511 Hunting Buffaloes. Francis Holl.

A Buffalo Bill-era American west scene engraved by a well known British artist, and printed in New York.

Hunting Buffaloes

New York: F.O.C. Darley, 1870. Copper plate engraving on smooth wove paper, 8 3/4 x 11 inches (222 x 275 mm), full margins. In very good condition with minor age tone and slightly dog-eared corners. The English artist Francis Holl was the son of the highly esteemed engraver William Holl the elder (1771–1838), to whom he was apprenticed.

Buffalo hunting reached a pitch in America in the middle of the 19th century, largely to feed construction crews who were working on the Union Pacific Railroad expansion.

Item number: 511

Price: $150.00

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