Patmos at Sunset, Greece
date: label: Date
content: May 29, 1868
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 distant view of the rugged Greek island of Patmos as the sun sets over the Aegean Sea. Water extends from foreground to background, where the island is visible. Multiple peaks along rugged mountain ranges are visible throughout the island. A few small, puffy clouds hang in the sky while the sun descends toward the horizon at right. In addition, a sketch of a sailboat is shown in upper left corner.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketches from around the Aegean Sea showing a sailboat with two figures, viewed in profile at upper left, and the upper portion of a pointed minaret, visible at lower left and oriented to the left.
place: label: made in
content: Patmos, Greece
label: place depicted
content: Patmos, 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: 1917-4-1180
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.4 × 21.1 cm (4 7/8 × 8 5/16 in.)