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The Bucking Horse, Wild West

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46919)
Number: 295
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 84 x 185 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.315; M.309
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)
Etching: PK315_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK315_02 (plate)
The copper plate is the same size as two other plates etched in 1887, Petite Rue des Bouchers [342] and Rag Shop, St Martin's Lane [328]. None of these three have a maker's stamp. It is a little larger than another used on the same day, The Orator, Buffalo Bill [293].
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled with a diagonal line at left.