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Wild West: The Orator

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46918)
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)
Etching: PK313_01
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK313_02
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.