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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. The series of drawings: 9156B, 9156C, 9156D, 9156G and 9156H all show the workings-out of Jones' theories of primary polychromy. They are all edge sections from plaster arches and it is highly unlikely that any original colour actually survived on these elements in the 1830s, however, his study of the Alhambra's ornament had cemented his belief that the building had originally been brightly painted in the three primary colours - red, blue and yellow (gold).","physicalDescription":"Edge section drawing from plaster arches, partially coloured in brown, red and blue","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Jones, Owen","id":"A8559"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pen and ink","id":"x30618"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"THES250889"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"The paper has pricking all over the drawing which shows where Jones applied the compass point to create the circular design of this 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":["2010EC5499"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"A","shelf":"202","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1809 to 1874","earliest":"1809-01-01","latest":"1874-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"9156C","id":"O683714"},"association":"Series"},{"object":{"text":"9156D","id":"O683713"},"association":"Series"},{"object":{"text":"9156G","id":"O683710"},"association":"Series"},{"object":{"text":"9156H","id":"O683709"},"association":"Series"},{"object":{"text":"9156A","id":"O683716"},"association":"Series"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"12.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"10/01/2024","earliest":"2024-01-10","latest":"2024-01-10"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"17.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"10/01/2024","earliest":"2024-01-10","latest":"2024-01-10"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Contains an Arabic inscription but it is mounted upside down. It reads, 'al-hamdu lillah', 'praise be to God', one of the many small blessings inscribed all over the Alhambra's architecture.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Source: Marian Rosser Owen"}],"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 II Plate 38: caption 'Borders of arches', no location specified in <i>Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra</i> by Owen Jones.\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 edge sections from plaster arches from the Alhambra, 19th century, Owen Jones","bibliographicReferences":[{"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. 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