Ionian Sea near Corfu, 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: Landscape sketch showing a view of clouds over the Ionian Sea near Corfu, Greece. Water extends from foreground to the horizon, where several clouds are visible--notably a puffy bank at left. Above, hazy and billowing clouds alike inhabit an otherwise open sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of coastal mountains in Greece, seen from the sea. Water extends from foreground to the background, where it meets the shore. Above, rugged, rolling mountain ridges loom over the sea and stretch across the composition. Multiple sharp peaks are visible. Above, thin, wispy clouds float in the sky.
place: label: made in
content: Corfu, Greece
label: place depicted
content: Corfu, 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: 1917-4-404
objectType: label: Type
content: seascapes
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.4 cm (4 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)