Cabinet card photograph
6 in x 4 in / 15.2 x 10.2 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Phoenix, AZ
This 1890 cabinet card shows a young man posed in a studio setting with crossed arms and a small pistol held in each hand. The title “Sure Shot” gives the portrait a theatrical or performance quality, suggesting a staged identity rather than a documentary working scene. The R. Gates studio attribution places the photograph in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
The sitter’s bowler hat, long hair, suit jacket, and formal backdrop create a carefully arranged portrait with a strong visual character. Cabinet cards were widely used in the late nineteenth century for personal portraits, performers, and novelty subjects. As an image of posed marksmanship, the photograph fits within nineteenth-century Americana, studio portraiture, and popular performance imagery.
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Cabinet card photograph
6 in x 4 in / 15.2 x 10.2 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Phoenix, AZ
This 1890 cabinet card shows a young man posed in a studio setting with crossed arms and a small pistol held in each hand. The title “Sure Shot” gives the portrait a theatrical or performance quality, suggesting a staged identity rather than a documentary working scene. The R. Gates studio attribution places the photograph in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
The sitter’s bowler hat, long hair, suit jacket, and formal backdrop create a carefully arranged portrait with a strong visual character. Cabinet cards were widely used in the late nineteenth century for personal portraits, performers, and novelty subjects. As an image of posed marksmanship, the photograph fits within nineteenth-century Americana, studio portraiture, and popular performance imagery.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
