Can you help me “identify” this print?

John McWhirter was a well known Scottish artist of the Victorian era who produced a fine oil painting of Scottish Highland Cattle which he entitled "The Vanguard" ( Colour picture follows)

It was apparently reproduced ( illegally infringing copyright) as letter heading by a US company before being reproduced as an engraving, again without acknowledgement to the original artist, for your $1 so called "Western Cattle in a Storm" stamp of 1898.


Bloody Cheek I'd say !    "Mimics the famous USA stamp"  indeed, which mimics the original art work   At least the engraver for this etching,  Dillon, gives credit to the original Artist  McWhirter

"The Vanguard " John McWhirter   Looks like a watercolour rather than an oil as I said above.   

  I have seen several other versions of etchings by different artists . I feel the sky in particular is not terribly well done in your version , I have seen finer engraving elsewhere 

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WIKIPEDIA:     An engraving of this painting by one C. O. Murray was published at least twice in England, and this image, copied, without the permission of the painting's owner, Lord Blythswood, was used by an American cattle company on its calendar as a trademark of sorts.[1]



"MacWhirter, however, was a Scot, and his painting, entitled The Vanguard, was soon discovered to have been a depiction of Scottish cattle in a storm in Scotland," according to a company called Chicago Stamps.[3] "It was actually painted in a small farmhouse near the Scottish highland town of Calendar. The scene did not depict an event west of the Mississippi, but it might have been, and few really cared about this detail, for cattle were an important part of the western U.S. economy." (Note: the correct spelling of the town is Callander.)



This image caught the attention of the Post Office Department and Raymond Ostrander Smith, the staff designer of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the time, and it was adopted for the $1 design. Little did the designer know that the scene depicted was in Scotland, not the Western U.S., as was supposed. A full apology was later issued to the owner of the painting.[1] Both the frame and the vignette of the stamp were engraved by Marcus W. Baldwin; the numerals and lettering were the work of Douglas S. Ronaldson.[4]

Trying not to labour the point,
but further research into Mrs C B Johnson revealed

The stamp was originally issued / named  as  "Scotch cattle in the West"

The Scott Catalogue named it "Western Cattle in a storm"  according to this piece, by Mr. Phil Bronner.

another error ? Scotch being the name of hard liquor ?

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