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[New York City skyline from Brooklyn Harbor, ships docked in foreground] – Antique Print

[New York City skyline from Brooklyn Harbor, ships docked in foreground], [between ca. 1921 and 1926] — historic drawing
[New York City skyline from Brooklyn Harbor, ships docked in foreground], [between ca. 1921 and 1926]. Historic drawing from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[New York City skyline from Brooklyn Harbor, ships docked in foreground] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[New York City skyline from Brooklyn Harbor, ships docked in foreground]

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Ships moored in the foreground set this sheet apart from the other New York views in the Pennell group, which usually focus on streets, bridges, or towers. Joseph Pennell, an American illustrator and printmaker who spent much of his career recording the city's growth, made the drawing in watercolor and gouache on thick gray paper sometime between about 1921 and 1926. The skyline rising beyond the hulls reflects a period when Manhattan's towers were multiplying quickly, and the piece is one of forty-nine New York studies that came to the Library of Congress through his estate.

Created / published[between ca. 1921 and 1926]
Medium1 drawing on thick gray paper : watercolor, gouache ; sheet 26.8 x 33.4 cm.
GenreCityscape drawings Color 1910-1930.Marines (Visual works) 1910-1930.Watercolors 1910-1930.
NotesWuerth annotated this group with 5/49. Wuerth, L.A. List of original drawings and paintings, New York building and bridge studies. Group of forty-nine drawings in watercolors, all New York subjects, unfinished compositions and notes, no. 5, p. 10. Bequest; Joseph Pennell Estate; 1926-1937; (PR 06 CN 316.3224). Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. DRW-US-XIX-P420.A55. Conservation completed 8.98.810.1. Good condition.
SubjectsShips--New York (State)--New York--1910-1930. Harbors--New York (State)--New York--1910-1930. New York (N.Y.)--1910-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,296 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219354

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