Wild West: The Orator | ||
Number: | 294 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 6 | |
Catalogues: | K.313; M.310 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (6) |
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate has an oval maker's stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is close in size to a lot of plates that date from 1887 including other London scenes -
for instance Cutler Street, Houndsditch 361; other Jubilee subjects - such as The Visitors' Boat 303nd
Bunting 304; as well as several dating from 1888 -
such as Little Market Place, Tours 389, The Clock Tower - Amboise 429;
and from later years, etchings such as Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam 448 and Bébés, Jardin du Luxembourg 463. Most of these were also acquired from Hughes & Kimber.
The plate was bequeathed by Whistler to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.