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Lodgings for Gents

1923

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names

Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The image depicts a city street scene with a tall building under construction. The perspective is looking up towards the building, showing intricate framework and detailed line work characteristic of an etching. The color palette is monochromatic, using shades of brown and black. Smaller buildings line the street, leading the eye towards the towering construction. Scumbled lines in the sky suggest smoke or cloud forms.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 305 x 229 mm
sheet 394 x 254 mm
Accession Number

2008.115.3886
Catalogue Raisonné

Wuerth 1928, no. 809

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1928

Wuerth, Louis A. Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1928.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: J. Pennell imp.

Wikidata ID

Q76456120

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