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The Towering City, Toledo

A work made of oiled charcoal, with stumping and erasing, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on off-white wood pulp laminate board.
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  • A work made of oiled charcoal, with stumping and erasing, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on off-white wood pulp laminate board.

Date:

c. 1903

Artist:

Joseph Pennell
American, 1857-1926

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Joseph Pennell

Title

The Towering City, Toledo

Place

United States (Artist's nationality)

Date

1898–1908

Medium

Oiled charcoal, with stumping and erasing, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on off-white wood pulp laminate board

Dimensions

21.8 × 28.2 cm (8 5/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

RX18296/155

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