<i>Torre del Oro, Seville</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1881
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: While traveling in southern Spain in the summer of 1881, Stephen Ferris drew Seville’s <i>Torre del Oro</i> or Golden Tower in ink. The two lower sections of the tower were built by the Moors in the thirteenth century and the top section added by the Spanish in the eighteenth. Ferris, who was interested in Moorish architecture, merely recorded the outline of the top section in dots.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Spain: Andalusia, Seville
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14537
label: catalog number
content: 14537
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (sheet material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (image material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 12.9 cm; 7 3/32 in x 5 3/32 in