View from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, Part One
date: label: Date
content: April 20, 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 the first part of a panoramic view of Athens, Greece, and the Acropolis from the southern slope of the hill. This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves with 1917-4-595-b. The top of a stone wall in the foreground at lower right extends directly toward the middle distance. The southwest corner of the Parthenon is visible atop a rise in the terrain in the upper right corner. Immediately to the left of the foreground wall, the arched rear wall of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus is briefly visible, situated at the base of the southern flank of the Acropolis. In the middle distance at center, the Hill of Muses, also known as Philopappou Hill, gently rises across the terrain to its rounded summit at left, crowned with the prominent Philopappos Monument. At the base of the hill at center, dark, rock-cut openings in a cliffside indicate the so-called Prison of Socrates (erroneously labeled by the artist as the Tomb of Cimon, which isn't visible from the Acropolis) . Relatively flat terrain dotted with olive trees extends to the background, where the peaks of the Aigaleo range and those on the island of Salamis form a rugged horizon at center and right. At left, distant mountains visible across the Saronic Gulf also constitute a sharp horizon.
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: 1917-4-595-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 × 44 cm (11 7/8 × 17 5/16 in.)