The Parthenon from the North, Athens, Greece
date: label: Date
content: April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture sketch showing a view of the ruinous Parthenon in Athens, Greece, from the north. Viewed directly, the temple's northern colonnade is shown with several broken and missing columns at center--famously, a result of the 1687 explosion of Turkish gunpowder that destroyed much of the structure. The standing columns and intact entablatures are rendered dark and enshrouded, due to the sun's position high the sky. Beams of sunlight rain down from above long the upper margin. In the foreground, rocky terrain and scattered ruins are loosely rendered.
place: label: made in
content: Athens, Greece
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: 1917-4-378-a
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.6 × 20.9 cm (4 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.)