Broken Columns, View from the Parthenon, Athens
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 and architecture sketch showing a view of ruinous columns at the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, and the nearby landscape. Four ancient, broken, and fluted columns extend horizontally across the composition in the immediate foreground, with three truncated columns visible at center. The divisions between the drums, or the cylindrical stone blocks that comprise the various sections of the columns, are clearly visible. Brown residue or detritus is visible along the sides of the columns. The view beyond reveals the rolling and lush landscape of the Attic Plain with the blue-green Saronic Gulf beyond. Distant mountains are faintly visible in the background beneath a blue sky with sporadic puffy clouds.
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: 1917-4-573-c
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: 28.2 × 38.2 cm (11 1/8 × 15 1/16 in.)