Wild West: The Orator |  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) | ||
CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS
- Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 313) 'Wild West, Buffalo Bill'.
- Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 310) 'The Orator'.
EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905
- Winter Exhibition, Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1887-1888 (cat. no. 525) 'Wild West, No. 1'.
- Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 216) 'The Orator, Wild West Show'.
- A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 250) 'The Wild West – Buffalo Bill'.
- Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 241) 'The Wild West – Buffalo Bill'.
REVIEWS 1855- 1905
- Anon., Manchester Courier, [November 1887], (GUL PC9/15).
- Anon., '"Black and White" Exhibition', Standard, London, 25 December 1887 (GUL PC9/47).
GENERAL 1906- PRESENT
- Boston 1910: Exhibition of Etchings and Drypoints by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1910 (cat. no. 213) 'The orator'.
- Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 237, 28 (no. 314).
- Los Angeles 1984: Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 74).
- Joanna Meacock, 'The General and the Colonel; or Scalping the Hostiles', in Erma Hermens, Joanna Meacock and Grischka Petri (eds.),CONNECTING WHISTLER: Essays in Honour of Margaret F. MacDonald, Glasgow, 2010, pp. 76-86, at http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_182035_en.pdf
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, II, pp. 81-82.