View in the Alhambra, Spain
date: label: Date made
content: 1881
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen Ferris sketched and painted this pencil and watercolor view of buildings in the Alhambra complex of Granada, Spain, in 1881. This is not a finished view but a work in progress. The people rendered in pencil outline have not been colored, and there are many second thoughts like the tree at left, which has been enlarged. While in Granada, Ferris wrote a friend that he and his son were busy making sketches “much in memorandum for future use in pictures.” So captivated were they by the city that they spent more than half their Spanish visit there.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Spain
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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.14545
label: catalog number
content: 14545
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
label: Object Name
content: watercolor
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: 35.7 cm x 25.4 cm; 14 1/16 in x 10 in