Building a Power House

1910

Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

Joseph Pennell

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 44.4 × 28.7 cm (17 1/2 × 11 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.6 × 31.7 cm (18 3/4 × 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6976

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1931, no. 177

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1931

  • Wuerth, Louis A. Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1931.

Inscriptions

lower left, in stone: JPennell / NIagara / 10. 1910; lower left, below image, in graphite: K 5958 (P.144); lower center, below image, in graphite: JPennell [artist's signature]; lower right, below image, in graphite: Building Power House Canadian Side A. 938 Niagara; verso, lower center, in graphite: Building a Power House / Canadian Side / NIagara

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d); stamped in black ink: Rosenwald stamp (Lugt 1760b)

Wikidata ID

Q65022675

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