Mt. Parnassus and a Flock of Sheep, Athens, Greece
date: label: Date
content: April 14-25, 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, at center, of the snow-capped Mt. Parnassus in the distance and the moutain range to which it belongs. At right, the vertical, almost columnar form of the Philopappos Monument is visible. In the lower portion of the composition, another view of a snow-capped mountain range is visible. At upper left, a sketch of a shepherd leading a flock of twelve sheep is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of rugged hills in the middle distance and taller, snow-capped mountains in the background. At center left, the vertical, columnar form of the Philopappos Monument is visible atop a rocky prominence. At extreme left, the snow-capped Mt. Parnassus is shown.
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: 1917-4-441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17 cm (4 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.)