Drawing, Drawing. Sketches from Paestum, Southern Italy. a. The Temples shown from the southwest. b. Landscape.

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; verso: graphite. 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 × 54.5 cm (11 7/8 × 21 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, verso lower left: L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left: Temple to right / grey / black / orange brown / orange / black; center left: grey / grey; in graphite, center: green orange upper part grey grey temple / orange orange / grey grey 2 2 / briers Hewnstones; lower left: distant temple, decided grey / Middle temple - warm orange brown- / Columns facing west [arrow pointing left] are grey towards the bases / Rich green on slope of pediment - / Near Temple beautiful grey - But the neck of / columns under capitals are of delicate warm orange brown -; lower center: 2 - pale lilac flowers / ground broken - gulley in foreground with a few loose stones - earth blackish brown - / many weeds, bushes, & bricks, white oxen; lower right: Paestum April 69; verso center right: red / w / grey

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