The Parthenon and Ruined Fragments, Athens, 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: Architecture sketch showing a view of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, from the west. Ruinous blocks and fragmented columns and their drums litter the terrain in the foreground, while the Parthenon itself stretches horizontally across the composition in the middle distance. At center, two damaged columns stand isolated from the rest, indicating the epicenter of the blast that destroyed the original Parthenon, that sent ruinous fragments into the places they now reside. At left and right, the intact Doric colonnades and entablatures of the Parthenon's fore- and rear facades stand resolutely. The interior of the temple at right is heavily shaded. Between the two facades, the artist included two lines indicating the course of the missing entablature/roof.
label: Description
content: Verso: Indistinct landscape sketch from Athens, Greece, showing the outline of a rugged mountain ridge with an arched ruin.
place: label: place depicted
content: Athens, Greece
label: made in
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: 1917-4-378-c
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 gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30 × 54.5 cm (11 13/16 × 21 7/16 in.)