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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.","physicalDescription":"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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Bought from Mrs Jackson in 1883.\r\n\r\nThis drawing relates to Vol I Plate 41 (right hand design) in <i>Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra</i> by Owen Jones, 'Sala de los Embaxadores, mosaic dados on pillars between windows'.\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. 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