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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. These designs appear to be plasterwork on the walls of the Alhambra, depicting a delicate cross-section that seem to show the contours of a wall in low relief. It is captioned, 'El Patio de Alharem', Courtyard of the Harem, which is a fragmentary space accessed by a staircase from the Palace of the Lions and not open to the public. It is part of the palace that was demolished during the construction of Charles V's Renaissance palace and today consists of a courtyard with two porticos which preserve plasterwork and wall decoration.","physicalDescription":"Two geometrical designs on paper, one partially filled in","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Jones, Owen","id":"A8559"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pen and ink","id":"x30618"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Ink and pencil 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":["2010EC5468"],"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":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"29","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"10/01/2024","earliest":"2024-01-10","latest":"2024-01-10"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"20.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"10/01/2024","earliest":"2024-01-10","latest":"2024-01-10"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Captioned, 'El Patio de Alharem', Courtyard of the Harem.\r\n\r\nThe light pencil captions beneath the two drawings seem to read (left) 'Ornament A Design No 2' and (right) 'Ornament B Design No 2'.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Mariam 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.\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 plasterwork from the walls of 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. 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":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["9156A"],"accessionNumberNum":"9156","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-09-05","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}