The Biggest Lathe in the World

1917

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names
Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

This is a drawing of the interior of an industrial warehouse or factory setting. The artwork depicts a spacious room filled with machinery and equipment. Large pipes and metal structures dominate the foreground. The scene is rendered in pencil or charcoal, showing detailed shading and light and shadow effects. The perspective leads the eye towards the center and a distant point in the background, capturing the mechanical complexity and scale of an industrial setting.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6908

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1931, no. 477


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1931

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

Wikidata ID

Q65022608

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