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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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