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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)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Impression: K3150102
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.

State 2

Impression: K3150105
With five short right-to-left diagonals (///) in drypoint at the lower right, below the woman's bustle, and possibly additional light shading on the woman's hat at lower right.
Later impressions of the second state show corrosion marks along the lower edge and at the lower right corner.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K315_01 (plate)
Cancelled with a diagonal line.

No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 8

8: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.