Gulf of Corinth, Greece
date: label: Date
content: April 26-27, 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 rugged, rocky hills along the Greek coast in the Gulf of Corinth, viewed from the water. In the foreground, water extends to the middle distance, where it meets the rocky coastline, highlighted in white gouache. In the background, taller, sharper, snow-capped mountains are visible. Dark clouds hang in the sky above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a mill built on a rugged coastline in Cephalonia, Greece. In the foreground, water stretches to the middle distance, where it meets the shoreline. At center, the mill building is showing with its wheel facing the viewer. Behind it, two other structures are built on a gradually inclining hillside. In the background, two taller, more rugged hills are shown, one with a wide structure at its peak.
place: label: place depicted
content: Greece
label: place depicted
content: Greece
label: possibly 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: 1917-4-179
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 and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.4 cm (4 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)