# Column Drum, Athens, Greece

- By: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22303)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/7fbfc1596ba2c1eb7398a99223648298.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.