Casa Jankowitz – Antique Print
![Casa Jankowitz, [ca. 1901] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b9eb8dde6df7-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic drawing captures Casa Jankowitz in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Joseph Pennell's pastel *Casa Jankowitz* shows a Venetian lodging house, and the picture is tied to the late years of James McNeill Whistler, whose known haunts in the city are recorded in its subject headings. Pennell, an American illustrator and printmaker, drew and signed the work in pastel on blue-gray paper around 1901, the period when he and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, were close to Whistler. The sheet's canal and lodging-house subjects reflect Venice's appeal to visiting artists in the early 1900s, when its waterways and old façades drew many draftsmen.
| Created / published | [ca. 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on blue-gray paper : pastel ; sheet 23.8 x 32 cm. |
| Genre | Pastels (Visual works) Color 1890-1910.Drawings Color 1890-1910. |
| Notes | Title from item. Title in pastel and pencil. Exhibit loan 2624-L. Inscribed on verso: Return to JPennell. Publisher's notes inscribed on verso. Signed in pastel, LC: JoPennell. Bequest; Joseph Pennell Estate; 1926-1937; (PR 06 CN 316.401). Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. Exhibited: Whistler and his circle in Venice, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2003. Exhibited: The Pennell Legacy: Two Centuries of Printmaking, An Exhibition at the Library of Congress, December 1983 through May 1984. |
| Subjects | Whistler, James McNeill,--1834-1903--Homes & haunts. Lodging houses--Italy--Venice--1900-1910. Canals--Italy--Venice--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,215 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150860 |
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