The Erechtheum

1913

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names
Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The image depicts an ancient ruin, a classical building surrounded by scattered ruins and pillars. There are faint outlines of more ruins or landscape features in the middle distance. The drawing style uses a mix of fine and bold pencil strokes for texture on the stone surfaces and environment. The color palette is monochromatic, with various shades of gray for depth and detail. The sky in the distance is rendered in soft, blurry strokes contrasted with the sharper lines of the architecture and rubble in the foreground.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6980

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1931, no. 342


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1931

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

Wikidata ID

Q65022679

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