![The line block image is in portrait orientation. The viewer stands at street level, looking from the sidewalk into the city of London toward the Dome of St Paul’s Cathedral. The foreground is cut into two sections: the road is pictured on the left third, and the sidewalk on the right two-thirds. The sidewalk has horizontal lines every few feet. A third of the way up the page, on the right-hand side, a man, child , and woman walk toward the viewer. The man, situated on the left of this group, is wearing a top hat and a long double-breasted overcoat that falls to just below his knees. He is mid-step and has his chest puffed forward with his hands out slightly from his body. The boy beside him on the right is half his height, also wearing a top hat, and cut-away coat and pants. The woman to the right is wearing a floor-length dress with puffy sleeves that end at her elbow. She is wearing a hat. Behind these three figures on the right side of the page is the profile of a large building with eight tall pillars holding up a roof that juts out over the sidewalk. The roof is partially visible at the top edge of the page, and the building itself is outside the frame on the right side of the page. Looking straight through the space between the pillars at the building front, the buildings at the end of the street are visible. The road is empty and free of any vehicles. In the far distance, a coach and horses appear on the road, headed off into the distance. In the mid-ground on the left side of the page is another pillared building, but this one looks much smaller because of perspective. The pillars hold up a roof that extends further out to the road in some spots, and at the base of the pillars is an elevation that is raised above the ground at least double the height of a person. The building has a sidewalk in front of it and on the sidewalk groups of people gather, walking towards the distance. In the distance on the left side of the page a dome protrudes above the roof of the pillared building. In the central background is a church steeple with six pillars holding up an A-line roof at the front. The steeple has an extremely tall and pointed column rising up from the middle, above two stacked square rooms that are smaller than the main building. On the front of the bottom stacked room is a clock face that appears just above the A-line roof. Above the clock face, in the second stacked room is a large front-facing window. Just above the window is a circular windowed room. On top of the stacked rooms is the pointed extension of a column, topped by a weathervane or cross. The sky behind the city scape has huge clouds blooming up and out. In the very foreground, on the line separating sidewalk from road, is the artist’s signature: “PENNELL” [caps] with two lines underlining the partial text “ENNE” [caps] in the name.](http://beta.1890s.ca/wp-content/uploads/SAVOYV2_icon4_pennell_london.jpg "SAVOYV2_icon4_pennell_london")
MLA citation:
Pennell, Joseph. “Classic London.” The Savoy, vol. 2, April 1896, p. 23. The Savoy Digital Edition, edited by Christopher Keep and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra 2018-2019. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019, https://1890s.ca/savoyv2_pennell_london/