View of the Sea from Athens, Greece
date: label: Date
content: April 14-19, 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 Aegean Sea and Greek coastline from an elevated point in Athens, Greece. A verdant, rolling landscape comprises the foreground with a strip of water visible across the middle distance. At right, a mountainous coastline is shown rendered in reddish purple. In the background, a sunset sky is rendered in a gradient from red-orange to yellow-green.
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: 1917-4-732
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil paint on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 11.3 × 18.9 cm (4 7/16 × 7 7/16 in.)