2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
Cabinet Card Photograph, 4-1/4" 6-1/4", "Colonel W.F. Cody 'Buffalo Bill', London: Elliott and Fry, 1887. Woodburytype photo of Cody standing with his Winchester rifle and wearing the large belt buckle that appears in almost every photograph depicting him in stage costume. In the same year, Buffalo Bill's Wild West opened at Earl's Court in London, introducing the American west to a large English audience. Somewhat dark. Still a stunning image. A Woodburytype is both a printing process and the print that it produces. In technical terms, the process is a photomechanical rather than a photographic one, because sensitivity to light plays no role in the actual printing. The process produces very high quality continuous tone images in monochrome, with surfaces that show a slight relief effect. Essentially, a Woodburytype is a mold produced copy of an original photographic negative with a tonal range similar to a Carbon print. The process was introduced by the English photographer Walter B. Woodbury and was in use during the final third of the 19th century.
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