
Classical Ruins, Syria
Oil sketch of classical ruin. Foreground is filled with architectural fragments. Three Corinthian columns with entablature and fragment of another column stand upright. The upper parts of the columns are lit by the setting sun. An arch of the substructure and a seated Bedouin are shown in the right center of the foreground.
Credit: Gift of Louis P. Church
May 1868
Graphite, oil on academy board
1917-4-1081
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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