Name of Object:

Details and ornaments from the Alhambra by Owen Jones, Architect

Location:

Madrid, Spain

Holding Institution:

National Museum of Decorative Arts

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Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas

Date of Object:

1845

Author:

Owen Jones (1809, 1874)

Inventory Number:

501057791

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Paper and ink; printed

Dimensions:

68 x 48,5 x 3,7 cm

Description:

The influence of the Islamic art also arrived through different publications as the well-known Owen Jones's books and the pieces displayed in the International Exhibitions, as in the first one in London where Owen Jones displayed the Lion fountain of the Alhambra Palace in a building dedicated to master works of art. This book was well-known for many of the Orientalist artists as an example for decoration and the use of the colour.

Type of Object

Book

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

Plans, elevations, sections and details of the Alhambra from drawings taken on the spot 1834 by the late M. Jules Goury and in 1834 and 1837 by Owen Jones, Archt. With a complete translation of the Arabic inscriptions and an historical notices of the Kings of Granada, from the conquest of that city by Arab to the expulsion of the Moors, by Mr. Pascual de Gayangos, vol. II.

Citation of this web page:

Ana Cabrera "Details and ornaments from the Alhambra by Owen Jones, Architect" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;es;56;en

Prepared by: Ana Cabrera
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: SP 056