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1925

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1951

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

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Print, Telephone and Telegraph Building

This is a Print. It was created by Joseph Pennell. It is dated 1925 and we acquired it in 1951. Its medium is etching in brown ink on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 24.9 × 30.1 cm (9 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.) Sheet: 29.1 × 37.9 cm (11 7/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite, lower center: Jo Pennell Imp

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: E1060; upper right: 6 / 1 [remaining portion cut off]

Cite this object as

Print, Telephone and Telegraph Building; Joseph Pennell (American, active England, 1857–1926); etching in brown ink on paper; Platemark: 24.9 × 30.1 cm (9 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.) Sheet: 29.1 × 37.9 cm (11 7/16 × 14 15/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt; 1951-48-2

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