Sunlight Soap

1905

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names
Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

This is a drawing of the front of a brick building with several windows and advertisements, featuring people gathered around the entrance. The building is depicted with detailed line work and cross-hatching to indicate the texture of the bricks and the windowpanes. The signage includes various advertisements for "Sunlight Soap" and "Bath" related items, along with some illegible text. The scene captures an older architectural style, with multiple individuals in historical attire, standing, seated or leaning around the building's entrance. The composition is horizontal, and the figures add a narrative element to the drawing.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Addie Burr Clark

  • Accession Number

    1946.9.184

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1928, no. 385


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1928

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

Wikidata ID

Q65080102

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