DOI Heft:
No. 166 (January, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Singer, Hans Wolfgang: On some of Mr. Joseph Pennell's recent etchings
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0332
Mr. Joseph PennelTs Recent Etchings
ON SOME OF MR. JOSEPH distinct success even from the dealer's point
PENNELL'S RECENT ETCH- of view.
INGS BY PROF DR HANS "Topographical draughtsman and etcher" has a
peculiar and not altogether agreeable ring to it.
W. SINGER. -pjjg expression reminds one of those ungifted but
Our time is usually spent in telling the public conscientious artists who anticipated the possibili-
at large how to appreciate certain works of art or ties of the camera in their indiscriminate attention
certain artists, who heretofore have not gained the to detail and who, faithful chroniclers that they
degree of popular esteem they deserve. It is a were, seem to have resorted to the etcher's point
great pleasure, by way of variety, to write about rather than to the pen, simply because it enabled
somebody whom the public does appreciate, and them to be more precise and unequivocal than any
it is a still greater pleasure to be able to show literary author possibly can be. Lithography gave
them that they do not even then appreciate him this tribe a heavy blow; photography swept it
enough. away. And yet the topographical artist was not
Everybody knows Mr. PennelPs work as a topo- always of this description. There were the
graphical draughtsman; at least, everybody who Canaletti and Guardi of old, who have raised the
gets to see our great monthly magazines and rank of the profession to an equality with all
who takes some sort of an interest in modern others, since they proved that topographical sub-
illustrated books. His etchings are perhaps a jects are as open to highly artistic treatment as
shade less known, though the Toledo set and any others. And to-day there are men like Kuehl
the set of " sky scrapers" of New York have re- and Pennell whose work will convince everybody
ceived considerable attention, whereas the most that entering upon this field of pictorial art does
recent, the London set, may be pronounced a 1 not in any way hamper a man's invention or fancy,
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FROM AN ORIGINAL ETCHING BY JOSEPH PENNELL
ON SOME OF MR. JOSEPH distinct success even from the dealer's point
PENNELL'S RECENT ETCH- of view.
INGS BY PROF DR HANS "Topographical draughtsman and etcher" has a
peculiar and not altogether agreeable ring to it.
W. SINGER. -pjjg expression reminds one of those ungifted but
Our time is usually spent in telling the public conscientious artists who anticipated the possibili-
at large how to appreciate certain works of art or ties of the camera in their indiscriminate attention
certain artists, who heretofore have not gained the to detail and who, faithful chroniclers that they
degree of popular esteem they deserve. It is a were, seem to have resorted to the etcher's point
great pleasure, by way of variety, to write about rather than to the pen, simply because it enabled
somebody whom the public does appreciate, and them to be more precise and unequivocal than any
it is a still greater pleasure to be able to show literary author possibly can be. Lithography gave
them that they do not even then appreciate him this tribe a heavy blow; photography swept it
enough. away. And yet the topographical artist was not
Everybody knows Mr. PennelPs work as a topo- always of this description. There were the
graphical draughtsman; at least, everybody who Canaletti and Guardi of old, who have raised the
gets to see our great monthly magazines and rank of the profession to an equality with all
who takes some sort of an interest in modern others, since they proved that topographical sub-
illustrated books. His etchings are perhaps a jects are as open to highly artistic treatment as
shade less known, though the Toledo set and any others. And to-day there are men like Kuehl
the set of " sky scrapers" of New York have re- and Pennell whose work will convince everybody
ceived considerable attention, whereas the most that entering upon this field of pictorial art does
recent, the London set, may be pronounced a 1 not in any way hamper a man's invention or fancy,
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FROM AN ORIGINAL ETCHING BY JOSEPH PENNELL