Acropolis at Corinth, 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 the acropolis at Cornith, Greece, also known as the Acrocorinth, as seen from the sea. At center left, the rocky prominence is rounded in shape and forms the peak of a small ridge, which descends gently to the right. Foreground is indistinct, likely seawater.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscapes sketches showing three separate views of coastal mountains and cliffs around the Aegean Sea near Greece, as seen from the water. At left and oriented to the left, a view of a rugged, cliff-strewn coastline near Cephalonia is shown. At upper right, a rocky coastline with a mountain in the background is visible, while below, sharp mountain peaks rise from behind a ridge.
place: label: place depicted
content: Greece
label: place depicted
content: Greece
label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-166
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
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 and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.5 cm (4 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)