Ctesiphon

It is a picture of one of the so-called Seven Wonders of the World, the Arch of Ctesiphon in Iraq.

He also swung by Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City, which is showing one of Stella's paintings from 1968, "Ctesiphon I," as part of the group exhibition "Openness and Clarity: Color Field Works From the 1960s and 1970s."

At issue is the loan of Frank Stella’s monumental canvas “Ctesiphon I,” which entered MOCA’s collection 14 years ago and has been shown there many times.

Soon after leaving Ctesiphon there is increased cultivation, and within a few miles of Baghdad the banks 23 of the river, which is its great high road, become populous.

As we were writing in the evening we were nearly thrown off our chairs by running aground with a thump, which injured one paddle wheel and obliged us to lie up part of the night for repairs near the ruins of the ancient palace of Ctesiphon.