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The Bucking Horse, Wild West | ||
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) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
After Whistler's death impressions were shown in comprehensive Memorial Exhibitions including the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and, lent by Messrs F. Keppel & Co. at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 12
9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 218).
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 276); New York 1903b (cat. no. 212).
11: London Obach 1903 (cat. no. 232).
12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 240); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 290).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler kept three impressions, which were bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). One of these she gave to Freer in 1904 () although he already had one. The two others she bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, which retained one () and sold the other ().