A male brook trout swims across a pale cream ground, rendered in meticulous scientific detail with olive and charcoal tones along its back and striking crimson-red markings along its belly and fins. The fish is depicted in precise profile, capturing both the delicate spotted pattern of its body and the naturalistic proportions favored by nineteenth-century naturalists. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.