WOW 1800s PENNELL ORIGINAL 1800s Etching \"Venice from the Sea\" Signed Framed COA For Sale

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Artist:Joseph Pennell(American, 1857-1926)
Title: Venice from the Sea
Medium:Original etching on wove paper.
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower right.
Year:1885
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 4 x 8 3/8inches.
Framed dimensions:Approximately 13 x 17 inches.
Framing:This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.

Additional notes:
This is not a modern print. This original Joseph Pennell etching is more than 130 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp.
Extra Information:
We have seen a thousand Venices in art, but hardly ever exactly this one that rises in clear obscure beyond the lagoon with all her towers, a tantalizing prospect, like a dream city that one sees afar without the possibility of approaching it. Is there anything in the world like that line of palaces, churches, domes, and towers, now dark in the twilight, but in the glory of sunshine fair with radiant, roseate splendor between a sea of emerald and a sky of Venetian ultramarine.
Artist Biography:Born in Philadelphia, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend, James McNeill Whistler, he afterwards went to Europe and made his home in London. Joseph Pennell had many etchings that depicted historic landmarks in the city of Philadelphia. His etching of Wakefield- Fisher’s Lane was created in 1882. This was the mansion of William Logan Fisher which was standing until 1985. It would have been located on the corner of Ogontz and Lindley Avenues near La Salle University\'s St. Basil Court. He produced numerous books (many of them in collaboration with his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell), but his chief distinction is as an original etcher and lithographer, and notably as an illustrator. Their close acquaintance with Whistler led the Pennells to undertake a biography of that artist in 1906, and, after some litigation with his executrix on the right to use his letters, the book was published in 1908. He taught at Slade School of Art. He won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900), and 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The Waldorf-Astoria at the original location, Fifth Avenue and Thirty-Fourth Street. Charcoal and pastel on brown paper by Joseph Pennell, c. 1904-1908. Pennell visited San Francisco in March 1912, where he undertook a series of so-called \"municipal subjects\". These were exhibited in December 1912 at \"the prestigious gallery of Vickery, Atkins & Torrey\", according to Mary Millman and Dave Bohn, authors of The Master of Line: John W. Winkler, American Etcher , (Capra Press: Santa Barbara, CA, 1994). It is possible that Pennell\'s visit inspired San Francisco printmakers Robert Harshe and Pedro Lemos, along with sculptor Ralph Stackpole and painter Gottardo Piazzoni, to found the California Society of Etchers in 1912, now the California Society of Printmakers. Longtime members of California Society of Printmakers believe that Pennell was a member of the New York Etchers Club, established in 1877, although his membership in the New York Etchers Club is not confirmed. That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth (1918) Pennell did the poster for the fourth Liberty Loans campaign of 1918. It showed the entrance to New York City\'s New York Harbor under aerial and naval bombardment, with New York in flames and the Statue of Liberty partly destroyed, her head and her torch blown off. He taught at the Art Students League of New York.

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