Buffalo Bill's Wild West--Col. W.F. Cody / Alick P.F. Ritchie. – Antique Wall Art
![Buffalo Bill's Wild West--Col. W.F. Cody / Alick P.F. Ritchie., London : Weiners, Ltd., [1890] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/97/97eefdb23053-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Buffalo Bill's Wild West--Col. W.F. Cody / Alick P.F. Ritchie., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West--Col. W.F. Cody / Alick P.F. Ritchie.
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The title names Col. W.F. Cody, the frontier scout and showman known as Buffalo Bill, and the genre is portrait, so this color poster centers on a single figure rather than a crowd of riders and performers, as many Wild West bills did. The sheet was printed in London by Weiners, Ltd., and credits Alick P.F. Ritchie for the design. Cody's show had drawn large crowds in Britain since its 1887 London season, and posters like this one carried the American frontier to audiences who would never see the plains. The bracketed date of about 1890 places it during one of the show's return engagements.
| Created / published | London : Weiners, Ltd., [1890] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 82.6 x 56.8 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1890.Circus posters British 1890.Prints Color 1890. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: Gt. Brit. K73. 1890. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007. |
| Subjects | Buffalo Bill,--1846-1917. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 794 × 1,232 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217620 |
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