On the River
| Reference: | S5575 |
| Author | Joseph PENNELL |
| Year: | 1894 |
| Measures: | 200 x 275 mm |
€100.00
| Reference: | S5575 |
| Author | Joseph PENNELL |
| Year: | 1894 |
| Measures: | 200 x 275 mm |
€100.00
Description
On the River, from The Art Journal, 1894.
Etching, printed on contemporary vowe paper, with margins, good condition.
Inscription within image: a sign in the foreground is lettered: "Saloon & Steakhouse / Koh-i-Noor / Clacton on Sea...This Pier."; below image: "The Art Journal / Original Etching by Joseph Pennell / J. S. Virtue & Co. Limited".
Joseph Pennell (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1857–1926 New York), a Philadelphia-born Quaker, spent the first two decades of his career abroad, living primarily in London, where he became a close associate of Whistler. Here, he represents a Thames subject for "The Art Journal," with steamboats, a railroad bridge, and foreground placard identifying a saloon and steakhouse that catered to passengers traveling to Clacton-on-Sea. The full-page print accompanied an article with the same title by the artist's wife, Elizabeth Pennell. The artist was praised by the "Army and Navy Gazette" for the "thorough mastery of line" displayed by the etching. One other critic, writing in the "Dundee Advertiser," thought the subject "quite Whistleresque" in treatment.
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Joseph Pennell (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1857–1926 New York), a Philadelphia-born Quaker, spent the first two decades of his career abroad, living primarily in London, where he became a close associate of Whistler. Here, he represents a Thames subject for "The Art Journal," with steamboats, a railroad bridge, and foreground placard identifying a saloon and steakhouse that catered to passengers traveling to Clacton-on-Sea. The full-page print accompanied an article with the same title by the artist's wife, Elizabeth Pennell. The artist was praised by the "Army and Navy Gazette" for the "thorough mastery of line" displayed by the etching. One other critic, writing in the "Dundee Advertiser," thought the subject "quite Whistleresque" in treatment.
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Joseph Pennell (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1857–1926 New York), a Philadelphia-born Quaker, spent the first two decades of his career abroad, living primarily in London, where he became a close associate of Whistler. Here, he represents a Thames subject for "The Art Journal," with steamboats, a railroad bridge, and foreground placard identifying a saloon and steakhouse that catered to passengers traveling to Clacton-on-Sea. The full-page print accompanied an article with the same title by the artist's wife, Elizabeth Pennell. The artist was praised by the "Army and Navy Gazette" for the "thorough mastery of line" displayed by the etching. One other critic, writing in the "Dundee Advertiser," thought the subject "quite Whistleresque" in treatment.
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