The Arabian Antiquities Of Spain. By James Cavanah Murphy.
RA Collection: Book
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Physical Description
General Note
Contents
Responsibility Note
Each plate - and the title-plate - carries the imprint of Cadell and Davies, with the date (June 1st 1815).
The one headpiece is unsigned by draughtsman or engraver, but carries the imprint of Cadell and Davies, and the date (April 28th 1812).
References
On the reception of Arab styles see J. Sweetman, The oriental obsession (1988); Tonia Raquejo, 'The "Arab cathedrals": Moorish architecture as seen by British travellers', in Burlington magazine, 128 (1986 August), p.555-63; M. Darby, The Islamic perspective: aspects of British architecture and design in the nineteenth century (1983).
Summary Note
Plates and text describe the mosque at Córdoba (pl. 1-9) and Alhambra and the Generalife at Granada (pl. 10-97).
Provenance
Binding Note
Subject
Architecture, Arab - Interior decoration - Fortresses - Palaces - Spain - Andalucia - Granada - Alhambra - Generalife - History - 13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
Contributors
John Le Keux, engraver
Henry Le Keux, engraver
Edmund Turrell, engraver
John Shury, engraver
James Neagle, engraver
Samuel Porter, engraver
J. Warner, engraver
Samuel Rawle, engraver
James Fittler ARA, engraver
John Walker, engraver
J. Taylor, engraver
John Landseer ARA, engraver
George Cooke, engraver
William Woolnoth, engraver
Cosmo Armstrong, engraver
Frederick Rudolph Hay, engraver
William Angus, engraver
John Byrne, engraver
John Lee, engraver
Thomas Cadell the younger, publisher
William Davies, publisher
James Cavanah Murphy, draughtsman
Cadell and Davies (London), publisher
Images from this book
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Engraved title page
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Plate 20: The Hall of the Baths, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 21: A Section of the Hall of the Baths, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 22: Ceiling of the Hall of the Baths, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 23: The King's Baths, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 24: The Queen's Baths, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 24: The Queen's Baths, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 28: Elevation of a Small Portico Near the Chapel, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 29: North Side of the Pateo del Agua, or Great Fountain, Alhambra palace, Granada / James Cavanah Murphy's The Arabian Antiquities of Spain, published by Cadell & Davies (London: June 1st 1815)
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Plate 31: View of the South Side of the Pateo del Agua, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 32: Elevation of an Alcove in the Pateo del Agua, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 33: A perspective View of the Court and Fountain of Lions
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Plate 34: Elevation of the Fountain of Lions, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 35: Hall of the Two Sisters
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Plate 39: Hall of the Abencerrages, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 40: A Perspective view of the Golden Saloon Hall of Ambassador, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 55: Mosaic in the Hall of Abencerrages, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Plate 58: Mosaic in Portico of the Generaliffe, Alhambra palace, Granada
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Cornices, Capitals, and Columns in the Alham[b]ra
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Plate 5: Interior View of the Mosque in Cordova
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Plate 6: Elevation of the Gate of the Sanctuary of the Koran, Mosque of Cordova
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Plate 43: A Lion Hunt, from an Arabian Painting in The Alham[b]ra
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Plate 44: A Boar Hunt, from an Arabian Painting in The Alham[b]ra