Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- graphic artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Date made
- 1881
- Credit Line
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- watercolor (part material)
- graphite (part material)
- Measurements
- sheet: 35.7 cm x 25.4 cm; 14 1/16 in x 10 in
- Object Name
- painting
- watercolor
- Object Type
- Watercolor
