{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O683702"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O683702/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EC5511/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EC5511/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2010EC5511","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2014HF7160","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O683702/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O683702","accessionNumber":"9156O","objectType":"Architectural drawing (visual work)","titles":[{"title":"Drawing of the wooden ceiling in the Comares Throne Hall","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"Owen Jones (1809-1874) was a prolific architect, designer, illustrator and \r\nprinter who was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential contemporary figures in art and design theory.\r\n\r\nIn 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, <i>Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra, </i>which featured 68 chromolithographic plates across both volumes, not including the frontispieces and finispieces. This drawing is an ambitious rendering of the spectacular wooden ceiling in the Comares Throne Hall which was created in the middle of the 14th century to span a space of 11.3m square and constructed from over 8000 individual wooden elements. The drawing also represents as a cross-section, the tiny muqarnas cupola with which the Comares ceiling culminates and a ceiling on the left hand side which may be the ceiling for the portico in front of the Throne Hall. The ceiling is one of the most important wooden ceilings on the Iberian Peninsula. ","physicalDescription":"Geometrical design of two wooden ceilinsg rendered as a flat drawing in brown ink or watercolour, the pattern partly filled with green. At the centre of the drawing is a cross section of a cupola.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Jones, Owen","id":"A8559"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"pencil, ink and watercolour drawing","categories":[{"text":"Architecture","id":"THES48993"},{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"},{"text":"Ornament","id":"THES266277"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2010EC5511","2014HF7160"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"A","shelf":"204","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Spain","id":"x29170"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"},{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1830s","earliest":"1830-01-01","latest":"1839-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"322","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"386","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"In pencil: 'La Alhambra. Plafond de la salle de Ambassadeurs'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"One of a number of drawings of wall decoration in the Alhambra, museum numbers 9156.A to O. Bought from Mrs Jackson in 1883.\r\n\r\nThis drawing relates to Vol I Plate 8 + Ceiling in <i>Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra</i> by Owen Jones.\r\n\r\nOwen 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.\r\n\r\nDesigner, 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.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing of the wooden ceiling of the Comares Throne Hall of the Alhambra by Owen Jones, 19th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Labrusse, Remi. <i>Islamophilie. L'Europe moderne et les arts de l'Islam.</i> Lyon : Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2011","id":"AUTH354352"},"details":"14","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Owen Jones, <u>Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra, Vol. I</u>, 1842, pl. VIII"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Unpublished paper by Mariam Rosser-Owen delivered at the conference <i>Definining Owen Jones (1809-1874): Architect and Designer for a Modern Age</i>\r\non 1-2 October, 2024 at the Sultan Nazanin Shah Conference Centre, Worcester College, Oxford, UK"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Jones, Owen, and Vizetelly Brothers & Co. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra. Translated by Pascual de Gayangos. Illustrated by Jules Goury, Owen Jones, 1845."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Alhambra","id":"x38957"}],"associatedPlaces":[{"text":"Alhambra","id":"x38957"}],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"","id":""},{"text":"ceilings","id":"AAT2031"},{"text":"geometry","id":"AAT54529"},{"text":"interior decoration","id":"AAT161596"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["9156O"],"accessionNumberNum":"9156","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-09-05","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}