Mr. Pennell's etchings of New York "skyscrapers"
A 1905 New York publication by Frederick Keppel, a print dealer, presenting Joseph Pennell's etchings of Manhattan skyscrapers for collectors and print-lovers. The four plates show dense street canyons, with tall office blocks crowding narrow avenues and streetcars and pedestrians at their bases. A designer could take the cross-hatched etched line and the way towers recede into pale sky as a model for architectural urban texture.
