Tintype photograph on decorated mount
Mount 2 3/8 in x 4 7/8 in / 6 x 12.4 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Prescott, AZ
This 1860s tintype shows a standing cowboy figure in studio dress, with the mount later or contemporaneously inscribed “A Real Cowboy.” Tintypes were a widely used photographic format in mid-nineteenth-century America, valued for their durability, affordability, and direct presence. The image belongs to the early visual culture of the American West, where studio portraits helped shape how frontier identity was recorded and remembered.
The sitter is posed with a hat, vest, trousers, boots, and a holstered sidearm, using clothing and stance to present a recognizable Western figure. The red-bordered mount gives the photograph a strong period presentation and adds to its collecting character. As both portrait and cultural document, the piece reflects the relationship between photography, performance, and Western identity in the post-Civil War period.
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Tintype photograph on decorated mount
Mount 2 3/8 in x 4 7/8 in / 6 x 12.4 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Prescott, AZ
This 1860s tintype shows a standing cowboy figure in studio dress, with the mount later or contemporaneously inscribed “A Real Cowboy.” Tintypes were a widely used photographic format in mid-nineteenth-century America, valued for their durability, affordability, and direct presence. The image belongs to the early visual culture of the American West, where studio portraits helped shape how frontier identity was recorded and remembered.
The sitter is posed with a hat, vest, trousers, boots, and a holstered sidearm, using clothing and stance to present a recognizable Western figure. The red-bordered mount gives the photograph a strong period presentation and adds to its collecting character. As both portrait and cultural document, the piece reflects the relationship between photography, performance, and Western identity in the post-Civil War period.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
