Sketches from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
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: Architecture sketch showing various views of ancient ruins around the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. At far right, the northeastern corner of the Propylaia is shown with several standing, intact columns and a largely broken entablature. At upper center, a corner of the Parthenon is visible beyond a ruinous wall at center. At lower center, bricks and stones are included, while at upper left, the caryatid in the southwest corner of the Erechtheion is shown above a ruinous wall, looking out towards a rolling landscape.
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: 1917-4-379
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 light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.3 × 44.1 cm (9 9/16 × 17 3/8 in.)