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Column Drum, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
April 14-25, 1869
- Medium
- Graphite on tan laid paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 10.5 × 20.5 cm (4 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Greece
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Field sketch showing the drum of a fluted column, likely on the Acropolis in Athens. Loosely and hastily rendered, the ground below the column fragment is vaguely discernable. It's vertical, fluted striations, however, are clearly distinct, shown partially in shadow. The sketch is situated in the leaf's upper left corner, while the remainder is blank.
