Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Description
- Architecture and landscape sketch showing a noctural view of the Parthenon in Athens, artificially illuminated with red and green flares in celebration of the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting the city on April 21-22, 1869. Dark, rugged, and loosely rendered terrain ascends from the foreground to the middle distance, where the Parthenon is shown extending obliquely into the distance at left. Its ruinous facade is visible at right, illuminated in green light, while red light shines on the long colonnade at left. Above, a dark night sky lightens at right.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- April 1869
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-671
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 32.9 × 41.4 cm (12 15/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
- made in
- USA
- place depicted
- Athens, Greece
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-671
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c4a53b67-cbe9-4cac-8e98-67d39bfa77d4
