Joseph Pennell’s etching, “St Paul's Seen from the River”, 1905

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926)

“St Paul's Seen from the River” (aka “St. Paul’s over Temple Stairs”; “Le débarcadère du Temple à Londres”), 1905, a strong impression from the reduced plate published in “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, vol. 36, 1^st July, 1906, between pages 60 and 61 as an illustration to Paul Jamot’s article, “Les Salons de 1906” (pp. 45–69). Archive.org offers and online view of this print in its context in the publication: https://archive.org/details/gazette-des-beaux-arts_1906_36/page/60/mode/2up.

Etching with plate-tone printed in a brown ink on wove paper, trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 17.9 x 21.4 cm; (plate) 16 x 20.5 cm.

State ii (of ii) with the plate reduced for publication.

Wuerth 380 (Louis A. Wuerth 1988, “Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell”, San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, p. 131, cat. no. 380).

The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print: (Transl.) “St Paul's seen from the river, with steps leading down to the water” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.214387).

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed impression with vignette-like darkening in the wiping of the plate towards the edges and use of retroussage—a technique employed when wiping the etching plate—to soften/blur the lines. The sheet is trimmed with a small margin around the plate mark and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in a very good condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this freely drawn etching showing a view of London at the turn of the twentieth century with St Paul’s Cathedral in the distance and the River Thames in the foreground, for the total cost of AU$252 (currently US$168.47/EUR154.76/GBP130.45 at the time of posting this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$252) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this wonderfully atmospheric etching by one of the great supporters of James McNeill Whistler, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.