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Towers of San Gimignano, Outside theWalls, 1883. Etching on cream wove paper.
Etching on cream wove paper · Plate: 21.6 × 32 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Towers of San Gimignano, Outside theWalls
- Artist
- Joseph Pennell American, 1857-1926
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Etching on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 21.6 × 32 cm (8 9/16 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 34.2 × 44 cm (13 1/2 × 17 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Martin A. Ryerson
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1857–1926
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.