The scout Buffalo Bill. Hon. W.F. Cody / P. Frenzeny ; Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y. – Historic Print
![The scout Buffalo Bill. Hon. W.F. Cody / P. Frenzeny ; Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y., [between 1872 and 1890(?)] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a1/a1bf2b942040-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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This rare antique lithograph captures The scout Buffalo Bill. Hon. W.F. Cody / P. Frenzeny ; Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The scout Buffalo Bill. Hon. W.F. Cody / P. Frenzeny ; Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y.
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Cody appears here as a scout on horseback, a figure who blended frontier service with the showmanship that made him famous. The color lithograph carries the name of Paul Frenzeny, an illustrator known for his Western scenes in magazines such as *Harper's Weekly*, and the Forbes Company of Boston and New York published it. Cody had already become a national celebrity through dime novels and his work as an Army scout on the Plains, and his later Wild West shows would build on that image. The print's undated range, placed between 1872 and 1890, reflects that period of rising fame.
| Created / published | [between 1872 and 1890(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1870-1890.Lithographs Color 1870-1890. |
| Subjects | Buffalo Bill,--1846-1917. Military scouts--American--1870-1890. Horseback riding--1870-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,625 × 3,856 px · prints to 9 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219996 |
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