View of Athens, Greece, Part One
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: Landscape and architecture sketch showing the first part of a panoramic view of Athens, Greece, and the Acropolis from the southeast. This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves with 1917-4-650-b. In the foreground, a large, cylindrical, stone windmill is perched atop a prominent hill at right. Just beyond it, at far right, the ruinous structures and still-standing columns of the Temple of Olympian Zeus (beside the Arch of Hadrian) are visible beneath the Acropolis, which looms over the scene in the middle distance at upper right. The fragmented Parthenon is clearly distinguishable on top of it and viewed obliquely. At the base of the left slope, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus is shown with its tall walls. In the middle distance at center, the Philopappos Monument is clearly visible atop a prominent hill known as the Hill of Muses, or Philopappou Hill. Between this hill and the Acropolis, the Pynx ceremonial hill is also visible. The terrain at left is marked with several small hills, one of which hosts a windmill, before reaching the seashore at far left. In the background, the rugged mountains of Salamis (at left) and the Egaleo range (at right) form a serrated 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: 1917-4-650-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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.4 × 44.1 cm (9 5/8 × 17 3/8 in.)