Puerto del Vino, Alhambra, Granada

细节

John Frederick Lewis, R.A., P.O.W.S. (1805-1876)
Puerto del Vino, Alhambra, Granada
inscribed and dated 'PUERTA DEL VINO' (lower left) and 'Alhambra July. 13 1833' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on grey paper
10 5/8 x 14¾ in. (27 x 37.5 cm.)

来源

with the Fine Art Society, London, 1951.

展览

London, The Fine Art Society, Early English Water-Colours and Drawings, Winter 1951, no. 12.

刻印

Lithograph, inscribed 'Puerto del Vino JFL 1833'.

拍品专文

Lewis toured Spain from the summer of 1832 until April 1834; he was in Granada from September to November 1832. He used drawings made there for two publications: Lewis's Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra, 1835, and Lewis's Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character, 1836.
The Puerto del Vino stands on the south side of the Plaza de los Aljibes (Square of the Cisterns); it is so called because the space on the ground floor was used to house wine from Alcalá. It was built for Muhammad II (1272-1302) of the Nasrid Dynasty, though the eastern façade, seen here, was rebuilt under Muhammad V (1354-1391).
For a drawing of the man on the donkey on the right, see lot 122.