Plazza del Comune, Pistoia

Joseph Pennell

1883 · Etching and drypoint · Drawings and Prints

Pennell, a Philadelphia-born Quaker decided to become an illustrator and printmaker, then worked as a clerk before studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He visited Europe for the first time in 1883, on commission from The Century Magazine (formerly Scribner's), and visited Italy, depicting unconventional sites and points of view. Here he the arcade of the Palazzo Communale, a Renaissance palace on the main square in Pistoia, Tuscany, with pedestrians and a horse and rider moving across the foreground.

Artist

Joseph Pennell

Date

1883

Medium

Etching and drypoint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917