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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":"Four small tile mosaic designs","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Jones, Owen","id":"A8559"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"},{"text":"watercolour painting (technique)","id":"THES250889"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on paper","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":["2010EC5495","2006AG1342"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"A","shelf":"202","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","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":"C.350:1-2009","id":"O1171023"},"association":"Design"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"98","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"126","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Las Dos Hermanas'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"The two sisters","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\nThese drawings relate to Vol I Plate 42, Mosaics in the Hall of the Two Sisters in <i>Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the </i><i>Alhambra</i> by Owen Jones. The bottom right design of this plate is one of the designs that Jones copied at the Alhambra Court and seen on the fire surround made from tiles salvaged from the Alhambra Court, Crystal Palace. V&amp;A: C.350-2009, given by Michael Stallybrass.\r\n\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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