Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: John Frederick Lewis, a young artist and a master of line drawing, painted some works considered among the most beautiful images of the Alhambra in all its graphic history. These drawings, most of them devoted to the Nasrid palaces, were published in 1835 as lithographs. The present study shows some of Lewis’s precise originals, not widely known, made around 1832-33. These drawings, nowadays scattered across museums or private collections, possess a great documentary value regarding this monument listed as world cultural heritage. Lewis’s friendship with other artists of the period who also took interest in the Alhambra has also been analyzed; his relationship with painter David Roberts, and especially with Richard Ford and his wife Harriet.
Author: Antonio Gámiz Gordo
Institution: Universidad de Sevilla
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2053160397