Part of Old Wall at Paestum, Italy
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 and architecture sketch showing a view of an old wall at the ancient Roman ruins at Paestum, Italy. The top of the wall extends from the immediate foreground at lower center to the middle distance at center, with the artist ostensibly standing on top of it. Loosely rendered olive trees grow out of the wall at center, while equally loose mountains are shown in the background across flat terrain. The rugged mountain at upper right may be Monte Sottano.
place: label: made in
content: Paestum, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Paestum, Italy
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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: 1917-4-495-b
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 light green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.7 × 44.2 cm (9 3/4 × 17 3/8 in.)