Hall of the Ambassadors, ornament G
Architectural Drawing
1809 to 1874 (made)
1809 to 1874 (made)
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Owen Jones (1809-1874) was a prolific architect, designer, illustrator and
printer who was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential contemporary figures in art and design theory.
In April 1834, Owen Jones visited the Alhamba, Spain, with his friend, the architect, Jules Goury. During their stay, Goury was a casualty of the severe cholera epidemic that had broken out in Granada and killed 10,000 people. After taking his friend's mortal remains to France, Jones was determined to complete their joint project to produce a full-colour architectural survey of the palaces. He subsequently published at great personal cost his two-volume work, Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra, which featured 68 chromolithographic plates across both volumes, not including the frontispieces and finispieces.
printer who was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential contemporary figures in art and design theory.
In April 1834, Owen Jones visited the Alhamba, Spain, with his friend, the architect, Jules Goury. During their stay, Goury was a casualty of the severe cholera epidemic that had broken out in Granada and killed 10,000 people. After taking his friend's mortal remains to France, Jones was determined to complete their joint project to produce a full-colour architectural survey of the palaces. He subsequently published at great personal cost his two-volume work, Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra, which featured 68 chromolithographic plates across both volumes, not including the frontispieces and finispieces.
Object details
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| Title | Hall of the Ambassadors, ornament G (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Shows the fine pencil grid that Jones drew on the page before he started to indicate the colours of the tiles. Stars have been added into the rest of the design (presumably to help fix points in the design). |
| Brief description | Study drawing of tile mosaic dadoes around the walls of the Hall of the Ambassadors (Comares Hall) from the Alhambra by Owen Jones, 19th century. |
| Physical description | Geometrical tile mosaic design for the Hall of the Ambassadors, Alhambra, Spain. A quarter of the design is coloured in and only a small part of the border. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Captioned in French: 'Salle des Ambassadeurs, ornement G'. (The Hall of the Ambassadors is now more widely known as the Comares Hall.) |
| Credit line | Mrs Jackson |
| Object history | One of a number of drawings of wall decoration in the Alhambra, museum numbers 9156.A to O. Bought from Mrs Jackson in 1883. This drawing relates to Vol I Plate 41 (right hand design) in Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra by Owen Jones, 'Sala de los Embaxadores, mosaic dados on pillars between windows'. Owen Jones worked as an architect and designer. After training under Lewis Vulliamy, he took his Grand Tour in 1832, travelling to Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Spain. With the French architect Jules Goury, he carried out a detailed survey of the Alhambra palace in Spain, which he published in 1842 to 1845. It is one of the first examples of chromolithography in Britain. Designer, writer and architect, he was educated at the Academy Schools. He toured the Middle East and Spain in 1833 and 1834. He published 'Plans, Sections and Details of the Alhambra' in 1842. |
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| Summary | Owen Jones (1809-1874) was a prolific architect, designer, illustrator and printer who was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential contemporary figures in art and design theory. In April 1834, Owen Jones visited the Alhamba, Spain, with his friend, the architect, Jules Goury. During their stay, Goury was a casualty of the severe cholera epidemic that had broken out in Granada and killed 10,000 people. After taking his friend's mortal remains to France, Jones was determined to complete their joint project to produce a full-colour architectural survey of the palaces. He subsequently published at great personal cost his two-volume work, Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra, which featured 68 chromolithographic plates across both volumes, not including the frontispieces and finispieces. |
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| Accession number | 9156M |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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