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Oil and graphite sketch of a green and ochre coastal landscape with a pale sea and hazy hills, and faint pencil outlines of boats below.

Sea View from Athens, Greece, Oil and Graphite Study

An oil sketch on paperboard shows a green and ochre coastal landscape rising toward a pale blue sea and distant hazy hills under a warm, muted sky. Below the landscape, the lower part of the sheet is left bare, with two faint graphite outlines of boat-like forms near the bottom edge.

Artist
Frederic Edwin Church
Date
April 14-24, 1869
Medium
Oil paint and graphite on paperboard
Source
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size
4000 × 3453 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1869).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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