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Jul 28, 2017 - Jul 29, 2017
Atlantic Salmon Model
John Tully (1862-1931) and Dhuie Tully (1862-1950)
Fochabers, Scotland, 1908
plaque is 16 by 48 1/4 in.
John Tully learned his trade by apprenticing for the master fish carver John B. Russell (1819-1893), one of the founding fathers of trophy fish carving. In the 1870s, Russell had a studio in Fochabers, a village on the east bank of the river Spey. He carved and painted life-size models of trophy salmon until his death in 1893. Tully married Russell’s daughter, Isabella "Dhuie" (1862-1950), and it was Dhuie that painted nearly all of her husband John’s carvings. John, the carver, and Dhuie, the painter, were one of the finest artisan duos to have ever worked in the carved and painted wood tradition.
A hand-painted trophy fish carving with the following gold-leaf lettered inscription, "Salmon 26 lbs. One of 12 killed by H. St. George, on the Creek Pool, St. John's River, Labrador, on the 20th June, 1908. The others weighed 8. 8. 10. 13. 13. 18. 18. 19. 21. 22. 22."
Minor touch-up to a couple fins and a small area behind the pelvic fin.
Literature: Ronald S. Swanson, "Fish Models, Plaques & Effigies," Far Hills, NJ, 2009, p. 54, plate 72, exact carving illustrated.
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