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Railway station, York / Pennell. – Vintage Wall Art

Railway station, York / Pennell., [1895] — historic drawing
Railway station, York / Pennell., [1895]. Historic drawing from the Railroads & Depots 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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A window into the past: Railway station, York / Pennell., preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Joseph Pennell's watercolor of the railway station at York shows the place as a working scene rather than a monument, with the wash and white heightening catching the light on the platform and the iron and glass of the roof. Pennell, an American illustrator and printmaker who spent much of his career in England, made a long series of railway subjects in the 1890s, drawn at a time when the steam railway was still reshaping English towns and when stations were among the busiest public spaces in the country. York was a major junction on the lines radiating north and east, so its station was a place of constant arrival and departure. The sheet is inscribed and signed by the artist, and it was catalogued among his early London drawings.

Created / published[1895]
Medium1 drawing on cream paper : wash with white heightening ; sheet 28 x 38 cm.
GenreWatercolors 1890-1900.Drawings Color 1890-1900.
NotesDate from Wuerth inventory. Inscribed in pencil, LR: Railway Station York. Signed in ink wash, LL: JoPennell York. Wuerth, L.A. List of original drawings and paintings, Early London Drawings, no. 639. Bequest; Joseph Pennell Estate; 1926-1937; (PR 06 CN 316.43) Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. Conservation completed 8.98.810.59. Needs surface cleaning (2 hrs.).
SubjectsRailroad stations--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,314 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219352

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