1832
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Court of the Mosque, Alhambra is a 1832 by John Lewis, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a pencil drawing from 1832. It shows the courtyard of the Alhambra, a famous palace in Spain. Lewis made it while he lived there for a year. He used Romanticism’s love for detail and mood. The drawing was just a first step before Lewis made colorful prints of the same place. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more.
John Frederick Lewis’s drawing *The Court of the Mosque, Alhambra* was created during his residence in Spain between 1832 and 1833, part of a broader series documenting Spanish life in watercolour and drawing. The work depicts the Alhambra, a notable example of Islamic architecture in Spain, and belongs to a group of lithographs he produced of the site. This piece is among the surviving preliminary studies for those prints.
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John Robert Lewis was an American civil rights activist and statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
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