The gates of Pedro Miguel Lock
Item Information
- Title:
- The gates of Pedro Miguel Lock
- Title (alt.):
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The bottom of Pedro Miguel Lock
- Description:
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"I went to the Panama Canal because I believed the greatest engineer work the world has ever seen would give me the greatest artistic inspiration of my life. I went because I believed that at the Canal I should see the Wonder of Work, the Picturesqueness of Labour, realized on the grandest scale. I believed that if but little of all I had heard of the huge lock, the great dam, were true, on the Isthmus of Panama, I should find the most marvelous subjects of all time, so risked it - a risk of fifteen thousand miles, for possible picturesqueness. I hope my work may serve as a record of the building of the Canal, - a record of subjects, which exist no longer, but which in my lithographs, I hope may to the best of my ability, be preserved - a memory of the greatest work of modern times, - a record of the greatest American achievement of all time." Joseph Pennell.
- Artist:
- Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
- Name on Item:
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Jo Pennell
- Date:
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1912
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Lithographs
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
Gates
Hoisting machinery
Canal construction
Railroad tracks
- Places:
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PanamaPanama Canal
Pedro Miguel Locks
- Extent:
- 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 64 x 52 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/pc28cb630
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
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