The Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching by Thomas Cole

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Painting of a Doric temple on a hilltop with a seated artist sketching and a boy on a donkey in the foreground.

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The Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching, Thomas Cole (1842), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Via artnap.com

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This oil painting shows a Doric temple with a colonnade standing on a grassy hilltop above a deep ravine, overlooking a wide green plain and a distant mountain range.

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1842

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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