Acropolis Amphitheater at Night, Athens, Greece
date: label: Date
content: April 14-25, 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural sketch showing a view overlooking an amphitheater in Greece, likely the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on the Acropolis of Athens. Viewed obliquely, the stepped, stadium seating of the semicircular amphitheater is visible at center. At lower left, the stage and its multi-leveled, multi-arched backdrop is visible. A possible fire burns on the stage, unevenly illuminating the backdrop and the first few rows of seating. It's smoke billows up and over the structure, visible at upper right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Indistinct sketch, possibly a portion of a plant.
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: 1917-4-1510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.6 × 20.8 cm (4 3/16 × 8 3/16 in.)