The Travellers, Charleroi

Joseph Pennell

National Gallery of Art

The image shows an industrial scene with many buildings, chimneys, machinery, and smoke filling the sky. There are various smokestacks emitting smoke. The brushstrokes are detailed, depicting textures through lines and shading. The color palette is monochromatic in black, white, and gray. People and a railway line are visible, illustrating the scale of the scene, with large factory structures and machinery in the distance.