Joseph Pennell - St. Mark's sunset

Italy, Venice. As Wuerth described, "Brightly lit St. Mark's under darkened sky, figures at middle distance, rectilinear Campanile at right. Colors, blue, green, yellow, cream,pink, black, white, gray, purple, orange and red."
Title inscribed on mount.
Inscribed on mount: Joseph Pennell, P. 35-Vol. II, Salve Venetia II:35.
Wuerth, L.A. List of original drawings and paintings, Salve Venetia, volume two, Russian chalk drawings, p. 35, annotated "highly heightened with colored chalk", as The last rays, St. Mark's.
Bequest; Joseph Pennell Estate; 1926-1937; (PR 06 CN 316.41).
Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection.
Published in: Crawford, Francis Marion. Salve Venetia, Vol. II. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905, facing p. 34 (reproduced in black and white).
Conservation completed 8.98.810.58. Good condition.