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Hudson Avenue Completed - Brooklyn Edison Co. by Joseph Pennell

Hudson Avenue Completed - Brooklyn Edison Co. by Joseph Pennell

Hudson Avenue Completed - Brooklyn Edison Co.

Joseph Pennell

Title

Hudson Avenue Completed - Brooklyn Edison Co.

 
Artist

Joseph Pennell

  1857 - 1926 (biography)
Year
1923  
Technique
etching, printed in sepia ink 
Image Size
8 15/16 x 13" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower center 
Edition Size
not stated 
Annotations
signed in the plate, lower center 
Reference
Pennell 804, illus. p. 275 
Paper
delicate antique-white laid 
State
proof 
Publisher
Brooklyn Edison Co. 
Inventory ID
ROJA159 
Price
SOLD
Description
Joseph Pennell despicts the Hudson Avenue power plant, built by Consolidated Edison Co., resting at the edge of the lower East River with the Manhattan Bridge in the midground and the silhouette of the Woolworth's building in the background. The plant provided electricity to Brooklyn and Queens, and steam to Manhattan for heating and hot water - the largest commercial steam system in the United States at the time. The plant was fully shuttered in 2011. Pennell was commissioned to create this image by the Brooklyn Edison Co. upon completion of the building's renovations, though it wasn't finalized until 1924.