Temples of Hera 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 showing oblique views of the Temples of Hera I and II at Paestum, Italy. The Temple of Hera II is prominently featured at right, with its intact pediment, entablature, and colonnades that extend obliquely toward the background. A view of the Temple of Hera I, with its collapsed roof, is partially cut off along the left margin. Brown and grassy soil comprise the foreground, while gray clouds fill the sky above.
place: label: place depicted
content: Paestum, Italy
label: made in
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: 1917-4-331
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 22.7 cm (4 1/2 × 8 15/16 in.)