Moorish Gate, Granada
date: label: date made
content: 1881
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen Ferris’s watercolor view <i>Justicia, Granada</i> shows the Alhambra’s Gate of Justice (<i>Puerta de la Justicia</i>) painted during the artist’s 1881 visit to Spain. In a letter to Sylvester R. Koehler, later Curator of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian, Ferris, deeply moved by his experiences, observed: “‘See the Alhambra and die’ seems a very appropriate expression. I feel it and have more reverence for the Arabs [sic] art than any other school.”
label: Description
content: Today the Gate of Justice is the main entrance to the Alhambra complex, which was completed by the Moors in the fourteenth century. The Spanish, who defeated the Moors in 1492, made later additions.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place presumably made
content: Spain: Andalusia, Granada
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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.14548
label: catalog number
content: 14548
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: watercolor
label: Object Name
content: painting
label: Object Type
content: Watercolor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (part material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 35 cm x 25 cm; 13 3/4 in x 9 13/16 in