Northern Pike (Esox lucius) by John L. Petrie, 1898 national it resonates with a nation

it resonates with a nation looking outward—toward commerce

confident strokes suggest crags and scree

Vetustissimum Aegypti Emporium

inviting viewers to read emotion in color and cadence rather than in figures and scenery

The surrounding bodies of water—the Atlantic Ocean

Northern Pike (Esox lucius) by John L. Petrie, 1898 national it resonates with a nationThe Pike, Lucius lucius (1898) by John L. Petrie is a superb Victorian zoological illustration from The Fishes of North America, a late19thcentury series celebrated for presenting fish with exceptional natural accuracy. Produced as a chromolithographic plate in New York and associated with editor and author William C. Harris, this work embodies the eras devotion to Realismdocumenting nature truthfully and in lifelike color. Harris and Petrie traveled