Poissons Fish

This vintage fish chart presents an array of species in the encyclopaedic tradition of nineteenth-century natural history illustration — each specimen carefully drawn, labelled, and arranged in a composition that balances scientific utility with visual pleasure. The fish are shown in profile against a clean ground, rendered in warm colour washes over precise engraved linework, with enough variety of form and scale to make the page feel genuinely dynamic. The overall arrangement has the confident rhythm of good graphic design: rows of specimens that guide the eye naturally from one extraordinary creature to the next.

Printed on cotton canvas in our Berlin studio, this canvas print captures the chart's warm palette and intricate linework through archival pigment inks. The cotton canvas texture brings depth and a tactile quality that suits this canvas art print beautifully — a piece that rewards both close inspection and a view from across the room.