New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Building Destroyers No. I

Artist Joseph Pennell (American, 1857 - 1926)

CultureAmerican

Date1917

Mediumlithograph, handmade paper

DimensionsOverall, Image: 20 1/8 x 15 3/8 in. (51.1 x 39.1 cm)
Overall, Mat: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Overall: 24 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. (61.6 x 47 cm)
Overall, Frame: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 1 3/8 in. (74.9 x 62.2 x 3.5 cm)

InscribedSigned on the stone slanting downward to right an inch or more from lower right edge and in pencil just under design right of center. "43" written in pencil in lower left corner of margin.

Credit LineGift of Mr. William H. White

Object number47.11.2

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DescriptionA lithograph of a two building ways with two overhead cranes each. A hull under construction is plainly seen in the right hand ways and one is indicated in the left hand ways. There is a vista of the river beyond.

Exhibition HistoryNorth Gallery, Summer 1959. Published ReferencesLouis A. Wuerth, CATALOGUE OF THE LITHOGRAPHS OF JOSEPH PENNELL, 1931, #502.