Discusses the architecture, restoration and history of the
cathedrals of France with 183 pictures by Joseph Pennell. Floor
plans and diagrams of the cathedrals are included.Joseph Pennell
was born in 1857 and died in 1926. He began his work as an
illustrator by selling drawings of south Philadelphia to Scribner's
Monthly in 1881. In addition to his extensive sketches of American
cities, he went to the Panama Canal and sketched a number of
construction sites. He taught etching at the Arts Students' league
in New York, wrote several books, served as an art critic on the
Brooklyn Eagle, and helped run the New Society of Sculptors,
Painters & Engravers.Pennell is considered to have done more
than any other one artist of his time to improve the quality of
illustration both in the United States and abroad and to raise its
status as an art. He produced more than 900 etched and mezzotint
plates, some 621 lithographs, and innumerable drawings and water
colors.
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