Etching, 8 1/2"x 11", edition of 40, pencil signed, "Five Towns" in lower left in pencil. Appears in ‘Joseph Pennell's Pictures of the Wonder of Work"(1916, published by Lippincott) as Plate XXXIII, with this note from Pennell: "On its little hill, entirely covering it among the Five Towns, stands this work town. Pottery kilns and chimneys, and not church spires and campanile, crown it. But in that land of work—coal mines and factory stacks about—it is perfect as a composition—as fine as any of the little towns Rembrandt drew and Dürer built. I don't even know its name.” Pennell was a prolific artist in writer, who completed over 1800 etchings and lithos, including many European scenes like this one. His work is moody and refined, and clearly influenced by Whistler.