Cowboys coming to town for Christmas / drawn by Frederic Remington. – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Cowboys coming to town for Christmas / drawn by Frederic Remington., preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cowboys coming to town for Christmas / drawn by Frederic Remington.
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Frederic Remington's "Cowboys Coming to Town for Christmas" shows riders heading into a settlement for the holiday, a scene that captures the brief festive break cattle hands took after long months on the range. The wood engraving ran in Harper's Weekly on December 21, 1889, across two pages, at a time when the magazine was one of the most widely read illustrated weeklies in the country. Remington, who had made his reputation drawing the American West for eastern audiences, gave readers a picture of frontier life that was both lively and carefully observed. Engravings like this one reached households far from the plains and helped shape how Americans imagined the cowboy.
| Created / published | [published 1889] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1889 Dec. 21, pp. 1016-1017. |
| Subjects | Cowboys--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 995 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165366 |
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