Cyprinids and Salmonids: The Golden Age of European Freshwater Fish Illustration, 1902–1913
In the first decade of the twentieth century, two publications captured the freshwater fish of Europe with chromolithographic precision: Emil Walter’s Unsere Süßwasserfische (Stuttgart, 1913) and Our Country’s Fishes and How to Know Them (London, 1902). Together, they represent the golden age of the natural history identification plate — scientific instrument and aesthetic object in equal measure.