"All in a Day's Work..."
An image can't get any more Texas than this!
...yet very few people have ever seen it. It was produced by an unknown artist in 1886 for the cover of a piece of sheet music published by Thomas Goggan, a Galveston music mogul.
He was obviously trying to catch the coattails of Charlie Siringo's huge success with his book, A Texas Cow Boy, published the previous year.
The imagery and timing are striking. Here is the cowboy way of life depicted in fine detail, just as barbed wire and the railroads were ending the great cattle drives. It's bittersweet if you think about it.
It's incredibly rare. There are only nine known copies. If artwork sold music, that might be a different story. For whatever reason the song was not a hit. From what we can discern 130+ years later, a single batch was printed and that was that.
Which is a shame, because in the last century, only a few people combing archives have laid eyes on this incredible piece of Texas iconography.
I wish I were better with words. I might be able to make you feel the impact of this print. It's a showstopper. It will make you smile every time you see it hanging on your wall. It's the kind of thing visitors stop to admire.
And it fits in a standard frame size. 18 by 24 inches. So you don't have to fuss with matting if that's not your cup of tea.
Time to order.
Physical Details
- 18 by 24 inches
- On heavyweight watercolor paper
- Printed with love in Corpus Christi
- 100% pure Texas
This is a high quality giclee print.
The paper is acid free watercolor with an elegant ever so lightly textured finish. This surface allows the inks to 'bite', reproducing the shading and tonality of the original map vividly, beautifully, and exactly.
The inks are guaranteed color-fast for 80 years, which means you won't need to lay out the extra money for UV glass. You can hang your map in direct sun and it will be just as bright when they are passed on to the next generation it is the day it ships.
It's an instant heirloom. Get yours before they're gone...and get one to give to a friend. He'll owe you!
