Parthenon at Night, Athens
date: label: Date
content: April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a nocturnal view of the Parthenon in Athens, artificially illuminated with red and green flares in celebration of the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting the city on April 21-22, 1869. Dark, rugged, and loosely rendered terrain ascends from the foreground to the middle distance, where the Parthenon is shown extending obliquely into the distance at left. Its ruinous facade is visible at right, illuminated in green light, while red light shines on the long colonnade at left. Above, a dark night sky lightens at right.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: Athens, Greece
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-671
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 32.9 × 41.4 cm (12 15/16 × 16 5/16 in.)