Drawing, Broken Columns, View from the Parthenon, Athens, April 1869, Frederic Edwin Church, April 1869

Oil sketch of ruined columns. The lower part of a standing column and the neighboring four fragments of columns, in the western part of the south side of the parthenon, shown from the inside. Detailed landscape background. Part of the wall is sketched upon the lateral margin which shows, as does the bottom margin, brownish grounding color. Date: April 1869. Dimensions: 28.2 × 38.2 cm (11 1/8 × 15 1/16 in.); ; Mat: 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.). Medium: brush and oil, graphite, paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Broken Columns, View from the Parthenon, Athens, April 1869 (CH 18199569-2)