2-751-010 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Actual state of the Colours', 1907. Interior decoration in the palace of the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, which had been allowed to fall into a state of disrepair. It has since been extensively restored. The buildings mainly dates from the 14th century. Colour plate 44 from "The Alhambra: being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration" by Albert F. Calvert. [John Lane, London & New York, 1907]