Mount Pentelicus, 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: Landscape sketch showing a view of Mt. Pentelicus in Athens, Greece, possibly from Filothei Hill. Dotted with green shrubs, a dark, rocky ridge extends across the immediate foreground. Beyond it, a craggy prominence with rocky pinnacles is visible at center, while the nearby hill range extends out of view at left. In the middle distance, the terrain descends to a green, cultivated valley before rising in the background to a long, gray and purple mountain range. Situated in the background at center, the summit of Mt. Pentelicus helps form a shallow, triangular horizon. The blue sky above is devoid of clouds.
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 Eliot C. Clark in memory of his father
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-133-1
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
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 off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 32.8 × 50.9 cm (12 15/16 × 20 1/16 in.)