Cowboy on horseback aiming a revolver, sepia photograph – Historic Photograph Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Cowboy on horseback aiming a revolver, sepia photograph brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Cowboy on horseback aiming a revolver, sepia photograph
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The title gives us a lone rider on horseback with a revolver raised, a pose that became a staple of Western imagery once studio photographers and traveling showmen began staging it for audiences in the late 1800s. Sepia toning, a process that warmed the silver tones of a print, was popular through the early twentieth century and lends this image the faded, storybook quality that many viewers associate with the frontier. Staged scenes like this one were often posed rather than candid, so the rider's stance reflects how the West was imagined and marketed as much as how daily life there actually looked. Note how the posed rider, the horse and the props were arranged for the camera to tell a story of danger and self-reliance.
| Original scan | 1,876 × 2,944 px · prints to 6 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif10791_WillRobertsaliasDixoncowboytra |
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