The entrance to the Sala de las Dos Hermanas in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Details

John Frederick Lewis R.A., (London, 1805-1876 Walton-on-Thames)
The entrance to the Sala de las Dos Hermanas in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain
signed and inscribed 'SALA DEL LAS DOS HERMANAS J.F. Lewis' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on buff paper
10¾ x 13 in. (27.3 x 33 cm.)

Provenance

with Colnaghi, London, where purchased by Brinsley Ford, London, 1951.

Literature

Major-General J.M. Lewis, J.F. Lewis R.A. 1805-1876, London, 1878, no. 143, p. 66.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Bicentenary exhibition, 1968, no. 582.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, J.F. Lewis, 1971, no. 16.
Wildenstein, London, Richard Ford in Spain: catalogue of a loan exhibition in aid of the National Art-Collections Fund, June - July 1974, no. 23.

Engraved

Engraved by W. Gauci, for J.D. Harding, W. Gauci and R.J. Lane, Lewis's Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra: Made During a Residence in Granada, in the Years 1833-4, 1835, pl. 14.

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Lot Essay

Lewis lived in Spain from the summer of 1832 to the spring of 1833. He first visited Madrid followed by Granada. Here he began his first sustained forays into architectural drawings of the Alhambra, the palace and fortress of the Moorish Kings. He remained in Granada until 12 November 1832 when he departed for Seville via Cordova. As a result of his trip Lewis published two sets of lithographs, his Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra and his Sketches of Spain and Spanish characters, 1837.

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