The Ilissus, from the Parthenon West Pediment, 1829 or 1830

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Black chalk heightened with white chalk on grayish blue wove paper

  • Sheet: 14 3/4 × 18 inches (37.5 × 45.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.474

1939-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2018, pp. 159-160, cat. 23 (ill.).

Thomas Cole, The Ilissus, from the Parthenon West Pediment, 1829 or 1830, black chalk heightened with white chalk on grayish blue wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.474.