Rainy Night, Charing Cross Shops

An etching of a rainy night in a city street, with lit shop windows and figures holding umbrellas crowding a sloping pavement beneath a pale moon. Dense, fine hatched lines render the falling rain and dark sky, while a bare tree frames the right edge.

Artist

Joseph Pennell

Date

1903

Medium

Etching on ivory wove paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2415 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection