A Forgotten Fish - Weathervane Wednesday

 This weathervane was photographed on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont.

This weathervane was spotted above a maintenance shed in the rear of the grounds of the Shelburne Museum.  We were walking on the path between the Merry-Go-Round and the Railroad Station, when we saw this shed on the other side of the boundary fence, next to the train tracks.  I had previously taken lots of photos of the weathervanes in the collections of the Dorset House and on top of the out buildings (barns, churches, etc.) and written up lots of blog posts (see below), but we had missed this little weathervane on previous trips to the Shelburne Museum.

This three dimensional weathervane of a fish has a nice green patina.  It is probably copper, and knowing the Shelburne Museum, it was probably moved from another location or it might be a newly commissioned piece of art. The Shelburne Museum has a nice little book on their weathervane collection entitled Silhouettes in the Sky: The Art of the Weathervane, by Jean M. Burks, 2006.  This fish doesn't appear in the book. 

For the truly curious:

A blog post about the Shelburne Museum, 2013:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-shelburne-museum-and-shelburne-farms.html  

"Three on one Barn!"  2014:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/weathervane-wednesday-three-on-one-barn.html   

"Five Weathervane Stamps"  2014:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/04/weathervane-wednesday-five-weathervane.html   

"A Circus Performer" 2014:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/03/weathervane-wednesday-circus-performer.html   

"Another Centaur?"  2014:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/09/weathervane-wednesday-another-centaur.html   

"The Lion Killer"  2014:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/04/weathervane-wednesday-lion-killer.html   

"Seen at the Shelburne Museum"  2014:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/weathervane-wednesday-seen-at-shelburne.html   

"My Favorite Eagle"  2014:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/03/weathervane-wednesday-my-favorite-eagle.html   

"A Fox and Hound"  2014:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/03/weathervane-wednesday-my-favorite-eagle.html 

"A Familiar Mermaid"  2014:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/03/weathervane-wednesday-familiar-mermaid.html   

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Forgotten Fish - Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 20, 2022, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-forgotten-fish-weathervane-wednesday.html: accessed [access date]).