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Joseph Pennell
1857-1926
London night, whiskey and tea
[London? : s.n., 1909]
mezzotint
image: 255 x 376 mm; sheet: 263 x 380 mm; with extended paper margins: 274 x 399 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2576
Notes
Image concomitant with plate mark.
Library's copy edged with paper to extend the left, right, and upper margins.
Library's copy edged with paper to extend the left, right, and upper margins.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist in pencil at foot of image below plate mark; stamp of former owner(?) in bottom left hand corner; in pencil on verso: Pennell, Waterloo Bridge [struck out] schabkunst London Night Whiskey and Tea. W. 505.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Nocturnal view of the London skyline between Waterloo and Westminister showing the Lipton's tea tower, seen from across Thames, with a bridge in the middle ground and a row of trees in the foreground.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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