Loucheux women, pictured at Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.
Two Slavie First Nation Women with Baby
Two Slavie First Nations women at Providence, Northwest Territories, the younger of whom carries a small child in a sling on her back. They may represent three generations of the same family. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis'…
Two Tropical Fish
The plates in Sagra’s Peces [1853] are magnificently coloured, and the fish seem ready to swim off the page. Two species of Cuban fish are illustrated here, including the charismatic Flying Fish.