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[Illustration by Frederic Remington: Conjuring back the buffalo] – Antique Print

[Illustration by Frederic Remington: Conjuring back the buffalo] — antique engraving
[Illustration by Frederic Remington: Conjuring back the buffalo]. Antique engraving from the Buffalo collection.

(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: [Illustration by Frederic Remington: Conjuring back the buffalo], preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Illustration by Frederic Remington: Conjuring back the buffalo]

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Few subjects in the Western repertoire carry as much weight as the bison, and this engraving takes that subject as its title: a scene of "conjuring back the buffalo," a ritual of hoped-for renewal set against the vanishing herds of the late 1800s. Frederic Remington, who drew and painted the American West for magazines and books, often paired Plains figures with cowboys and soldiers, and the caption card's index terms reflect that mix of warriors, cowboys, and Native subjects. The record gives no date, so the piece is best read in its general period, when railroads, market hunting, and federal policy had already thinned the herds. The "Buffalo" on the gallery board refers to the animal, not the city.

Medium1 print : line engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsNo file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: J Kearns; PI; Ind.--Females; Cowboys; Indians--Warriors; PI--Works; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan921 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129482

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