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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)

TECHNIQUE

The plate for The Bucking Horse, Wild West was etched, with just a few drypoint touches added on and below the figures at lower right.

PRINTING

The first proof was printed in black ink on cream laid paper (), and another in black ink on a sheet of cream laid paper taken from a book, with the binding holes visible along the left edge (). Although most are trimmed to the platemark and signed with a butterfly and 'imp.' on the tab to show that Whistler had printed them, one - the last mentioned - is signed in this manner but not trimmed (). Several impressions are in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper (i.e. , , , ).