The Parthenon and Erechtheion, Athens, 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: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view of the Parthenon and the Erechtheion on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece. The foreground is strewn with architectural fragments, including the capital of a Corinthian column at lower center, just in front of a headless statue of an enrobed woman, likely Athena. A group of stone blocks and bricks is visible in the foreground at right, while behind it, the facade of the Parthenon--viewed frontally--rises handsomely. Its prominent colonnade and ruinous pediment are rendered with precision. Behind the Parthenon at left, the Erechtheion is shown with its trademark caryatids (or columns in the form of female figures) prominently visible. Other architectural ruins are visible at far left. A rugged mountain range extends across the horizon in the background.
place: label: place depicted
content: Athens, Greece
label: made in
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: 1917-4-325
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 × 54.6 cm (11 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.)