Temples of Hera and Athena 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: Architecture and landscape sketch of the Temples of Hera I and II and the Temple of Athena at Paestum, Italy. Viewed across briars, loose stones, and a group of grazing oxen in the foreground, the Temple of Hera I is prominently positioned in the middle distance at center right, and is viewed obliquely. The Temple of Hera II is visible just beyond it at left, with its pediment and entablature still largely intact. In the background at left, the Temple of Athena is shown from the side, flanked by trees and backdropped by a faintly rendered and rugged mountain range. Three details of doric columns are sketched at upper left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch from Italy showing two loosely rendered structures on rolling terrain in the middle distance, backdropped by a rugged mountain range with sharp peaks.
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: 1917-4-592
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 brown wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 30.1 × 54.5 cm (11 7/8 × 21 7/16 in.)