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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2025

Drawing, View of Athens, Greece, Part Two

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated April 1869 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on light brown wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

30.1 × 54.6 cm (11 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, lower left: L.457c; verso center right: L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper center: smoke; upper right: 2 - orange brown / 3 - green / 4 - grey yel / 5 - blue grey / 6 vivid green; center: Xerxes / Parnassus / pnix / 6 3 / rich coppery brown with / green tufts; center right: 2 2 2 2 / green / 3 4 5 3 2 orange / brown 4 2 / green 3 / Houses / green; lower left: grain; lower right: City has a whitish grey appearance / Athens Two parts / [star]

Cite this object as

Drawing, View of Athens, Greece, Part Two; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on light brown wove paper; 30.1 × 54.6 cm (11 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-650-b

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