View of the Acropolis from Lycabettus Hill, 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: Landscape sketch showing a view of the Acropolis and Athens, Greece, from Lycabettus Hill north of the Acropolis. In the foreground, a grassy hillside gently arches from lower left to center right, in front of the rocky, rugged peak of Lycabettus Hill. In the middle distance at left, a large domed building--possibly the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens--is prominently visible within a group of buildings that blanket the ground below the Acropolis, which rises abruptly at left. The Parthenon and the Erechtheion on the flat top of the Acropolis, while beside it at center, the small, domed National Observatory of Athens is perched atop the Hill of the Nymph. The Temple of Hephaestus is visible at the base of this hill, to the right of the Observatory. Rolling terrain extends to the Saronic Sea in the background, bounded by the rugged mountains of Salamis and those west of Athens, which 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: 1917-4-901
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 × 54.6 cm (11 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.)