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Samuel A. Kilbourne 1836 - 1881
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"The Bluefish"
Chromolithograph
14 x 20 inches
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"The Grayling"
Chromolithograph
14 x 20 inches
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"The Kingfish"
Chromolithograph
14 x 20 inches
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"The Mackerel"
Chromolithograph
14 x 20 inches
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"The Sole"
Chromolithograph
14 x 20 inches
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Samuel A. Kilbourne (b. 1836, d. 1881) was a native of Bridgetown, Maine. As a youth, he studied landscape painting, and in 1858 took up the painting of fish. His technical ability and keen eye made him a favorite illustrator for scientists and sportsmen alike. At the time of his death, he had just completed a series of illustrations for his book, Game Fishes of the United States. This work gave Kilbourne the opportunity to combine his two great strengths as a painter, landscapes and fish. The plates depict fish in the water eating or fighting a fisherman's line, or drawn up on a bank by the water. The landscapes contain beautiful details, foliage in the foreground and backgrounds of finely drawn trees or sailboats.
A chromolithograph is a color lithograph in which each of many colors is printed by a separate stone. The term ''chromolithograph'' is usually reserved for complex color lithographs that reproduce a painting, such as this example that attempts to capture the subtleties of Samual Kilbourne's painting. Chromolithographs usually make use of many (dozens) of lithographic stone each of which prints one color. Properly registering so many stones, so they are precisely aligned one atop the other, is a technical feat in itself.
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