Joseph Pennell - Coney Island - Public domain drawing

New York City. View from above of crowd jammed around circular platform built over water containing ringmaster and performers, colorful flying creatures above, exotic towers, flags in background.
Exhibited: The Pennell Legacy: Two Centuries of Printmaking, An Exhibition at the Library of Congress, December 1983 through May 1984.
Inscribed on window mat: 70.
This work is dated ca. 1904 in Pennell Legacy exhibition catalogue.
Wuerth, L.A. List of original drawings and paintings, follows indexed group of published in Van Dyke's The New New York with annotation: the following drawing done at this time , but not reproduced as The circus, Luna Park, Coney Island.
Bequest; Joseph Pennell Estate; 1926-1937; (PR 06 CN 316.1796).
Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection.
Good condition.