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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, Vol. 22: Published at Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, by the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art; October 1926 There is no question that Pennell himself was a master of technique, and that this mastery-was due to hard work. Whistler, so Pennell says, spent three weeks drawing on the plate of The Black Lion Wharf. How hard I tried to approach it! Pennell adds. He was a prodigious worker and sound technician. But he was not a student of human nature. He did not follow Rembrandt and the old Dutch masters in the study of human life. Activities, not emotions, interested him; his appeal is not to the hearts and souls of humanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.