Circular Pedestal in the Dionysus Theater, 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 a circular pedestal in or near the Dionysus Theater in Athens, Greece. Prominently situated in the foreground at center, the pedestal is decorated with carved, bearded faces with exaggerated laughing expressions. One face is frontally viewed at center, while another is visible in right profile along the right edge. Each face is connected by a hanging wreath with a floating rosette above it. The base of the pedestal is ornately carved. A small plant is visible at the right of the base, rendered in greater detail than the terrain around the pedestal, which is made of up a loose collection of green and brown brushstrokes that indicate grass and soil.
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: 1917-4-580
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil paint, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 25.6 × 32.8 cm (10 1/16 × 12 15/16 in.)