Art, literature & history
Wild West: The Orator
1887
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 12.7 × 17.7 cm (5 × 7 in.); Sheet: 15.4 × 19.6 cm (6 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1917.495
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Wild West: The Orator. James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Art Institute of Chicago; Bequest of Bryan Lathrop. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Wild West: The Orator — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1887.
Medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper. Dimensions: Plate: 12.7 × 17.7 cm (5 × 7 in.); Sheet: 15.4 × 19.6 cm (6 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.