Skip to main content
A view of London overlooking a bridge.
View of London
A view of London overlooking a bridge.
A view of London overlooking a bridge.
View of London, Joseph Pennell, 1914, body color, watercolor on paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

View of London

Artist (American, 1857 - 1926)
Date1914
MediumBody color, watercolor on paper
DimensionsSight: 8 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (21 × 26.7 cm)
Framed: 16 3/8 × 17 5/8 × 1 inches (41.6 × 44.8 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1924.3
On View
Not on view
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextA highly-regarded printmaker, draughtsman, illustrator, and teacher, Joseph Pennell is celebrated for his intricate architectural etchings as well as his atmospheric renderings of the skylines of New York, London, and his native Philadelphia. However, he is perhaps best known for his role in composing the definitive contemporary biography of his longtime friend James Abbott McNeill Whistler, which Pennell co-authored with his wife, Elizabeth Robbins Pennell.
Subject MatterThames River, London, England
View of a brick cottage with a blue door and a blue bucket placed outside the door.
George Hitchcock
n. d.
Portrait
Samuel Joseph Brown Jr.
1945
View of a partially open cottage window, a side chair and to the left, a dressing table with an…
George Henry Boughton
n. d.
A thin pine tree curving into the center of the foreground with a lake and empurpled mountains …
Mary Comer Lane
1946
A blue cottage door with six glass panes and a transom window to the left of a slender tree.
George Hitchcock
n. d.
A seascape with a small boat carrying two men.
Charles Herbert Woodbury
c. 1907
A sunset over a golden field with a scant line of trees with a blue tree line on the horizon.
Eliot O'Hara
c. 1934
Luxury
Eleanor Rogers Copeland
c. 1935
Untitled
Paul Goadby Stone
1962
Untitled
Hattie Saussy
before 1978
Untitled
Paul Goadby Stone
1961
People sitting on benches outside of a building.
George Henry Boughton
n. d.