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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)

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

  • Manchester Courier, [November 1887], (GUL PC9/15).
  • 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'.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 74).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 237, 28 (no. 314).
  • 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.