Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Goury, Jules, 1803-1834

Title:

Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra / from drawings taken on the spot in 1834 by Jules Goury, and in 1834 and 1837 by Owen Jones ; with a complete translation of the Arabic inscriptions, and an historical notice of the kings of Granada from the conquest of that city by the Arabs to the expulsion of the Moors, by Pasqual de Gayangos.

Alternate Title(s):

Alhambra palais

Published / Created:

London : Published by Owen Jones, 1842-1845.

Physical Description:

2 v. : ill. ; 60 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B N 15

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Related Content:

View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:117070

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 156

Comprises 104 plates, including 69 chromolithographs; each of the chromolithographs is printed in as many as six or seven colors, including gold .

Vol. 1 has added chromolithographed title page: La Alhambra palais ... 1841.

Vol. 2 has added chromolithographed title page: Details and ornaments from the Alhambra, by Owen Jones, architect.

Chiefly in English and French.

Chromolithographs and lithographs by Owen Jones; after Owen Jones and Jules Goury.

Engravings by W.S. Wilkinson, E. Kennion, T.T. Bury, C. Rauch, Frederick W. Branston, and Henry Vizetelly; after Owen Jones, Jules Goury and "Enrique."

Vol. 1 published in 10 parts in 1842; vol. 2 published in 2 parts in 1845.

"Vizetelly Brothers and Co., printers"; a number of plates printed by Owen Jones.

Friedman, J.M. Color printing in England, 1486-1870, 145

Hardie, M. English coloured books, 252

With a list of subscribers (in Great Britain and France).

Friedman, J. Color printing in England, 1486-1870, 145

Selected exhibitions: "Color Printing in England, 1486-1870" (Yale Center for British Art, 20 April-25 June, 1978).

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards.

"Their aim was not to present topographical views, but rather to provide an exact and detailed record of the decoration of the building, as an aid to fellow-architects who might make use of its motifs in their work."--Friedman.

Exhibition History:

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)

Subject Terms:

Alhambra (Granada, Spain) | Grenada -- History. | Jones, Owen -- Publisher. | Chorn. -- 1842–1845.

Form/Genre:

Chromolithographs -- 1842-1845. | Wood engravings -- 1842-1845. | Lithographs -- 1842-1845. | Engravings -- 1842-1845.

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