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Parthenon at Night, Athens
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Architecture and landscape sketch showing a nocturnal view of the Parthenon in Athens, artificially illuminated with red and green flares in celebration of the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting the city on April 21-22, 1869. Dark, rugged, and loosely rendered terrain ascends from the foreground to the middle distance, where the Parthenon is shown extending obliquely into the distance at left. Its ruinous facade is visible at right, illuminated in green light, while red light shines on the long colonnade at left. Above, a dark night sky lightens at right.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineParthenon at Night, Athens. April 1869. Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Louis P. Church. CC0.
